join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics school doesn't this i'm show business i'll see you then. in this thursday's headline saved from the streets only to be placed with how to files a damning study in germany says vulnerable children were being fostered by sex abusers and that the authorities probably knew some of the victims have told they don't think they'll ever recover. every day was mental and physical mistreatment we were forced to do things we wouldn't normally do because we were threatened with being destroyed we go to work and we become aware that we are just a pointless misery. a protester attacks police in new york during a march against gun crime several officers are injured including the police chief

who knelt in solidarity with other protesters last month. also this hour a transatlantic data sharing deal gets a thumbs down from europe's top court the 2nd such back to flounder over privacy concerns from far reaching american surveillance. and taking a stand a statue of a black lives matter activists is briefly erected in the english city of bristol bronze to a tour of slave trade or was toppled weeks ago but locals have mixed feelings. i don't think personally i think you should study this stuff to get the right to be individually like the peace or should it be about this let me just push touch of the world what you know. you're watching our 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. for years and germany vulnerable young boys

had been placed in the foster care of pedophile met a damning study by huddles haim university also says the authorities either ignored evidence of abuse or complicit in letting it continue cases are as recent as 2003 and stem back to the 1960 s. peter hall there has been speaking with some of the victims who came forward. decades of abuse carried out by those put in a position to protect the most vulnerable in society for 30 years starting in the 1970 s. . place children in the care of a convicted paedophile named for its age i spoke to 2 of his victims to protect their right to anonymity they'll be named only. and marco. our daily lives are dominated by instructions we were shielded from the outside world like a sect most of the time we faced violence if we wanted to go out or meet someone

else we were intimidated and told these people were bad should have nothing to do with them if we wanted to go anyway we were forbidden every day it was mental and physical mistreatment and we're only realizing this now we were forced to do things we wouldn't normally do because we were threatened that was our life the worse the treatment the more you felt this person was important to you every day with this man was a fight for survival and the fight to preserve yourself what makes this more troubling is that the lives of these men as well as essentially being. as part of an experiment. rated psychologist helmet and even after his death in 2010 was regarded as they found. he was in effect little more than a match maker putting neglected children into the care of predators. we learned about this experiment called in 2017 my thought was this can't be true i was not

a mere product of chance i was deliberately selected by the berlin branch of the s.p.d. party the ruling party at the time that hired a mercenary to destroy our lives in an experiment when we heard about it we felt. that the names of those responsible are missing but there must be a further. their investigation in my opinion this is one of the greatest crimes of the post-war era the fact that it was really an experiment is shameful and very humiliating it was tolerated for decades no one ever came along and asked how we were doing life with our foster father was going nobody ever came over to check. those responsible are still sitting in offices or enjoying their pensions they're trying to hide behind a statute of limitations to torpedo another investigation is shameful that the perpetrator the organization is hiding behind legal quibbles to avoid shedding

light on it this criminal organization should not be behind the investigation the care system in germany has changed dramatically since scandalous time when it comes to who can act as a foster parent authors of a study into the can flourish experiment of told r.t. that there is no way his crimes were carried out without the welfare office being directly involved in germany of course to care is the responsibility holmes always grew up on just 8 observation the things that occurred in foster homes we examined could not have happened without the knowledge of officials in the us welfare authorities there has never been this state investigation into the actions of kempler and his experiment in senator's told us they are pushing for a nationwide examination to look at the real scale of the abuse since we have nationwide connections further research can be limited only to berlin the center

for education youth and family has said that she wants to submit an application to the conference of ministers to deal with sexual violence and foster homes the victims of abuse say the knowledge of the government makes them complicit in the crimes and in moscow of pushing for legal action today after having been failed by the authorities then. the berlin senate is 100 percent. involved the bird in senate initiated it and then tolerated it it's already been admitted verbal leap but not legally from the very beginning the only thing that mattered to them was how to keep the problem small thing criminal charges were put forward we file charges in the senate kept in touch with us since then there's been no contact with the senate it's impossible to build up such an organization on this scale without state help. we expect justice our lawyers have been destroyed we are on able to work and we have become aware that we are just a pile of misery we were put in this situation by the government deliberately it

was not an accident as we thought until now it is a matter of course that the senate will make amends the senate has offered as $10000.00 euros in return for us taking no further action against it the names of those responsible and the consequences for these people are still missing as long as it stays like that things are not over this is a particularly her ruling story exploitation and failure to protect the states was expressly directed to protect. new york police officers endured a vicious attack by a protester on wednesday while they were supervising a mostly peaceful march against gun crime they were assaulted when marchers met counter protesters on the brooklyn bridge the officers were making an arrest when an unidentified man is seen running towards the officers and then beating them with taking the n.y.p.d. says 3 of its officers sustained injuries including

a police chief last month showed his solidarity with other processors by taking in the. uniform moment of chief terrance monaghan of the new york city police department kneeled in solidarity with protesters a. retired philadelphia police captain ray lewis says he's worried that officers are now seen as the people's enemy by protesters. there are obviously much more concern nowadays with being attacked due to the actions of other officers because there is such a thing called the halo effect and that is now every officer is being asserted on as brutal and an enemy of the minority population the fact is these officers for its facts totally unnecessarily what disappointed me with this is none of the other protestors even pushed this guy away from the ground focused

weapon you want to win over. empathy for your movement. do the right thing justice is for everybody this illusion to violent protest is to confront the reason you have violent protests confront the economic disparities can confront the job lack of job opportunity confront the lack of education for black people these are the so used that go into these protests. top court has rejected a data sharing agreement that allows big tech firms to transfer in european users' information to the united states it's after a privacy complaint was raised over far reaching u.s. surveillance and doesn't entirely mean an end to transatlantic data sharing though the latest we have from charlotte. well this deal between the e.u. and us over the transfer of data has been thrown out now by the e.u.

top court it's been a longstanding issue that was originally a case that was brought against facebook and this is because one privacy advocate was unhappy that u.s. law means that companies in the u.s. can hand over data to the n.s.a. to the f.b.i. even it's used by thousands of tech companies based in the u.s. already so match rams he has one its case is the e.u. will not change its fundamental rights to please the n.s.a. the only way to overcome this clash is for the us to introduce solid privacy rights for all people this judgement is not because of a limit to data transfers but the consequence of u.s. surveillance laws and today this ruling by the european court of justice has been welcomed by did show rights advocates we have repeatedly highlighted legal and policy developments that called into question the validity of the arrangement

including enhanced u.s. surveillance the childers regard for human rights globally this is been a longstanding issue that has been going through the courts for many years 1st of all it was about a day to agreement between the new and u.s. called safe harbor which created all the way back in the early infancy of the internet back in 1995 now following revelations made by whistleblower and former n.s.a. employee edward snowden over the scope of surveillance and the leaks that were taking place in the u.s. one austrian citizen became particularly concerned about his privacy and he lodged a complaint back in 2013 this is much rems now he took this case to court and he won as a result the original agreement called safe harbor was thrown out. but then the e.u. and us came up with

a new agreement the replacement of the commission has proposed to shield is basically safe harbor once again so is it a win is this the end of the case will sadly not because they are already mechanisms in place other mechanisms that have been used between the e.u. in us for the transfer of this sort of data so it seems like a win today from actually other digital rights campaigners but it seems that there is still a long fight ahead. privacy activists build new things with unlikely any similar data sharing agreement will ever be implemented and this decision is a big deal. this is a massive rebuke for the u.s. surveillance activities on a scale that we've never seen before this is a thought bigger really potentially than save all that went before it because this is the 2nd time it's been struck down and i don't think there's any way back. to put another arrangement in place that would be similar in fact they tried that

before brucey shield was very much just putting lipstick on a pig somebody once it's commonplace for almost all large communication in brazil information service providers in the u.s. the likes of facebook amazon google and others where they frequently hide information over to the n.s.a. or the cia the f.b.i. and that's exactly what this ruling is seeking to prevent but when we're actually sharing information messaging applications or on facebook where we just communicating with friends and family here in europe is there really any need for that data to leave the european jews go join america no there isn't. a new statue briefly appeared on a plant in the english port city of bristol where a few weeks ago the longstanding monument to a slave trader was thrown into the harbor

a statue of edward coast and it was torn down during a major anti-racism rally last month it was later retrieved private or unease and taken away now here's what went up in its place on wednesday at the statue of local campaigner general recreating the moment she stood on the plinth after that rally and raced her fist in the air and you're more than a few online cursed to here's what some thought about the statue. i think he's absolutely fantastic he's good for the people of bristol is good for but lives i don't think personally i think you should study this stuff he was a wreck he did legally. and i think as a democracy we should be able to walk by choose our direct take on those who disagree with the way that the polish the statue was taken down the track and in exactly one place and zipping through individually like the piece what we've seen in bristol to see that the 1st that she was taken down that started all of these things overruled people are happy the statue was gone there should have been

a debate about it just to put out there let me just let me push touch of you i want to you know get on. that new statue has since been taken down and put in a museum the city's mayor says there needs to be a democratic process for the people of bristol to decide the future of the plant but the party co-founder katherine blakelock says people taking it upon themselves to install a statue sets a dangerous precedent. to democrats i think the fact that they didn't apply for planning commission and they. put it up in the middle of the night shows you ashie well this movement is about this movement isn't about the people crystal the people up if they really wanted to they could apply to have planning permission to put this up they didn't it sets a trust to do and that a few people can decide that democracy does not matter anymore.

still had on our team a new chain of claims of sexual harassment emerges in russia leveled and leveled against a number of journalists on that and other stories after the short break. and when else should seem wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to seep out just to come after. and in detroit because the trail. went something to find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for and let it be an arms race in this spirit dramatic development the only loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. welcome back russian media is facing a resurgent me to chapter with a number of current and former journalists being accused of sexual harassment and other abuses are to sofitel or has the story. it started with a tweet it grew into a conversation about sexual assault and harassment on

a level and never seen before me too has raised up many people and brought many people down we now have a verdict in the harvey weinstein rape trial of one of hollywood's best known as kevin spacey the latest high profile star caught up in allegations actor anthony rapp accusing spacy of making a sexual advance at a party 30 years ago singer r. kelly has officially been charged of 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving young girls and it's also just one tweet which has now brought the movement to russia's shores there is one vile story about the social circuit 5 years ago those guys had a joke about the twitter chick she got drunk at a house party and was gang raped there. are some 2014 will every time he was passing the news room approached almost every guy including me trying to hug me to chance touch me below the waist whisper in my ear will your sporty i was read by

roseland at my house party in 2018 and he apologized 2 years after everyone was aware of the scale of the problem most of all i was shocked by friends who knew about it all and still kept finding out about him these accusations have grabbed attention because they involve names of people known to the russian public. is a high profile john list an editor of the website and became need an outlet founded and funded by businessman oligarch me haha to call ski facing scrutiny alongside him is his colleague entrées all the tough he denies any wrongdoing both have since resigned else why in the media wild allegations of wild around a face known to people since the ninety's a journalist up golf who most recently was presented of the t.v. channel rain he high. apologized saying times have changed and so have concept of

personal space these latest revelations have also read pulled into one of russia's largest banks bank and triggered an investigation into the conduct of 2 employees would take this charges very seriously and are interested in carrying out an objective assessment of what happened immediately after the publication the internal security services bourbon initiated internal inquiry both employees are suspended from their duties for the duration of the investigation it's not the 1st time that stories like this have risen up from the darkness here in russia a few years ago not the hash tag i'm not afraid to speak so thousands of women share their experiences of sexual violence but they failed to resonate on a national level will this be different only time and the conclusions of the investigations will tell by the way almost 3 years on from that for us to me to tweet it's clear that this is a movement that continues to spark conversations across all boundaries of space and

culture. facebook insists it works flat out to take down offensive content but when it comes to tracking down a far more sinister counseling to eisele there seems to be a problem a study by an anti extremism think tank has fallen hundreds of accounts have abated detection by exploiting technologies and loopholes allowing them to stay active for months. one technique was content masking mixing pro i saw material and videos with genuine content from news outlets like france 24 the b.b.c. and a number of others some videos were edited to begin with content that on the face of it seemed innocuous or bland eisel sympathizers also infiltrated common threads to share links to known jihadi sites and they coordinated raids on other facebook pages including the u.s. military. the report says the accounts also gloated about being able to play the

system researchers found almost 300 pro i saw accounts managing to slip past facebook's moderators site says it has 0 tolerance for terrorist propaganda and has now moved all of those accounts and are not law expert here cohen says it doesn't take much for harmful content to achieve its goal only indoctrination is extremely dangerous there are people who are addicted to the material in the more they watch it the more brainwashed they become and it is effectively a vicious cycle there so it is extremely dangerous anyone who is slightly susceptible to being brainwashed which is pretty much every teenager or every every growing out will to have you know few problems in issues in life it is enough for them to watch a couple of those videos to start becoming brainwashed and after that they just keep watching and watching and watching. then you end up. with young people being

indoctrinated and. effectively become to make generation of his fight. with billions of active users capable of reaching an audience around the globe sites like facebook struggle to stay on top of harmful content over the weekend it failed to stop a man in the u.k. from life streaming his suicide despite many people desperately trying to alert moderators it's not that up to 400 people watch the live stream which was later deleted and a statement facebook said it had provided the man with support documents following his initial post about his intention to take his own life you're going to get things facebook's attention is more swayed by policing political content and protecting users from harm. the matter of priorities the questions of facebook he's aware that he does it place its own resources and at facebook seem

to be extremely busy at the moment. content moderating in relation to political g.'s political affiliation so-called fake news. because these are popular subjects a bit they feel will enable them to score some points. residents in the ruined engine iraqi city of mosul have a new battle on their hands after merging from the shadow of what was the former stronghold of the self-proclaimed islamic state now they're having to deal with the pandemic just like all of us but for them it is a particularly tough i mean some are again risking their lives. now my job is to help people stay positive given the best available treatment and make sure they get through this as well as possible.

absolutely he had been and we want to make sure an 11 day a lockdown doesn't turn into something much more anger that. people have grown used to the daily risk of death there is a sense of fatigue we need to give people a sense of hope during the lockdown. that's all for this hour news wise but if you're looking for more ahead on over to our web

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