but you couldn't fight for american democracy overseas without fighting for equal citizenship on the home front. this became a fundamental and core principle for many mexican-american, african-american and other folks. there were some successes. in civil rights during the war. franklin delano roosevelt, president during the initial years of world war ii signed executive order 8802 that banned discrimination in the workplace and called for fair employment practices. and fair housing opportunities. there were also movements against and resistance to civil rights progress. i remember, we had mexicans becoming a larger portion of american urban fop lagss, we had african-americans migrating internally. to big cities across the country. and eventually by the time we get to the end of the war and even during the war as it goes on year by year, we have black and brown veterans returning to their old lives expect iing equality. and there are responses to this. and racism and discrimination and lack of opportunities. and the entrenchment, not just of jim crow segregation against african-america

wartime american democracy is not the kind of democracy that afforded mexican-american youth to wear what they wanted to wear without getting beaten. wartime democracy did not allow them that kind of freedom and expression. we're going to get into this a we will get into this a lot more in the second half of class today when we watch a film on the zoot suit riots but i do want to wrap up with an argument that we should have seen coming . if we were alive in los angeles in 1942 and 43 around the time of sleepy lagoon in august 1942 and the zoot suit riots, the writing was on the wall. one of the ways that we know this in hindsight as historians is that we can go to the archives of the u.s. navy and there is a stack of records in which sailors who were on leave or out for a night on the town in los angeles and got into a square measure two or three or four with the zoot suitors. leading up to the rights themselves and they would go back to base and file a report with their superiors and the shore patrol. we can look at the records and even though we have to take them with a huge grain o

christian: the russian military was behind the latest attempt to disrupt american democracy. katty: it is increasingly left to tech companies to protect elections, which leaves britain's foreign secretary urging the e.u. to increase sanctions on moscow. and brexit enters its final phase, but judging from what the negotiators said today, there is still a lot of differences to overcome. christian: also, no one has run faster than

it's just hilarious when i hear that funny pictures can demand american democracy. plus nato develops a game to teach players how to spot fake news but critics say it's simply a propaganda tool. refugees in jordan are being required to hand over biometric data in order to gain access to aid and food journalist from the red fish group investigate the ethical concerns around the practice. the fundamental principle that we go by is informed consent remember that we couldn't do it without it. and german sportswear giant adidas says it will no longer work with the arabian football federation just a month after rival nike did the same. a very warm welcome to the program from the whole crew here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us for a global news update this hour. the u.s. senate intelligence committee met on wednesday to talk about the threats posed by misinformation campaigns run by foreign states and one issue of particular concern seemed to be the supposed invasion of social media by russian means russia's foreign minister reacted by didn't dismissing the disc

in the first mission it's just the latter is when i hear that on the pictures come to mind american democracy. plus nato develops a game to teach players how to spot fake news but critics say it's simply a propaganda tool. a biometric data of millions of refugees in jordan is being used as a way to unlock food and aid journalists from the redfish group investigates the ethical concerns around the practice a fundamental principle of the legal blood is an. eye for the other side of the. what is the bill and german sportswear giant adidas says it will no longer work with the arabian football federation just a month after rival nike to the say. this is our to international coming to life from the russian capital where it's just turned four pm welcome to the program. the u.s. senate intelligence committee met on wednesday to talk about the threats posed by misinformation campaigns run by foreign states and one issue of particular concern seemed to be the supposedly invasion of social media by russian memes russia's foreign minister reacted by dismissing the discussions as absurd. move when you clo

american democracy also ahead on the program and nato develops a game to teach players how to fake news but critics say it's simply a propaganda tool. refugees in jordan are being required to hand over a biometric data to gain access to a. journalist from the red fish group investigate the ethical concerns are a. fundamental principle. of the. german sports where a giant. will no longer work with the indian football federation just a month after rival nike did the same. live from our international news channel in moscow this is r.t. good to have your company on the internet only our top story the u.s. senate intelligence committee met stay for a hearing on the changing nature of online influence campaigns by foreign powers on one issue a particular concern seems to be the spread of means on social media that can be traced back to moscow we asked the russian foreign minister for his thoughts on the talks. when you look it's just hilarious when i hear that funny pictures can undermine american democracy i think that it's just paranoia that goes off the scale it's not respectable for ameri

the bush machine will it's just hilarious when i hear that funny pictures can undermine american democracy. nato develops a game to teach players how to spot fake news but critics say it's simply a propaganda tool. plus the biometric data of millions of refugees in jordan is being used as a way to unlock food and a journalist from the redfish group investigate the ethical concerns around the practice fundamental principle but when we go by is in form called the number that we're going to do it i don't know. what it is. and german sportswear giant adidas says it will no longer work with iranian football federation the same month after rival my team did the say. this is our to international bring your global news update this hour welcome to the part of. the u.s. senate intelligence committee met on wednesday to talk about the threats posed by misinformation campaigns run by foreign states and one issue of particular concern seem to be the supposed invasion of social media by russia means russia's foreign minister reacted by dismissing the discussions as absurd. didn't. move when it was smash

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question that kept coming up over and over again, whether the president takes the threat to american democracy seriously. >> the president has made it clear -- >> reporter: it was a show of force as the white house and now top administration officials from the director of national intelligence to the national security adviser to the fbi director to ensure they are ready to combat russian interference. >> we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. >> reporter: director of national intelligence dan coats insisted the order is coming from the top. >> the president has specifically directed us to make the matter of the election meddling and securing our election process a top priority. >> reporter: homeland security secretary described a grave threat. >> our democracy itself is in the cross hairs. free and clear elections are the cornerstone of our democracy and it has been clear they have been to sew discord by adversaries. >> reporter: all the talk in stark contrast with past statements most notably his meeting with vladimir putin.

to get their message out because they have a bias and it's deeply disturbing at a threat to american democracy russia's foreign minister says washington's paranoia over alleged russian meddling and american elections is off the scale that's after a senate intelligence committee met to discuss how to counter russia and other countries and their alleged attempts to interfere in the u.s. domestic affairs in the apartment go joins me live with more on this what was the reaction from russia's foreign ministry that. jacqueline hi well first of all just want to say a few words about what's happening in the u.s. we are seeing hearings after hearings more and more stuff like that more and more people having to testify and all this is happening in places like the cell a senate intelligence committee so we can see very serious people sorting out very serious government and state affairs and what they're doing is they are all over social media digging for stuff and they are finding stuff if you can say so here's one finding the russians are increasingly counting on social media in their meddling and their

it's just hilarious when i hear that funded pictures can undermine american democracy i think that's just paranoid that goes off the scale it's not respectable for american lawmakers to make a sensation out of nothing when not the ones who invented social media and when not the ones who insisted to making social media open to everybody. now there doesn't seem to be a lot of solid evidence being presented however the avalanche of accusations seems to be unfolding a lot of allegations are being made and americans are being told that they should be very very worried about russia's possible role in the upcoming midterm elections live from new york city this hour kill up and thank you. all right moving on you cannot look at help learning how to navigate through on line fake news from an unlikely source nato has launched a facebook game to teach people how to sort fact from fiction unless the see a church tried her hand out it. welcome to nato's new online weapon against misinformation it's the news hero i promised myself to report only the truth join me on my quest to filter the news some

score political victories was as easy as it was dangerous, and was and is a tangible threat to american democracy. the democracy that he gave every bit of his life to. if i may, with your indulgence, read from senator mccain's last speech from this room. on july 25th, 2017, bearing the fresh wounds from his last battle, senator mccain stood in this chamber, thinking of himself or not thinking of himself, but of his country he exhorted, pleaded, cajoled all of us to shake to our senses, reject the prevailing ugliness that seized the capital. one last time he was standing alone to do what was right. in a sure sign of just how desperate he was, he even appealed to our decency and to our reason, qualities that seem to have long fled washington. that day last summer he said in part, quote, we are servants of a great nation, a nation conceived in liberty and dedicate today the proposition that all men were created equal. more people have lived free and prosperous lives here than in any other nation. we have acquired unprecedented wealth and power because of our governing principles, and because our gov

when you put a smile it's just hilarious when i hear that funded pictures can demand american democracy i think that's just paranoid that goes off the scale it's not respectable for american lawmakers to make a sensation out of nothing when the ones who invented social media and when not the one soon says to the making social media open to everybody. so those who are sitting there and do you see talking russian meddling over and over are certain that the russians are carrying on with their attempts to undermine us democracy and they're saying now they have a new target in the midterm elections in america in twenty team and we're also hearing that moscow is not only using the traditional ways through facebook or twitter but also all kinds of other platforms the likes of read it or pinterest where they post more and more russian made names. i cyber attacks remain us remain a core part of moscow's arsenal content is created tested and hosted on platforms such as you tube reddit and pinterest its push to twitter and facebook with their standing audiences in the hundreds of millions and it's

russia remains a threat to american democracy — the stark message from president trump's national securityeam. we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try and weaken and divide the united states. apple is valued at $1 trillion, making it worth more than many of the world's major economies. and they're celebrating now — but these lottery winners saw their ticket ripped up as they were about to claim a huge jackpot. hello, this is bbc news with duncan golestani. the president of zimbabwe, emmerson mnangagwa of the governing zanu—pf party, has been declared the victor in monday's presidential elections. mr mnangagwa won just under 51% of the vote, against 44% for nelson chamisa of the opposition movement for democratic change alliance, the mdc. they rejected the results and said it would be challenged in court. fergal keane sent this report from harare. after a wait in which the country was plunged into crisis, at last, the moment of decision. the votes received by mnangagwa emmerson of zanu—pf party are more than half the number of votes cast in the presidential electi

and during the communist era, th number one goal was the destruction and degradation of american democracy and parliamentary democracies throughout europe. and so i believe that putin saw this as an opportunity, the information revolution and social media revolution, as a way of using russian hybrid warfare and information warfare techniques to literally dismantle democracy. >> host: and part of the objective there, it seems to me, is twofold. one is to weaken a potential competitor or adversary by weakening our values and our democracy, but it's also to diminish the appeal of democracy for his own population. >> guest: absolutely. >> host: right? >> guest: absolutely. i mean, his -- you know, again, we had that period, the post-soviet period where people were very frustrated with freedom, right? liberty. it was very i wouldn't say clever, but it was intelligent of them to recognize that they could harness that dissatisfaction and change that internally to the point where all of the freedom and democracy which was being expounded outside of their nation and which would grossly, grossly dam

except in a riters interview yesterday when referring back to the 2016 attacks on american democracy doubt back in his language and say if it's russia. he won't commit that it is despite the unanimous assessment that russia did attack the american electoral system in 2016. so i understand that the -- you are right, they have taken actions. there have been sanctions, we saw a show of force of the top officials. where is the president of the united states on this other than not wanting to touch it because he's afraid it discredits him? >> we know he met behind closed doors with vladimir putin and they talked for a long time so one could surmise that either he didn't threaten or warn vladimir putin in some kind of convincing way not to do this or, b, vladimir putin doesn't fear the consequences of what the action of attacking the u.s. election system might be. he's not acting scared. >> and there's so much about that meeting that we don't know what was said and took place but donald trump wouldn't be the first president that vladimir putin was not afraid of on this front. barack obama s

but i do know the russians have a plan and their plan involves dismantling american democracy, and they intend to use americans to do it. and they're doing pretty well. >> host: so, we talked about the incredibly important role that the intelligence community professionals will flay combating this, talk about the important role that members of congress must play in standing up, others in the executive branch who work in the executive branch, the important rule of the judiciary. our democratic institutions. but you always talk about what an ordinary american can do and talk about the notion of vote plus one. >> guest: right. there's only one way to beat this game. there's only one way to stop this plan to break democracy. it really -- it's a brilliant plan. you just -- when you break it out, it's a james bond evil villain plan. this is the sort of thing -- listen, how do we destroy democracy so i can become from a billion area to a trillionaire? to make more money? well, you have influence people to vote away their own rights by voting in leaders who will not uphold the constitution. we

the tech giant says the russian military was behind the latest attempt to disrupt american democracy.asingly left to tech companies to protect western elections. which leaves britain's foreign secretary urging the eu to increase european sanctions on moscow — even as the uk is about to leave the union. and brexit enters its final phase butjudging from what the eu negotiator said today, there are still a lot of differences to overcome. also on the programme... no one has run faster that usain bolt. than usain bolt. but can he do it with a ball at his feet? the eight—time gold medal winner is down underfor an indefinite

whyd you go so over the top in flattering a guy who isr cl out to sabotage american democracy? robert: one of the re this all happened, molly, is because the president has this cloud he calls it. the cloudf the russian investigation hanging over him. and he took some new steps this week. heweeted early, a few days ago, "a terrible situation. attorney general jeff sessions should stop thisigged wit hunt right now before it continues to stain our country any further." yet as the president tweets his lawyers such as former new york yor rudy guiliani are engaged in negotiations with special counsel robert mueller about a presidential sit down. >> i'm not going to give you a lot of hope it is going to ha en. we're still negotiating. robert: we've been here for weeks now with guiliani pushing the ddline up o this decision about an interview. but you think about the president rht now. he's facing this question over an interview. he is facing all of terse dit challenges on the russia probe. how is that influencing what's happening on russ? molly: i think it's always been obvious the cr

are demanding citizenship and equal right, they are coming up with a whole new complexion of american democracy and it is very contested in the 19th century and continues to be contested today. who is the american citizen? should people have equal rights? you would imagine that these questions were settled in the civil war but, in fact, they are extremely contested in the period after the war. so you are saying in demanding equality, black people are helping to reconstruct american democracy. that was the idea. but at the end of the book that he writes about reconstruction has a chapter called propaganda of history. he takes the dunning school too task. he quotes them and extremely racist views about black people. and the fact that they literally -- you know, he said they were bad history. they just wrote what southerners said about reconstruction and pretty much reproduced that. he actually has a wonderful quote that i'm going to read out to you. he says in his book, in this chap text the propaganda of history, the magnificent figures of charles sumner and thaddeus stevens, these were the radi

american democracy does not come out of the west, except in a monday and since that if the west is states, you will have to vote. but there is a component in jacksonian democracy which does not come out of the west. it is an updated version of the jeffersonian resistance to federalists and the domination of the federalists, but by the jacksonian., the resistance to this domination is no longer centered among farther -- among farmers, it is centered among workers. the factories, the mills, the cities. those are in the east. just like how philadelphia, new york and boston represent the cutting edge of full -- of philosophical change, that is where the class struggle first takes shape. they pit the working class against the employing class. i think we saw it is a class conflict maintained within certain bounds. it is not a once and for all fight to the death, to conquer the other side. the business community and everybody else, but in particular the working class. instead it is a struggle that creates a cyclical and political , in a society that is capitalist. the democratic side sometimes g

calling it a witch-hunt and wanting to end the investigation into putin's interference with american democracy. >> joe, in fact, here is some important pieces here. right? three men two years ago were at start of this invest sgigs russian interference. james comey, head of the fbi, number two, andrew mccabe and now peter strzok, owl three fired by the president or pushed out under pressure from the president. so three people who led and oversaw and permitted this investigation into russian interference in our country, in our elections, are all now gone and by the way also as you know were overseeing the investigation to hillary clinton. if you're going to pull back a little and think about the facts here, it's undoubted that the investigations of these two people, hillary clinton and donald trump, probably helped donald trump more in the beginning than they do now. and yet here he is calling witch-hunt and going after these people and inserting himself into a personnel decision, and it is something that gives you a bit a foreboding. >> meanwhile, a federal court, in washington, a fourth federa

the making of the american character and of american society is the primitive accumulation at the expense of the indians. that's what makes jack sewn yan democracy and we look where that's happening which is the southwest. where is abe lynincoln in all o this? the kind of quintessential american. he's on a little small farm in -- >> what year? >> what year, yeah. in southern indiana or southern illinois and espousing later on a kind of vision and a much ennobled vision of the self-made man of networking for others and then coming into your own and then eventually -- of the ladder of opportunity which he describes as kind of the essence and the affirmative and morally good essence of northern society. is that capitalism under another name? >> yeah. if we call that capitalism, is it less attractive? i'm just playing with words here. how would we -- i'm tempted to say is it possible for all these different people to be right? we can try to tackle that question. if schlesinger -- if we accept not necessarily his larger claims to having to explain everything but if we accept his basic narrative, do we have to say roggin is if not necessarily wrong is

but i do know they have a plan and it involves dismantling american democracy, and they intend to use americans to do that and they are doing pretty well. >> host: so we talked about the incredibly important role that the intelligence community professionals will play in combating. we talked about the role that members of congress must play in standing up and others in the executive branch, the important role of the judiciary in our democratic institutions. but you also talk about what ordinary americans can do and talk about the notion of both plus one. a >> guest: there's only one way to stop this. when you break it out it is a james bond evil villain and plan to. how do we destroy democracy so that i can become from a billionaire to a trillionaire to make more money. well, you influence people to vote away thei the way their owy voting in leaders who will not uphold the constitution. can we do that? yes, you can by harnessing the information system that we have into changing their mind about what is real and what is not. you can say everything that comes out of trusted journalism i

americans in the drama about reconstruction. and essay to the history in which black folk played in an attempt to reconstruct democracy in america from 1860 through 1880. from the civil war to well after reconstruction is over. it's published in 1935. he not only centered african americans in the story, he is saying, it's not just a matter of reconstruction for the union, it's a matter of reconstructing american democracy, it's a value , it's an ideal. and black people are demanding citizenship and equal rights they are imagining interracial democracy we live in today. it's coming up with a new conception of american democracy and it continues to be contested until today. who is an american citizen? should people have equal rights? you would imagine that these questions were settled in the civil war. but in fact, they are extremely contested in the period after. he says in demanding quality black people are helping to reconstruct american democracy. that was his idea. but more importantly, at the end of the book he writes about reconstruction, it has a chapter called the propaganda of history. where he really takes the dunning s

, tried to undermine american democracy, you don't end that investigation.fact, if you need guidance from rudy giuliani, just go back and on just about every topic see what he said back when republicans were indicting or trying to indict bill clinton. >> giuliani went on to challenge the special counsel's motive for seeking an interview. and suggested mueller will soon be the one under scrutiny. >> we offered him an opportunity to do a form of questioning. he can say yes or no. we can do it. if he doesn't want to do it, he knows the answers to every question that he wants to ask. he's going to ask him, did you tell comey to go easy on flynn? no. why do you want to get him under oath? because you want to trap him into originalry. t perjury. >> he has all the answers. they're not going to change. the president is not going to change his testimony. so stop the nonsense. you are trying to trap him into perjury because you don't have a case. >> i've never been involved in an investigation on either side. that's more illegitimate than this one that is so obviously

american democracy she noted must be truly inclusive. all citizens should enjoy prosperity and equal rights and find meaning in pleasure and be an active participant in a morally sound and robust society. in together, those citizens would willingly risked their lives to refute the repulsive notion that fascism represented any kind of future. the star witness for the proponent was the man i do love, wendell wilkie, the indiana businessman who'd been defeated by roosevelt in the 1940 election. when the election results came in on that election night, roosevelt who was just 100 yards from right here in the dining room of springwood said i'm glad a one, but i'm sorry wendel lost in fact, wilkie and roosevelt were not very different. they were both solid internationalist and anti-fascists who are totally committed to the survival of democracy. they were both well educated and they both had a moral conscience in wilkie was a pioneer in civil rights. wilkie told the senate committee that american and british democracies could not hope to defend

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pennsylvania, president trump touted the helsinki summit with putin and talked about attacks on american democracy. >> we got along really well. by the way, that's a good thing not a bad thing. now we're being hindered by the russian hoax. everybody said, wow, that was great. a couple hours later, i started hearing reports that they wanted me to walk up. they wanted me to walk up and go like this. son of a -- >> for you wondering how the president may box. you're welcome. hours earlier, key members of the national security team appeared in the white house briefing room to warn the country the russian election interference is ongoing. >> in regards to the russian involvement in the mid-term elections, we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. >> russia attempted to interfere with the last election and continues to engage and malign influence operations to this day. >> our democracy itself is in the crosshairs. free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. it is clear they are the target of our adversaries to sow discor

americans this this whole drama of reconstruction. read the subtitle. an essay to the history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in america from 1860 to 1880. so from the civil war to well after reconstruction is over in 1880 and he published this in 1935. he not only centered african-americans in this story, he is saying this is not just a matter of reconstructing the union, it's a matter of reconstructing american democracy. it's value, it's ideals. and when black people are demanding citizenship and equal rights they are imagining the interracial democracy that we live in today so they are coming up with a whole new conception of american democracy and it is very contested in the 19th century and continues to be contested until today. you know, who is an american citizen? should people have equal rights? you would imagine that these questions were settled with the civil war, but, in fact, they are extremely contested in the period after the war and afterwards. so he's saying in demanding equality black people are helping to reconstruct american democracy. that was his idea. but more importantly dubois at the en

and about american democracy, rathe preservation and extensio of american democracy to the world. the irony of that of course is that in 1919, we speaking about democracy in a town run by -- [laughter] patricia o'toole portrays the man who constantly retreated into himself. at crucial moments. in this, he is not unlike her brilliant portrayal of henry adams. she treats them with great i empathy and as a man of deep faith in both democratic and christian values. servant leadership. he believed in servant leadership with all that sometimes comes to me in which my experience is usually a very partial humility. which it was, with woodrow wilson. also pictures the opposition, possibly excluding -- who was unforgiving of the man who deprived him of his third term. but lodge gets full and fair treatment. and then in paris, after the war, also, are treated will. it is hard not to admire a guy wwho, after, wilson released 1 points, said, in god only -- [laughter] the real problem of course is not the number of points are and do the impossible idealism but the attempt to sell the inevitable

russia remains a threat to american democracy — the stark message from president trump's national securityhe stories that are making the headlines in the media across the world. we begin with the financial times, and no surprise its uk front page features the first interest rate rise here in a decade. we'll look at what that means for the economy. let's move on to vox. it explains how pope francis has made the rare move of updating catholic teaching, it now calls the death penalty inadmissible. to the south china morning post now and the paper leads with a study carried out on the hong kong metro which shows how germs spread across the network and how they vary depending on the time of day. british tabloid the daily mirror claims an exclusive. it says amazon has declared its lowest corporation tax in five years in the uk — despite soaring sales. and we'll explain their other main story — how a scottish couple had their winning lottery ticket ripped up in front of them. and finally, the sun — appropriately named there — looks at the heatwave hitting europe. so let's begin. stephanie hare's

but where those thirty two accounts influential enough to undermine american democracy in fact most of the spot of materials have zero to ten followers and in the scope of about fourteen months ran one hundred fifty ads for approximately eleven thousand dollars if someone is against the u.s. immigration policy which some of these anti ice accounts apparently were maybe they would like to conceal their identity maybe they're afraid of us authorities it's a strange thing are we allowed to be privately recorded these private us without people assuming that somehow there are some. hand meddling in things it's very strange but the real question is what does it mean that someone is trying to sow divisions among americans are we not allowed to disagree with each other on fundamental issues like immigration and other things and i looked at some of the pages and some of them were sort of pro-feminist women shouldn't have to cook for their for their men i mean how is this supposed to is the russian effort to sort of visions americans have always disagreed that's the nature of soc

well funded adversaries but where those thirty two accounts influential enough to undermine american democracy in fact most of the spot of materials had zero to ten followers and in the scope of about fourteen months ran one hundred fifty ads for approximately eleven thousand dollars well here's one of the posts quote we must learn what we have learned because a condition mind cannot comprehend the infinite but let's get down to the nitty gritty who is guilty we're still in the very early stages of our investigation and don't have all the facts including who may be behind this in the statement facebook reiterated several times that they were unable to identify the culprit and even admitted that they quote may never be able to identify the source with the apparent goal of amplifying already existing conspiratorial narratives the mainstream media it's playing not an ounce of creativity went on to blame the usual suspect russian actors continue to try to disrupt metal infiltrate the u.s. political debate if not the elections themselves well russia is interfering there continuing to interfere russ

in other headlines means hacking and spies other threats american democracy faces from russia during the upcoming elections that's according to u.s. intelligence agencies from. just gone three i'm here in moscow watching r.t. international i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program we start with news from the united states where three people have been arrested on sunday ahead of a right wing rally and a counter protest in berkeley california and. according to local police those arrested had items and protests in their possession including metal pipes baseball bats and knives earlier this week two groups of rights activists announced plans to protest at berkeley park in response up to four hundred counter protesters gathered at eleven am and marched along streets downtown towards the site of the proposed rally some of the marchers were dressed in black the typical uniform of activists last year berkeley experienced similar protests which led to violent clashes. the canadian government has acknowledged the disturbing practice stating back to the postwar period when single mothers were f

to your poor special it's just hilarious when i hear that funny pictures come to mind american democracy. nato develops a game to teach players how to spot fake news the critics say it's simply a propaganda tool. refugees in jordan are being required to hand over biometric data in order to gain access to aid and food journalist from the red fish group investigate the ethical concerns or.

about threats to american democracy apparently faces from russia during the upcoming midterm elections that's according to the u.s. and teligent community. welcome to the weekly here on r.t. international the sunday program with the top stories of the week today. the canadian government in its report called the shame has acknowledged a disturbing practice dating back to the postwar period when unmarried women were forced to give up their babies those babies with and given to married couples in a bid to promote to promote traditional families some women were even tricked into giving up their children we spoke to one of the victims this is they found out i was pregnant they mark my records baby for adoption. i was a fifteen year old girl pregnant i was pregnant on a sexual assault. and. there was no conversation about with me about how i got pregnant all they cared about was the fact that i was. pregnant and that i had a baby that they could. take. a healthy born haired blue eyed beautiful baby. you will forget the child go home get married and have other children or if not get a puppy.

syndicated columnist, jonah goldberg argued tribalism, populism and nationalism are threatening american democracy. he is interviewed by john podhoretz, editor of commentary magazine. this is one hour. >> jonah goldberg, in your book, you posit that everything we take for granted, every freedom that we have, every economic advantage that we possess as americans, all of these are actually a radical new development in history of humankind, number one. and number two, it is unnatural that western civilization as we understand it, or contemporary american western democratic civilization is unnatural. what do you mean by that? >> well, first of all, great to see you, john. [laughter] >> wow isi was following the br lamb model of that we don't know each other. and possibly exchanging insults on twitter and all of that. but -- >> i didn't want that. >> right. part of what i'm trying to do in the book is, not so much to say i have all the right facts and have the perfect version of what happened in human history and all of that.i'm not claiming that. i was doing something a little different. i'm asking pe

russia is an existential threat to american democracy. the single dumbest >> tucker: well, you have almost certainly heard it once or twice. or 1,001 times. russia is an existential threat to american democracy. maybe the single dumbest talking point of all time.e. but it's an article of faith in the democratic party and so it's repeated robotically by the servants in the media. here is an example. >> the democracy is at risk. russia attacked our election. >> russians are equal opportunity malevolent actors. >> the one person he hasn't blamed is the person responsible. vladimir putin. >> the russians are once again waging a campaign to interfere in our elections. >> tucker: well, the whole topic is like an i.q. test. you saw some of the kids who failed. how about this. if a few russians buying facebook ads threatens our democracy -- that is what they are telling us -- how about the threat of facebook itself?k or other tech giants? representatives from a dozen tech companies including facebook and twitter held a sec wet meeting to discuss

democracy. it does not recognize human rights. americans have a tendency to say russia is a democracy. we did it in 1917 and we were wrong. in the 1980's. putin leaves when office, people will say, think on almighty, russia can be a democracy again. become competent overnight. democracy is a process. democracy takes a great long time to build your -- build. 1917 allowed us to face the question whose democracy is it? it is a question we have been working on and trying to answer ever since. i will leave it at that. thank you very much for your attention. [applause] questions? mentioned that the united states supported the allies in europe, britain, france, and they did not do so with germany. they did not selling whole lot of germany. is that correct? >> that is absolutely correct. the reason was there is a reddish naval campaign -- naval blockade. >> was there anyone in the united states saying we should be selling supplies to germany as well as the allies? >> not really. there were some sales that went to scandinavia and were transshipped to germany as a way of avoiding the british blo

don't think we are terminally ill but throughout our lives have made the mistake to take in american democracy for granted. most of us have not worried about it. and the media doesn't think much of irresponsible behavior. because democracy can die. it is clear there are warning signs. so that's why it's really important one from the democratic failures to manage to turn things around. >> there are two forms of capitalism. it is a whole different form of capitalism from the rustbelt. maybe going 15 or 20 times the last 20 years i would go to the back and see all the poverty and the disconnect. with the problems of addiction and i i come back to cambridge and say go to ohio and he say no they have no idea. so i was not surprised at all with his election because of the anger in the rustbelt. i always say is the money stupid they're not making much money and they are ignored. spee17 . . . .

but who are those three to accounts influential enough to undermine american democracy in fact most of the spot of materials have zero to ten followers and in the scope of about fourteen months ran one hundred fifty ads for approximately eleven thousand dollars if someone is against the u.s. immigration policy which some of these anti ice accounts apparently were maybe they would like to see over identity maybe they're afraid of us authorities it's a strange thing are we allowed to be privately recorded in private without people assuming that somehow they're simply. unhand meddling in things it's very strange but the real question is what does it mean that someone is trying to sow divisions among americans are we not allowed to disagree with each other on fundamental issues like immigration and other things and i looked at some of the pages and some of them were sort of pro-feminist women shouldn't have to cook for their for their men i mean how is this supposed to is the russian effort to sort of visions americans have always disagreed that's the nature of society of a