what about the ages you're seeing because social media campaign, along with video, the internet, tellsger generation. >> the younger generation is probably between 15 -- youngest from 15 to 25. >> reporter: new members are given cars, guns and money just for joining. women recruits are another priority target group for isis. >> western women. they come with their western passports. they're going to fall under a radar screen. >> reporter: while the world has come to associate isis with harrowing images like the execution of journalist james foley, global recruiting starts of isis show a softer side to the terrorist group. instead of violence and mayhem, messages of cheer and support. >> through the happiness we're feeling. >> reporter: recruitment efforts take money. not a problem for isis. >> they really have a lot of loan. they have huge resources in iraq and syria. they exhort taxation from businesses and so on. >> i'm from america. >> reporter: one u.s. citizen who bought into the message was this man, born and raised in florida. he is the first american suicide bomber. he bragged a

and iraq we look at the two pillars of the groups might explosion black market economy and the media campaign that's attracting new recruits and drives. the latest developments and a look back at the last seven days you watch from the weekly here on r.t. international. a group of russian soldiers detained in ukraine several days ago has been returned home ten paratroopers were captured six days ago when they claimed they unintentionally crossed the ukrainian border while on a routine patrol has been following the developments all ten russian paratroopers who were earlier detained by the ukrainian authorities have now been handed over to russia the group was patrolling the russian ukrainian border when an intentionally they crossed over at night at a section of the border that is not well signposted they were then intercepted by the ukrainian security services can from what we understand the release talks were complicated and difficult but it is important to note that border incidents like this are not uncommon early in august there were around four hundred ukrainian servicemen who crossed ove

rampage through syria and iraq we look at the two pairs of the groups might market economy on the media campaign that's attracting new recruits.

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we look at the two pillars of the groups might it's flourishing black market economy and the media campaign that's attracting new recruits in droves. i. know they're the latest developments and a look back at the last seven days you're watching a weekly here on r.t. international. now a group of russian soldiers detained in ukraine several days ago has been returned home empire troopers were captured six days ago when they claimed they unintentionally crossed the ukrainian border while on a routine patrol. has been following the developments all ten russian paratroopers who were earlier detained by the ukrainian authorities have now been handed over to russia the group was patrolling the russian ukrainian border when and intentionally they crossed over at night at a section of the border that is not well signposted they were then intercepted by the ukrainian security services can from what we understand the release talks were complicated and difficult but it is important to note that border incidents like this are not uncommon early in august there were around four hundred ukrainian service

and the last, i difference between the cdc media campaign tips from a former smoker and fda media campaign the real cost ? >> thank you very much. and i -- please feel free, if i bell regional of the was the last about, refresh my memory. as you noted, chairman, the campaign has been remarkably successful. if this figure who made a quick attempt. we also saw concurrently -- we are now in our third year. we have also seen doubling in calls to the national 1800 quit now telephone number. as much as a fivefold increase in visits to the website of a campaign. so we are very excited. we are particularly excited about the very specific information about quit a tent that we saw with the campaign. we also saw increases in nonsmokers, millions of homes said that they have actually talked to a loved one who smoked and encourage them to get help quitting. and i think one of the reasons that we were not surprised by these results is that we put a lot of work in up front, first reviewing all the information from other countries and states to my experiences, and then working with the chilly thousand smo

what about the ages you're seeing, because a social media campaign along with video, the internet, that tells me the younger generation. >> the generation is probably between as young as 15 people are going to about 25. >> reporter: new members are given cars, guns and money just for joining. women recruits are another priority target group for isis. >> it's western women, they come with their western passports, they're going to fall under a radar screen. >> reporter: while the world has come to associate isis with harrowing images like the execution of journalist james foley, global recruiting efforts of isis show a softer side to the terror group, instead of violence and mayhem, messages of cheer and support. >> feel the happiness that we are feeling. >> reporter: recruitment efforts take money, not a problem for isis. >> they really have a lot of money. they have huge resources in iraq and syria, they control oil fields, they exhort taxation from businesses. >> i'm from america. >> reporter: one u.s. citizen who bought into the message was monar mohammad al mubusala. he bragged about

what about the ages you're seeing in the social media campaign, the internet, that tell me a younger probably as young as 15 people to about 25. >> reporter: new members are given cars, guns and money just for joining. women recruits are another priority target group for isis. >> western women, they come with their western passports. they're going to fall under a radar screen. >> reporter: while the world has come to associate isis with harrowing images like the execution of journalist james foley, global recruiting efforts of icy show a softer side to the terror group. enstead of violence and mayhem, messages of cheer and support. >> the happiness that we're feeling. >> reporter: recruitment efforts take money. >> they have a lot of money. they have huge resources they control. oil fields. they extort taxation from businesses and so on. >> i'm from america. >> reporter: one u.s. citizen who bought into the message was this person, born and raised in florida. he is the first american suicide bomber. he bragged about his plan to blow himself up at a check point in syria. in the u.s.,

and you know, they have a pretty effective social media campaign. and if you are somebody who is influence ed influenced by this ideology there, the group that you want to join right now. some four years ago, some people may have been tempted to join is a baath which controlled somalia at this time, so isis is flavor du jour and the most inarguably most success nfl the modern era. >> we have been seeing the air strikes that the u.s. has been doing in iraq, and actually doing something to isis to push them away from the dam there in mosul. i wonder if your take, just to get your take the on all of this, and the air strikes and the boots on the ground, what does it take to stop isis? >> well, it is a political question as much as a military question. i mean, there is no constituency in the united states for a ground invasion of iraq. air strikes, you know, they are effective. they are not going to destroy isis, but the fact is that isis can no longer function as a conventional army driving tanks down highways, because it has to function more of an ins

syria and iraq and when you look at the two pillars of the groups my black market economy and the media campaign has been trying. in drugs.

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boy now was asking for an experimental drug from a company, and they had a really strong social media campaign and that's another element to the story. patients are getting a stronger voice through social media. >> social pressure on the companies. >> that helped them reach an agreement to start a new clinical trial. they enrolled josh as the first patient. there are ethical considerations here. there are a lot of other patients that asked for the drug and didn't get it before. there are questions of inequity in the system. >> there is reasons a company might say no, not enough supply to supply to the clinical trial. do the -- what are some of the other reasons and do the companies have to tell you why they rejected your request? >> there aren't a lot of guidelines how to communicate. that's an issue in the system people tell me, the other reasons they say no, it's about getting drugs to market for the broadest population of patients, as fast as possible and the companies say you have to do that through clinical trials and we take a much closer look at this in the next package on this which ru

and then, of course, the social media campaign that normalizes such an affiliation makes it even feel even more normal. >> would you agree that part of the broader problem is that for a long time, this ideology has been allowed to spread unimpeded? that it doesn't seem as if there has been, and i know this is something you're working on, but there hasn't been a real strategy by governments, certainly, around the world about how to challenge it? fighting a war of ideas as well as a war of -- i mean, a military war. >> look, anderson, nobody should pat me on the back for saying they don't deserve to be beheaded. the baseline, surely, is that we have a civil duty to respect each other's opinion. condemning ining i.s. is a nons. what we should be talking about is the source of democratic values we want to see settled in the middle east, human rights, equality before the law, individual autonomy. these are the kind of values that leaders and government and institutions in our society should be pushing among communities, and sadly, they've only been focusing on war thus far. >> you don't se

will look at the two pillars of the group's mind it's flourishing black market economy and the media campaign that's attracting new recruits in droves.

iskandar says the goal with social media campaigns shouldn't be quantity, but traction. >> if you have a single posting from an idf page, or a hamas page, if it doesn't get any more than 200, 300 likes, it probably is... it's had little to no impact whatsoever, and hasn't circulated if it gets retweeted by someone who has 20,000 or 100,000 followers, then all of a sudden your message has been amplified. if you can't amplify your message, then you have little to no impact in the 21st century, >> reporter: those retweets and shares may be more important than the original messages created by the israeli government and hamas. >> there's a contest for world opinion on, on numerous levels. certainly, the governments are waging that contest. >> reporter: philip seib is vice dean and professor at the u.s.c. annenberg school of communication and journalism. i spoke with him via skype. >> social media provide a very comfortable home for unofficial voices. and also voices that tend to be more trusted by the audience. i'm not really concerned with what hamas and the government of israel say, but i

on the media campaign it's attracting new recruits in tribes.

he was identified thanks to a social media campaign launched by san francisco general hospital and the sheriff's department. initially they thought he suffered a medical episode but they have a couple of videos that show higgins may have been attack attacked. >> we can't get too specific what the video shows. there is evidence that this person was a victim of a crime and there is a suspect associated with that. >> reporter: outside rosenberg deli is a portrait of the 31-year-old. this is where he sometimes worked. the owner didn't want to speak on camera but says he was like a son. he shares the shock of this incident with many of higgins' friends. >> he's a magical being. he prefers the name feather. >> reporter: feathers were hung in local storefronts to honor the young man. >> free spirited. really gentle. wanted to be with people that are having fun. >> reporter: police are asking residents be a business owners in the area to review any surveillance video of the neighborhood on sunday morning. they're especially interested in the early morning hours between dawn and 7:00 a.m. more

the rounds online last month the group believed to have one of the most sophisticated social media campaigns with the number of online videos popularized in the movement edmund ghareeb an expert on middle east affairs thinks the media has proved to be an effective tool in promoting the group's beliefs. if we take a look at some of the things that they have done and said in terms of the media they have shown some sophistication in dealing with the media to clearly try to control the message of use the various social media outlets to get the message across some of it use brutality in fact to send a message of those. to show how effective. in terms of fighting and part of it also using it to recruit fighters by trying to explain and putting the best image of what their ideological beliefs into to recruit followers some experts say islamic state is gaining all the attributes of a real country with its own legislation who are a strict brand of sharia law its budget an estimated two billion dollars including cash stolen from iraq's central bank in mosul and donations from gulf sponsors even as nat

international human rights groups are demanding the correspondent is immediately released and social media campaign called free andrew is now under way and there have been several flash mobs around the world in support. to the us now where a state of emergency and a curfew have been declared for the town of ferguson has been rocked by on the arrest the death of an unarmed teenager caused public outrage and subsequent rallies met a strong response from the authorities now the controversial incident has reached the residence of the president of the united states dozens of people gathered in front of the white house to hold a silent protest against a recent wave of police brutality in the united states protesters also demanded the demilitarization of the police force as well as justice for the teen who was killed . reports now from. the suburbs of st louis missouri. on to the streets calling for justice in the case killing eighteen year old michael brown. the name of the police officer be fined the killing has been released dan wilson is twenty eight years old he is white and we do know that he has be

staying with sanctions ukraine's president put a shank over has lent his support to a polish media campaign under the slogan quote eat an apple to spite hooten a president posted a picture on facebook on twitter depicting him eating an apple during a meeting with a polish politician a message said ukraine's leader supported the campaign although it was later deleted rusher imposed a ban on the import of polish apples as part of its response to western backed sanctions drawn up over the ukraine crisis. i take all the sanctions issues further and speak live to political analyst alexander sullivan often are driving us here on r.t. international this morning good to see you sir thanks for coming on the e.u. and the us are targeting russia's strategic economic sectors with their sanctions why do you think moscow chose their version of agricultural sanctions. well thing is that has been composing below the part of the russian. e.u. countries in regards of fruits vegetables and those with. us. imports from the us all the those notoriously famous broiler drumsticks then canadian pork and all that s

crisis emerged to africa driven by the ivory trade in japan and there is a large scale social media campaign education campaign and essentially that demand was extinguished through the education campaigns and the pressure was alleviated prettily quickly on the elephants once word got out about how make arts impact was, so i am optimistic we can do it again, i hope we can do it again. and you know, i really look at these two, the demand side as well as protection on the ground with the population, with the actual elephants as the critical two key components today. >>> remember you can keep right up-to-date with all the day's developing stories and point out more about elephants on the website. >> the war to end all wars didn't, but it did change things in ways big and small. world war i began 100 years ago this summer, and we live in the world it made. it's the "inside story." >> hello, i'm ray suarez, 100

international human rights groups are demanding the correspondent is released immediately a social media campaign called free andriy is now under way and there's been several flash mobs around the world in support. a state of emergency has been brought in for the whole of missouri and a coffee brought in from the town of ferguson is being rocked by on rest the death death of an unarmed teenager caused public outrage and subsequent rallies met a strong response from the authorities the police officer responsible for the killing has since been named the controversial incident has reached the residence of the president of the united states dozens of people gathered in front of the white house to hold a sign in protest against a recent wave of police brutality in the u.s. protesters also demanded the demilitarize ation of the police force as well as justice for the. reports from focus. in the suburbs of st louis missouri. on to the street fight for justice. eighteen year old michael brown. from the police officer be fined the killing has been released there and will say he's twenty eight years old he

on this with a perry abraham a yazidi immigrant in the netherlands who has launched a social media campaign to stop the genocide of her people thank you for being with us. perry what is your take up the fight and reveal the plight of your plan. because the people of sin jar were asking for help but no one can hear the people and that's why we started the campaign stop the easy genocide a few friends in america and other countries also started this campaign and i think i was the first on television to let people know what is the people to use e.g. people needed help. thousands of years it is who are thought to be trapped on monsoon job still haven't got a drop of water food they're still struggling there is anything being done to help the plight of those people know all of the news channels are now a bit quiet about those people on mountain jar. which everyone thinks that the people of vermont and are saved but that's not that's not not at all. what's happening now people are still on mountain gore and they need help day it has no food no water there should be a plane always looking unmounti

human rights groups are now demanding that the correspondent is immediately released a social media campaign called free andrew is now under way and there have been several flash mobs around the world in support. now a state of emergency has been brought in for the whole of missouri and a curfew brought in for the town of ferguson it has been rocked by on the rest of the death of an unarmed teenager caused a public outrage and subsequent rallies met a strong response from the authorities the police officer responsible for the killing has since been named the controversial incident has reached the residence of the president of the united states dozens of people gathered in front of the white house to protest against. police brutality in the united states protesters also demanded the. police force as well as justice for the teen who was killed. reports from. the streets calling for justice in the case. eighteen year old unarmed. police officer be fined the killing has been released danny wilson is twenty eight years old he is white and we do know that he has been kept in the police by the ever

international human rights cream side demanding the correspondent is immediately released a social media campaign called free andrew is now underway and the also been several flash mobs around the world in support. the police officer who shot did an unarmed teenager in the us town of fake assen has been named the death caused public outrage and subsequent rallies a strong response from the authorities and associates can i reports from the latest protest. in ferguson in the suburbs of st louis missouri protesters are continuing to come out onto the streets for justice in the case the killing of eighteen year old unarmed michael brown. who. was the name of the police officer behind the killing has been released aaron wilson is twenty eight years old he is white and we do know that you have been in a safe place by police here ever since to being took place earlier we spoke with one of the attorneys of michael brown's family and this is what he told about the information that's been released by the police just a name that's all we hear yes there. is a lot more we need to learn about him especially th

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we look at the two pillars of the group's might its flourishing black market economy and the media campaign it's attracting new crew in drugs. are the latest developments and a look back at the last seven days you're watching the weekly here and r.t. international now russian soldiers detained in ukraine almost a week ago have returned home ten paratroopers were captured when they claimed they unintentionally crossed the ukrainian border while on a routine patrol has been following the developments. the talks were complicated and difficult but we can now confirm that all ten of russian paratroopers crossed over into ukraine are back inside russia the negotiations weren't easy but thankfully common sense prevailed and the guards are back with us the soldiers were patrolling the ukrainian russian border at night when they unintentionally crossed over into ukrainian territory it was a part of the border that is not signposted they were later detained by the ukrainian security services such border incidents are not uncommon and on several occasions ukrainian soldiers have in fact crossed over i

a claim from a social media campaign is aimed at saving the famed bridges of paris.hey want couples to take a selfie instead of leaving the locks behind. the lox go back a decade or so, but the weight is pulling down the bridge railings. city leaders hope that that quote, take a selfie don't leave a lock will ease the damaging tradition on their historic sites. the #love without locks has more than 270 photos on instagram so far. >> it's heavy. >> they're crumpling under the weight of all that love. >> oh, man. >> thanks for joining us here at 11:00 have. great day tomorrow. see you. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." ♪ tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- taylor swift andrew rannells

immigrant in the netherlands who's launched the social media campaign it's called stop yazidi genocide and she told r.t. that people are still feeling the radicals in large numbers and need urgent help everyone things that the people of vermont enjoy are saved but that's not over it's happening now there's no food no water it's forty years eighty people it's already too late because obama said he would help the z.t. people and afterwards obama was a bomb being near every meal and enjoy it and really are two different places. and so what do you see the people there must be help right now people are still fleeing we can call this a genocide because people are being killed in sin jar there are already big muslims there are kurdish muslims and at this moment none of these people are being killed only do you see the people just because they do not want to convert to islam you stay with us here on r.t. still to come this hour has the potential to track every move of loyal soccer fans will bring you all the details after this short break. differently here in syria now many of the members of c

isis captured attention because of the social media campaign.able act committed when it beheaded james foley. the maryland researcher said the terrorism front is so much bigger than isis. >> this is not just one problem. we keep concentrating on something that has a name factor. it has name reck recognition, but there are many other militant groups, those opposing the islamic state, which hate the united states and want to fight us. also use social media and brutal tactics. >> speaking of the name, isis, you may hear the obama administration refer to isl. they are the same islamic group. wusa9. >> in addition to the handful of american members of isis, more than a thousand western europeans joined isis as well. around 3 00 from france and 500 from great britain. most, if not all have passports that would have allowed them to travel freely to the u.s. derek. >>> jan, after 2 1/2 days of sometimes very emotional testimony, bob mcdonnell wrapped up his week on the witness stand today and while yesterday it looked like the former virginia governor w

access the area to assist the dying an injured left line in the streets now israel's launched a media campaign justifying the atrocity claiming that rockets were being kept below the village and just this morning the i.d.f. bombed the hospital killing three people and wounding fifty more this wasn't the first time israel specifically targeted a medical center since the siege began the bloodshed has brought gaza's death toll to at least five hundred thirty seven people killed at the time of this broadcast according to bloomberg and three thousand three hundred more injured according to the international middle east media center the majority of the casualties are women and children it's not just the extreme disproportionality of the aggression it's also israel's use of controversial weaponry during the attack not only is the i.d.f. using bandai and weapons against civilians that micro shrapnel according to guardian the militaries and point shells to which released thousands of potentially lethal metal darts into the air in the past the organization human rights watch has pointed to the indiscrim