Arguably the biggest story of twenty seventeen was russia it was on the lips of World Leaders and politicians but this wasnt always the case this was obamas analysis of the country back in twenty fourteen russia is a Regional Power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors. Not out of strength but out of weakness Regional Power weakness well that was the past in the last year weve seen russia propelled to be the greatest threat on the planet in the words of the former f. B. I. Chief what kind of threat do you believe russia presents to our democratic process given what you know about russias behavior. Well certainly that in my view the greatest threat of any nation on earth well heres how it all began on january sixth of last year u. S. Intelligence agencies issued a report saying that russia had tried to influence our elections with this russian president Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in twenty sixteen aimed at the us president ial election russias goals were to undermine public faith in the Us Democratic process denigrate secretary clinton and home her electability and potential presidency we further assist putin and the russian government develop a clear preference for President Trump now the authors of the report at the time said they had high confidence in their judgments a few pages later they explain exactly what they meant by high confidence with a little disclaimer high confidence generally indicates that judgments based on high quality information from multiple sources high confidence does not imply that the assessment is fact or a certainty such judgments might be wrong well after the report the word got around that blaming russia was now a thing and that opened the floodgates in twenty seventeen hardly a lection went by in europe without russia being accused of meddling. The balance disruptor covert group in two thousand and sixteen covert disruptor. Part of our responsibility. The russians about whats going on in the United States germany france the other one in montenegro. From hacking into the Danish Defense ministry to trying to meddle in the maltese elections russia has had a truly diverse collection of accusations thrown at it russia is accused of influencing the brags that vote through social media probably yes sure i believe it i believe all of this thats russia theyre crazy right russia was accused of intervening in the French Election yeah you know why i believe that to the german election sure i catalonia separatism yeah yeah i believe that to all take oliver about sending bots after a star trek star trying to take him down with sexual allegations star trek no star wars i would believe if i had my doubts about a box so i would say no. They were actually accused of that was. Russia hacked into the us irish and british power grids fake russia was influencing the braggs it vote through social media fake russia hacked into cataloging a separatism and was promoting cataloging a separatism in spain real how about buying ads on social media in order to influence u. S. Public opinion yeah yeah why not make up the budget actually all of those allegations were leveled against russia do you believe that do you think that they are actually doing these kind of things from what the seventeen u. S. Intelligence Agencies Syndicate and the strong possibility that they did i feel its just i saw the news that to sell newspapers people just wrote of one story that put it on Everything Else that listeners showed new yorkers is dwarfed from an actual file of things that russia has been accused of it turns out that if you point the finger at the kremlin you can find a convenient scapegoat for almost any trouble that youre dealing with they will mop. Artsy new york. Germany started the here by introducing a new law to tackle hate speech but its already been criticized for blocking the twitter feed of a satirical magazine and his smear a cartoon reports next applying that kind of legislation can be a legal minefield. Well governments are now trying to regulate content on the internet by pushing the online world to crackdown on his speech extremism and of course the mysterious bots and trolls who somehow manage to elect president s but so far there are attempts havent exactly been successful for example in germany a new online hate speech laws only came into force on monday and twitter has already banned a parody account after users reported it as hate speech but under the law platforms have to delete violent or slanderous content by a certain deadline or face a fine up to sixteen Million Dollars well the first case a far right politician of the alternative for Germany Party had her twitter account briefly suspended after users fired her tweets as hate speech against muslims now thats after she lashed out against German Police for putting out a new years tweet in arabic and prosecutors are now examining whether or not her tweets do in fact incite hatred then on top of that twitter banned the account of a magazine that was actually mocking her but in doing so repeated her line now the magazines editor said he was shocked by the decision and the association of german journalist said that it qualifies as censorship adding that they had warned of this danger when the law was drafted last year a private Company Based in the United States decides the boundaries of freedom of the press and opinion in germany now this is even going on in the u. K. Where twitter and facebook are facing sanctions after m. P. s that said that they failed to thoroughly investigate how russia supposedly swayed the brigs that vote but the has to be them theres so much good news im saying if you fail to do that and if you ignore a request to arms if you fail to police the science effectively and deal with highly problematic continent then the has to be some sort of sanction against you. So the only trace of russia the companies were able to find were three ads worth less than a dollar however the idea that maybe russia didnt influence the election is apparently off the table so who exactly polices the internet is it government or is it the social Media Companies or is it the government through social Media Companies thats all very unclear at the moment samir khan reporting that still to come french president plans to crack down on friday news by targeting foreign media well tell you about after the break. Our. Local blog telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings you to the box forcing you to fight the battle theyre going. To do so to try to tell you that what we gossiped about but what. About her eyes and tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product. Although we all have our on walking. Thanks for watching today so next but in news the french president vowing to combat fake news with a lot of regulate media influenced by foreign statesmen your micron and now its the move to journalists in paris until soonish between fake news machines and the professional media we run the risk of losing the truth the barriers have been destroyed president ial campaigns in almost all modern democracies have displayed their weakness and our collective failure to come up with a response. He wasnt specific about which countries new things could be influencing french media though but Russian Media including r. T. And sputnik news of course that news agency here have already been firing line of late both were denied accreditation during his president ial Campaign Last year were also later labeled by him as propaganda outlet for the shit of the russia today and sputnik have been influential outlets which have several times spoken mistruths about me and my campaign thats why they have not been invited in my headquarters i mean time the r. T. Family at a Christmas Present for the french speaking world with the launch of our newest channel r t france and immediately ruffled a few high profile feathers to several French Public figures published an open letter calling for the frances license to be revoked they said arties repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the u. S. And several European Countries little commentator Adrian Yelland believes micron should be careful about taking legal measures against any media. I think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a quote him from his press Conference Today threats to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r. T. And sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the merit of the conversation to make this more about the use the better what he calls false news fake news and i think you need to tread very carefully i think its a very thin line between exercising new laws that protect. Peoples rights and what have their their views challenged by untruths and actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he could find himself acting unconstitutionally if youre not careful prism across also face to flood close to home with his criticism of his wife bridget is breaking protocol a baby like a french queen is because she stands next to her husband at events as opposed to standing behind it. Cattanach. Also making waves today Donald Trumps lawyers are threatening legal action against former advisor Steve Ballmer and he reportedly made explosive comments about trump family members and a new tell all book about the president. Publicly lashed out at his former right hand man when he said the band had lost his mind and only work for his own interest in is never part of trumps inner circle as he put it the White House Press secretaries out even more fuel to that fire. I was curious what these reports christina was quoted as saying so. I think furious disgusted would probably certainly felt when you make such outrageous claims and completely fos claims against the president his administration and his family the sparks over what bannon reportedly revealed to the author of a book called foreign fury coming out inside the white house of the title of it hes quoted as saying that a meeting between members of trumps company a russian lawyer during his Election Campaign was treasonous and unpatriotic he also allegedly hit out of the president s daughter ivanka trump to Steve Bartman left the white house in august last year a year after joining trumps Election Team as chief strategist but it was a pivotal figure for the president during his campaign through taking up office the legal and media analyst lionel spoke to us about all this he thinks trumps reaction is par for the course. Heres a simple rule if you dont go after trump he doesnt bother you go after him in any way insult him criticize him take him to task and hes on you with a death grip youve never seen does anybody think that anybody in the Drug Administration cares one i older about this i mean its what it does is it throws the Mainstream Media the Washington Press corps and the Mainstream Media news troops it throws them into disarray which trump thrives on and after hes done with bannan hes going to Say Something about france or italy or or some of his neighbor has someone this is his pattern does anybody not Pay Attention trump for arrives on this he loves this. Before issue make you factor in central southern russians reportedly killed up to ten people who broke nine oclock local time in the morning near the city of novosibirsk flame swiftly engulf the premises you see huge father filling the two thousand square meter building with toxic smoke Emergency Services said the victims were workers at the factory eight were partly chinese nationals one of the other two were thought to come from. Its still unclear how the blaze broke out. With this First Anniversary in office approaching the u. S. President s been taking up his economic record to typical from style. Economic miracle created more than two million jobs unemployment is at a seventeen year low the stock market is at an all time high fantastic for the economy our economy has already surged to three percent growth unemployment is at a seventeen year low liberated the American Economy and our economy is doing well sounds great according to trump but one man who doesnt share President Trumps all to his name is former u. S. Congressman ron paul he told us the growth in the u. S. Is presently benefited those already at the top. If youre in the stock market no wealthy person here doing quite well but what were forgetting here when we listen to this rhetoric of all this optimism is that theres a large segment of our population thats havent a difficult time where there is prosperity and more jobs it depends on death yes an individual can feel very good if they have a line of credit to the bank but eventually that line of credit runs out we in this country benefit because we have the reserve currency of the world we can run up a lot of debt and we can spend a lot of money and even with that weve had a great deal of difficulty is last eight years trying to get out of the recession and i see everything we do is a big bubble and all those kiwis that we have dealt with in these last eight years have just created a huge bubble and everything is in excess whether its our military budget our overseas engagements whether its the welfare state and that bubble will come to an end were going to have a sudden cataclysmic an which is sort of what happened to the soviet system its not going to be identical and our states arent probably going to break up but i do sincerely believe that we will no longer be able to afford our empire around the world. 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