Leaked evidence of a russian troll far marches but ive got to have comments. Bild thought they had a bombshell the makings of an International Scandal heres the meat of it build that published a report about how the socialists the s. P. D. Was trying to buy the services of the mythical russian troll factory its a huge it would be the first direct evidence of russian meddling in german politics here the actors kevin kuhn are head of the s. P. D. Youth wing who is running a campaign against forming a coalition with angular merkel the no grow Cold Campaign yuri a mysterious russian agent offering the services of an online army under his control to spread the message what build got their hands on was the email exchange between them it reads wonderfully cold words mistrust secret meetings like something out of a spy a movie did kevin im ury id like to talk to you about supporting your no grow Cold Campaign thanks for your mail jay already told me to expect a mile from you but just to be sure could you name me g. s favorite beverage as you can certainly understand this is a delicate matter mere mere multi ginger there yuri perfect thats a relief so what can you offer me basically we can offer you everything an Opinion Campaign with books again scholtz social bots on twitter or facebook or even a targeted Facebook Advertising campaign. I think a targeted Advertising Campaign on facebook would be appreciated by the now graca movement how much money would you invest in these ads weve already roughly calculated the campaign and expect to pay around four thousand to five thousand euros weve included the social bots dont worry well pay from frankfurt the payment will not be traceable. Sounds good ill collect the data for the facebook audience and send all the information to you soon so you can watch the campaign immediately as long as it looks like juices pay for their ads im not worried looking forward. I dont believe that the russians really did that because bill publishes fake either very often here in berlin we already know this happens constantly. And used to full builds to publish stories we call checking i mean billys for entertainment its not something serious front page stuff but that was on friday by wednesday germanys satirists from Time Inc Magazine revealed that it was all a prank they had written the entire exchange and sent it to build but build rabbits without jew checks and verification what with their anti s. P. D. Stunts and tabloid routes even the email tributed to kevin kuhn or was fake he couldnt have sent anything from it other german publications saw the exchange and realized it was suspicious but to tannic explained bill that was just too excited an anonymous email or three calls and billed prints average thing that fits its agenda remember the drinks name me a oh me oh matty ginger well thats now trending on twitter as germans online ridicule build though theyre defending themselves kevin kuhn out in the star of the show is also suing billed for libel and slander but judging by this picture and hes posted hes also enjoying the show Kevin Community himself says the reported email exchange would have made no sense even if it were genuine. Both of our me have to see in this book i dont know but this group but of course you would refuse any of these offers dont work with social bots i dont have information that even received any of us in this area. We heard from maura to her begin and editor at Time Magazine who came up with the prank he says that the new builds of weeks but. We are to turn it over to rick a magazine we work with the same. Methods as a built so we knew how to think like and build editor and what we did was we came up with a story that was techie and like an aspiring movie as you just set and we had a good feeling that this would work especially with built as they already run a campaign against the s. P. D. Of the social Democratic Party which have a lot of the part of. Our intent was to spin this story more further you know there seems to be no election in the past years where there wasnt talk of russian meddling or interference but this s. P. D. Voting which is now evident in germany about whether they go into the coalition with merkel or not there were no rumors about russian meddling and we thought this this cannot be we have to. Make a make an alliance with the build a tabloid and push a story about russian meddling and as we see now it works perfectly. The readers of built just like the other tools i build there are hopeless cases so you cant help them i dont think anyone will learn anything. New we have to turn the explorer the people at built our german politicians or the german people but it was a good laugh now. And i think thats worth something. And we now continue our look at recent discoveries from japans official archives on long concealed eugenics programs left thousands of people infertile over a period of almost half century arties Jacqueline Wagner has the story records of only a fraction of the people subjected to sterilization have been revealed but this may finally help the victims to get justice after decades of suffering and some are already taking action has a hard time going through the middle school thats when i was diagnosed with a mental disability my teacher took me for a medical check and then i was taken to hospital thats all i remember at home my parents told me that i was operated on and now i cannot have babies my father disposed to sign documents by my teacher and welfare offices there are many movies him the government should make apologies and pay compensation to them its believe there are up to twenty five thousand victims all under the eugenics protection law in force for almost forty years as late as the mid ninetys the procedures were in order to quote preserve the purity of the japanese race people with mental disabilities or hereditary diseases were targeted but misdiagnosis of such conditions was common causing even more unnecessary suffering we managed to speak to the relative of one such victim when i got married my mother in law told me that my sister has been sterilized after i made an information disclosure request i found out she was only fifteen when the pure ration to replace genetic mental disease was the only listed reason for her sterilization however it is not true. When she was a one year old she became mentally handicapped because of the anesthesia three different doctors gave her so she didnt have a genetic condition and over sixteen thousand cases the procedure was even carried out without consent and shockingly victims were as young as nine years old appeal to admit the practice had taken place were dismissed for years with victims being told that the evidence was simply gone very well the question is whos responsible for all of this to me its the governments fault key to the program as well as the National Legislature which a doctor the law needs to take responsibility and make apologies soon as possible the doctors were also responsible but in a way that we use by the government. I think that the now defunct eugenic protections law existed for the sole purpose to reject a band of disabled. When i requested the disclosure of the documents regarding my sister surgery they told me the files were just said to have been strictly processed had been thrown away the evidence of the mutilation of my sisters body was simply trashed in the case of another victim mrs zucker the documents were thrown into the fire when i heard about it i was beside myself with their anger. Hotlines have been set up to bring together big times for whats likely to be an extremely long and traumatic battle for justice but while victims one compensation they say money isnt the main reason their goal is to create awareness to ensure that horrors like this never take place again. A large number of twitter users in the u. S. Are seeing their accounts blocked and there is speculation that this could be linked to the social networks crackdown on suppose a russian parts. How soon to be transiting parents thousands of accounts will receive the same passage of the same moment to provide and then a texan through. So its enough to know what most value is simply because im conservative sixpence and crissy wonder how many votes im wrong worse donald trump must tonight conservative twitter users are accusing twitter of intentionally restricting or blocking right leaning voices and theyre even holding the Company Responsible for missing followers calling it a great twitter purge and some famous users have even been blocked like mikes or no vision of the son of Michael Flynn and its pretty widespread the hash tag twitter lockout has even been trending on social media but no official comments from twitter as yet some people online think that it could be a purge of socalled russian bot accounts is this all comes amid claims of alleged russian influence but twitter and nouns back in january that they would be doing this purge to combat socalled russian influence but it seems to have backfired theyre now claims that real people were locked out of their accounts in fact went to launch the first wave of purges there was an American Woman whose twitter account was suspended because an employee thought she was a russian bot when i realized it was permanent i was a little shot twitter kept saying that it was a permanent ban suspension because of harassment and i couldnt get them to explain to me who had our rest and came back and told that it was because i was part of a russian operative or youre being with. Us. That i was somehow working for russia part of the russian box that were. Sending out negative information during the election so well for some time now twitter has been helping the u. S. Government catch these magical russian bots who somehow manage to sway elections and theyve detected a massive number of them lets look back at a project veritas investigation for an idea on how they judge whos a russian and whos not a russian by. You know i dont want to you know. I dont know this and he goes. Yeah like. The problem is. That youre a christian. Lawyer and political activist believes that the move goes against free speech form like Twitter Facebook or instagram these are forms where people have the ability of expressing their freedom of speech and their opinions i think that thats the point of these social media sites so if they begin to censor people just because theyre coming under pressure then you know whats going to come next i think that this country has been characterized as always for the protection of freedom of speech regardless of what you think and as long as the message that youre portraying is not racially offensive or sexually offensive and you know other ways possible then you can not censor the opinion of a person simply because they go against you or simply because you disagree with them staying with meddling accusations now a New York Times article has listed the many cases in which of the u. S. Has interfered in foreign election since World War Two but for some people this is apparently a good thing there is some truth to the fact that the United States has engaged in the election meddling over its history the cia has but its not always the same thing right like here you can help and Democratic Movement deal with the desk according to a recent study by an american historian washington trying to influence eighty one foreign elections between World War Two and the start of the century and a former cia chief recently admitted that this practice still happens. We dont do that we dont mess around other people. Are only for the very good to do that through online video and those former cia director a very good cause. I wonder whether the people of libya agree with the gentleman or maybe we could talk about nicaragua or el salvador the whole host of countries now of course america has involved themselves in other peoples democracies in other peoples countries just as the United Kingdom house and so i dont really understand where this guy is coming from when he sort of says its ok for them to do it because theyre the good cops but its not ok for russia to do it and they you know really trust the people of libya as i say you know are they happy with the involvement of the americans will they brought to libya was terrorism civil war and massacres of many many innocent people but they forget this when they then start complaining about whether the russians have meddled on social media i thought at the height of hypocrisy myself so this is just nonsense just absolute nonsense. Russian curler who won bronze in the Winter Olympics and later tested positive for doping will have to return his medal or do you have to try to go is following the developments in south korea this is really unbelievable turn of events just thirteen hours before the court of arbitration for sport hearing on the russian curlers case was meant to begin the russian athlete who won his country its first ever olympic medal and curling but then tested positive for twice at these Winter Olympics said that hes refusing to proceed with the arbitration. Its silly to deny it dont be rude violations when the presence of a prohibited substance was confirmed by to doping tests im ready for the verdict which is predictably the same in all cases and i weighed up the pros and cons and decided to withdraw from the caste hearings i think in this situation its useless and senseless so alexander crucial needs he has admitted that there was a formal violation of antidoping rules although he maintains that he has never taken mole dont even pills on purpose and the concentration of the drug and his body from these two doping tests points to single use and this could have played in favor of the athlete if he were able to prove that there was some sort of sabotage and and the last couple of days we heard other curlers and even coaches say that someone could have spiked alexanders food or drinks plus the man who invented the drug donia house confirmed that if you take the pill once or twice its absolutely useless military is not medici in which can be. Used once or twice or three times you should take milk on a four day and for fourteen days and costs of treatment is mutilate recommended by but id use a. One mans three mons even six mons up to you depends on the. Disease the patients have to get the reaction of the International Olympic committee the russian side and all the others here at the Winter Olympics i guess well have to wait till thursday afternoon everyone really expected a long legal battle but now it seems its not happening plus something else. You have to bear in mind is that the i. O. C. Was meant to announce its decision on february twenty fourth on the possible cancellation of the band of russias National Committee and also on whether to allow the russians to march on their flag at the closing ceremony and everyone thought that this ruling depended on alexanders case whats going to happen to it now is a very serious question earlier on wednesday two World Records were broken in the space of just fifteen minutes by russian athletes at the Winter Olympics the first was said by figure skater if you get. In the Womens Short Program and then her score was topped by a fifteen year old teammate. They will now be doing battle for the gold medal or t. Has a special report on the two women who are Close Friends and life and rivals on ice you can see that on our website. Do you even know this and itll help you still have the still here please excuse the once again there is a new way that i was the only about here but it was a complete in that my daughter was being lead it was in the area to be a ready to eat thing which was the magic city and so we had to condense our debt is way too much misleading sam six hundred fifty. Nine of the current time there was a surprise that the if you. Are an. Illusory we. Thousand thank you so were going to be so easy and keep it clean. A prominent bahraini human rights activist has been sentenced to five years in prison for criticizing on twitter the gulf monarchies role in the war in yemen now below rajab is already serving a two year sentence for previously having spoken out against the regime. And to be rose to prominence as an Opposition Leader during the mastro democracy protests back in two thousand and eleven he was also president of the Bahrain Center of human rights between two thousand and twelve and two thousand and fourteen he served time for organizing unauthorized demonstrations and the two years he is currently serving were handed down for quote publishing and disseminating rumors and false news apparently in connection with a number of t. V. Interviews he gave in two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen now to remind you the bahraini uprising started during the arab spring it wave of protests across the middle east in two thousand and eleven the main demands of the opposition were more rights for the shia population and the abdication of the king of bahrain however Police Responded with what has been described as a brutal crackdown a Senior Advisor at the bar a center for human rights told us that the latest verdict against the builder job is completely on just what the sum to clear mockery to justice a slap to the rule of law human rights values and standards and principles. After hardly more than twenty Court Hearings to use the prison substantial evidence to charge not be. Was he focused on warning. On the destruction. Of war in yemen he called upon to resort to dialogue to peace rather than to war destruction and being charged today for expressing his views openly. Rights groups are trying to draw attention to the case and Human Rights Watch asked bahrains allies to push for his Immediate Release while Amnesty International has been calling on the king of bahrain to free and have launched a twitter campaign. A prime aggression rally has been held in paris following president microns initiative to tighten laws on refugees are controlled is in the capital for us well this is seen as being one of the biggest tests of the manual mark one has faced so far in his presidency with around two hundred people coming out on wednesday morning to voice their concerns about this new Immigration Law well whats in the new Immigration Law well first of all they want to double the time of detention thats how long my kids can be held from forty five to ninety days they also want to put in jail for up to a year those migrants to cross into france illegally and they want to shorten the time that people have to apply for asylum where the people who protested outside the consulate attack today said they were incredibly unhappy and they expressed why pledge of yellow while the bulk of the supplies not get it has not been passed here but people wont like it because it wants to hold this attention with Asylum Seekers so you shouldnt work i think its a lot selfish its a lot of people dont like and a lot of foreigners dont like no one likes. This law is unbalanced because its trying to facilitate the integration of french fijis but many people also support this law some say it doesnt even go far enough and they say they support it because they have concerns over some of the elements of this new hope to deal with including that of fake i. D. s because fake i. D. s have been used by some perpetrators of terrorist attacks over the last few years in france now they will face up to five years and. Fine if they found with fake i. D. s now fake i. D. s we used with those who carried out the paris attacks in two thousand and fifteen then just a year later brussels the attack there just over the border in belgium and also last year in march say in two thousand and seventeen and on a europe wide level there is also concern that some people who apply for asylum actually want to carry out terrorist attacks such as those who carried out the attacks at the Christmas Market also in stockholm in sweden and in finland what is clear is that this bill which is due to be debated by parliamentarians here france in april is not going to have a smooth flight. Paris. The russian boy who was left stranded in iraqi territory previously held by Islamic State has been brought back home to be reunited with his relatives his parents are believed to have traveled to iraq to join a terrorist group back in russia his grandparents in the south of the country will now be looking after him. At the moscow airport when he arrived. This is a three year old boy who is coming back home from the orphanage in baghdad is happy he is finally going to see his family again here at the moscow airport the child looked tired and lost he was trying to hide his face from all the cameras and didnt respond to any questions or when he was called by his name he doesnt know what happened to his mother nor does he remember his father is too small to understand what happened to his parents that small boys traumatized is missing one Little Finger on his left hand and the injury that he sustained during a shallowing attack has spent over five months in an orphanage while all his documents were prepared for him to be able to leave iraq zaid has a little brother whos only one year old but his status still unknown moscow is not his final destination his next step is travel to the city of grozny where his grandparents are waiting for him. Here to moshe. Was. That this was one of their interests which would suggest. What the great look theres this really this. Very group or if. You want to show me this you sure this. Does it from well be back in about thirty two and a half minutes with a full look at your headlines youre watching r. T. International stories. Is the day of reckoning coming will the liberal Corporate Media ever own up to their dismal and even dishonest coverage of what is called russia gate there is growing evidence the media are at the very center of this fake scandal. Were going underground fifty three years to the day of the assassination of an imperialist human rights activist malcolm x. Coming up in the show us act as a result dawson and Sarah Silverman joining Jeremy Corbyn alice walker and angela davis in calling for israel to release palestinian teenager i had tell me we speak to professor Norman Finkelstein about the collusion of human rights organizations as more planes from israel on by britain again bomb gaza from the headlines the bank that likes to leave its clients hanging and i spy colbert in westminster but did he spied for a country in the eastern block check it out all the civil war coming up in todays going underground but first not even elite Mainstream Media paid much attention to israels Prime Minister in the past few days he brandished a bit of alleged iranian drone at the Munich Security Conference attended by u. K. Minority government be to theresa may and Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov so given we have yet to interview anyone from the Israeli Government or the Israeli Embassy in london on this show has been even netanyahu. Heres a piece of a very very rope. Or whats left of the after we shot it there. Are a lot of years you can see for so some commentators expressed doubt about politicians bringing props for their speeches arac declared eighty five hundred liters of anthrax but aside from Colin PowellsUn Security Council justifications for mass killing in iraq it was irans foreign minister speaking in munich who is keen for the world to note that netanyahu is participations about iran come at a tricky to. Time for him Israeli Police are recommending that Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu be indicted on two Corruption Cases the recommendations follow a months long investigation into allegations of bribery well in the latest book by our next guest israeli Prime Minister netanyahu who denies all allegations comes under fire for more than just bribery joining me now i mean yet more bombing of palestine by the british and Israeli Government is president Obama Finkelstein his latest book is called gaza an inquest into its martyrdom thanks so much norman coming back on the show