In moscow thanks for choosing us to update you on whats happening around the world this hour first off we go to the exotic portuguese island of tests in the azores in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean but its in desperate need of decontamination decades of u. S. Air force activity have left it polluted with hydrocarbons and heavy metals and islanders say theyre worried about the prevalence of cancer and other serious illnesses. The Latino Community but back to twenty thousand this is the constant loss of like six thousand releases that never a constant one now thats eighteen twenty twenty thousand twenty thousand twenty thousand. New them freely and its time to run away from here as were ready to stay too long twenty thousand to come who is now the boss golf is already a substantial body. Of what we have a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by having much goes on hydrocarbons the heavy metals have series of facts on how the very high levels of lead in some of those i think molybdenum all of them a heavy metals that in certain concentrations can cause the released cancer to the recently and neverending amounts of problems associated with a nexus of these substances indeed. One im thirty four years old and i lived my whole life in cry of the victoria right by the entrance of the american base my only family theyve been that area both of my parents died of cancer my mama Breast Cancer and my dad was a different kind of cancer in life when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with Breast Cancer my mother had already been in the same situation as me on and passed away on the same year and i was diagnosed with the same with elegy as one. Visitation the more cancer cases there are the more the pure lation asks why is this happening why it cried the story on the roads is that on one side all houses have had at least one case of cancer and on the other side its almost every other house that is not normal your mothers. Caffyn i want to raise my children in a place where i have a guarantee that i will be able to give them a good quality of life and this is a doubt that i have am i doing the right thing for the future generation. The u. S. Has maintained a presence on the island since one nine hundred forty three it serves as a stopover for transatlantic military flights and it also houses the sixty fifth air base group its not known how many personnel are currently stationed there but there are one hundred sixty houses to accommodate them one former employee told us that some of the people working there have been subjected to radiation often leading to tragic consequences. Of you going to are meant there was also a Senate Commission that came to to share the check high a Legal Process from some members of the American Military who were dying of terminal cancer and were exposed to radio samiti on. Their hair for a week and june this summer found out what they were doing here they were here to confirm the existence of radiation on the chair and a radioactive contamination of. The dire environmental situation on the island was first acknowledged in a confidential report from two thousand and three which has been shared with us by a local newspaper the document lists seventeen major fuel spills at different locations one for instance happened when a pipeline was unintentionally activated that was in one thousand nine hundred four theres been no cleanup since the report stresses that the islands inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in the soil and water heres what some of the local experts have been telling us. Well there was we found in the data that was published on going further into the two thousand and seven two thousand and eleven period a higher number of certain cancers in the prior divots or area in the rest of the source especially regarding the rarer cancers for example i can service there with thirty three percent of the is all cases being and proud of its aura while the area has only eight point five two percent of the population of. The. Way it is or how it repeats itself from various silence that are occupied by the americans this is almost a scorched earth policy where the problems accumulate and the local government doesnt react the population has no could take a stand maybe as a result of scientific illiteracy the look of knowledge on the cause of fact relations. Where weve been in touch with both the us and portuguese governments we havent had any response to our questions so far the us did though forward us a press release published in december last year it says that the protection of the islands environment and its the health of its population are of utmost importance. Next germanys best selling newspapers published what it thought was a smoking gun evidence of russian meddling in the countrys politics but in its rush to break the story the tabloid failed to check its sources and it backfired spectacularly as well because they have explained. Bild thought they had a bombshell the makings of an International Scandal here is the meat of it build the 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 hit 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 new 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 girl Code Campaign thanks for your mail day already told me to expect a man 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. Dear yuri perfect thats a relief so what can you offer me basically we can offer you everything an Opinion Campaign with books again schulz social bots on twitter or facebook or even a targeted Facebook AdvertisingCampaign Front page stuff but that was on friday by wednesday germanys satirists from tannic magazine revealed that it was all a prank they had written the entire exchange and said to build but build rabbits without jew checks and verification what with there and t s b d stands 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 as to talent explained bill that was just too excited and anonymous email to your three calls and billed prints average things that fits its agenda remember the drinks name meal meal matty ginger well thats now trending on twitter as germans online ridicule build though theyre defending themselves havent kuhner 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 the leader of the youth wing of Germany Social Democratic Party says that if hed been offered the story hed have immediately known something was wrong. But i dont know but this group but of course we would refuse any of these offers we dont work with social mobs i dont have information that will even received and yours was. One of the people behind the prank told us how planting the story turned out to be remarkably easy. We at atlanta go 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 in the spine movie as you just set and we had a good feeling that this would work especially with built as the lady ran a campaign against the s. P. D. A social Democratic Party which kevin not as a 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 for. The readers of built just like the editors at build there are hopeless cases so you cant help them i dont think anyone will learn anything. New we at the turn ignore the people at build or german politicians or the german people but it was a good laugh now owned and i think thats worth something. An orphanage in central russia is at the center of a child sex abuse scandal that shocked the nation a suspect under arrest but investigators want others brought to justice as well his arteries medina cotton of. Allegations of the rape of boys says an orphanage for children with disabilities in the region after lab has shocked russia the accusation emerged once several boys broke down and told their new foster families about their experiences at the institution when my son decided to tell me everything he came up to me and can fast you know mom i was so afraid they told me that they draw means lake and will lock me up in rehab for the rest of my life when i try and talk to my child his wee strawn starts crying and runs away he says mom i dont want to discuss it but just a week ago when managed to get him to talk all the children give the same small details its just impossible they made it up together they even show the places where they were raped they told us where the rapist did to them. I called the orphanage directory to find out who the man was who visited the kids they knew about him there they told us that he supposedly wanted to adopt one of the kids but he was refused and never came back the director again and again reassured us that what the boy said was a figment of his imagination she said the kids were such a condition have a good imagination and can make stuff up easily. Authorities have now opened a criminal investigation and have already detained a suspect is a reporter the thirty one year old a local man allegedly unknown to the children as friends if found guilty he could face up to twenty years in prison the police are investigating other we are poor is that staff sold time well the orphan boys two different men or we were turned away when we went to the facility for comments which. You just dont get depressed when you dont eat with us that we knew it was going to the most news in the night for me and. It was decided she. Would get on with the same side of it with. Me and the machines that nature gave us news that is just the picture that we can predict. But did manage to speak to some locals who said that there was no discipline at the orphanage and children were all from left unattended. For just such a. Summing up of. The question of the if you if you have not yet been your bushes i would not go for you british i mean your previous cabinet is to pretend to get you and your family to provide you today. Thank you its what you get yes and i want to. Continue with russias childrens rights commissioner is now calling for the prosecutors Generals Office to get involved. Now its theres growing anger among right wing twitter users who claim theyre being purged by the social network and a crackdown against supposed russian but accounts with automatically post tweets thousands say theyve been wrongly locked out of the site the hash tag twitter lockout began trending on the site shortly after the suspensions began many conservative users say the move comes as part of a sustained attack on by the network on rightwing voices one claim to have lost as many as three thousand followers in the space of a minute some users believe that the move is linked to a pledge that twitter made in january to combat russian interference in u. S. Political life following the kremlins alleged hacking of the president ial election was part of the initiative the platform has sought to target people believed to be working for the Internet Research agency of petersburg which has been accused of being a tool for meddling we spoke to one user whose account was suspended shes surprised to hear about her connection to the gremlin in arent worth twenty ten basically when i realized it was permanent i was a little shocked they were actually accusing me of being a russian operative so the you. Know that i was somehow working for russia part of the russian bots that were. Sending out negative information during the election i recent years a team of investigative journalists known as project very task of cast doubt on how twitter determines who should be blocked. You know i dont want to. Go. Like. This is the problem of. Course meanwhile two top u. S. Democrats of called on congress to give the f. B. I. An additional three hundred Million Dollars to help prevent meddling in future elections the call was made by Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a letter to the senate they say that the additional funding would help to counter the influence of hostile foreign actors particularly Russian Media analyst lionel told us however that it would be a waste of money three hundred Million Dollars and we get this straight from the f. B. I. To battle russian interference the same f. B. I. Thats been trying to investigate russian interference that has netted nothing we cannot point to anything other than buying an ad and as was indicated last week in the indictment so we discord now we want the f. B. I. To continue this investigation which netted nothing they could pin you trying to find nothing and to prove or to expose or to ferret out examples of russian collusion where cured of war have proved nothing the Democratic Party are vowing more money more money earmarked not to stop real crime where the real victims and real pain in real sadness you know they were to go after who russian. Colu shit. For meddling accusations but from a different quarter this time a New York Times article has listed many cases in which the United States has interfered in foreign elections since the Second World War and yet for some people thats 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 it just by research by an american historian recently found that washington tried to influence eighty one foreign elections between World War Two and the turn of the century and one former cia chief admits that it still happens when i do that i know that we dont mess around other people. Are only for a very good idea 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 or 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 you know we need to ask the people of libya 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 find it the height of hypocrisy myself so this is just nonsense just absolute nonsense. Its exactly four years since the coup in ukraine that drove president coverture from power heres a look at how events unfolded. Well years on from the uprising some of the my down activists have changed their minds about the protests saying that the hopes for meaningful change in the country have not materialized among them is evgenia a ukrainian poet and cultural science professor she took part in the protests in kiev and says that she used to be a volunteer for the far right group known as the right sector she also volunteered to work with ukrainian nationalists fighting against the rebels and the selfproclaimed republics in Eastern Ukraine we spoke to afghani about a change of heart. Illinois little girl would you like to act on the feeling that had been building up for many years and that many people back then were unhappy that our country was being run by corrupt bend the behavior of state officials have gone beyond anything that people could tolerate those who wanted to seize power in ukraine understood that emotional state of the ukrainian people was on the brink i believe my dad was a mistake i have no right to judge people for taking part in my done i believe it was a mistake to fall for the slogans of nationalists. The European Union which supported ukraine after the unrest also appears to have become somewhat disillusioned with the countrys ability to deliver reforms media reports say that the blocks are shutting down a border checkpoint scheme with ukraine which was supposed to ease customs proceedings and also boost trade we discussed that with political analyst martin mccauley. Crane from brussels point of view for the American Point of view is an important state but these countries wish to keep ukraine as a partner as a friend and i thought that. And but theyre finally increasingly difficult the European Union and western europe becoming increasingly tired off ukraine and exasperated at the lack of progress. In certain areas the main problem is corruption within the government within the state the elites. In fact. Siphoning off some of the money for themselves or awarding contracts in the yourself and so on he would be needed has been. Hoping that ukraine would begin to limit corruption within the state for years as well two decades now so therefore very slow progress has been achieved and unless the chief. 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