Now eleven am on thursday thanks for choosing us to update you on whats happening around the world this hour first for you the exotic portuguese island of terser in the azores in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is in desperate need of decontamination decades us air force activity have allegedly left it polluted with hydrocarbons and heavy metals and islanders say theyre worried about the prevalence of cancer and other serious illnesses. Were back to twenty thousand the course is not constant its also lights rule this is another constant were now at eighteen twenty one to two thousand leave my two thousand plants in two thousand. And its time to run away from here as weve already stay too long. But we have is a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by heavy metals the hydrocarbons the heavy metals have serious effects on health there are very high levels of lead in some zones copper zinc molybdenum all of them have a matters that in certain concentrations can cause to realty cancer arrhythmia and neverending amounts of problems associated with an excess of the substances. They take that one im thirty four years old and i lived my whole life in gaia the victoria right by the entrance of the american base all my family faith in that area both of my parents died of cancer my mom of Breast Cancer and my dad with a different kind of cancer when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Musician the more cancer cases their eyes. The more the pew lation asks why is this happening why is brian david storey on the roads is that on one side all houses have or had at least one case of cancer and on the other side its almost every other house that is not normal. The us has maintained a presence on the island since nine hundred forty three tests are a serve as a stopover for transatlantic military flights and it houses the sixty fifth base Group Although its not known how many personalities are in the station there there are one hundred sixty one houses to accommodate the one former employee told us about the health risks that workers there have also been exposed to all of you going to admit there was also a Senate Commission that came to the cerro to check way illegal proceeds from some members of the American Military who are dying of terminal cancer and were exposed to radioactivity. They were here for about one week and during this time i found out what they were doing here they were here to confirm the existence of radiation on to sarah island radioactive contamination the dar environmental situation on the island was first acknowledged in a declassified report written in two thousand and three it details seventeen major fuel spills and one fifteen thousand gallons of oil were released when a pipeline was unintentionally activated that was in one thousand nine hundred four theres been no cleanup since the report stresses of the islands inhabitants were at risk from contaminants in the soil and water heres what local experts have been telling us. Well. We found in the data that was published referring to the two thousand and seven two thousand and eleven period a higher number of certain cancers in the prior divots or area than the rest of the source especially regarding the rarer cancers for example i can see with thirty three percent of those or cases being in prior divots or while the area has only eight point five two percent of the story in population. Where this is a hell the repeat itself on various islands 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 capacity to take a stance maybe as a result of scientific illiteracy or a lack of knowledge on the cause effect relations weve contacted both the United States and the portuguese governments about this we havent had any responses to these specific questions that we have asked them but the us did forward us a press release from december last year it says that the protection of the islands environment and the health of its population or of the utmost importance to both governments. Germanys best selling newspapers published what it thought was smoking gun evidence of russian meddling in the countrys politics but in its rush to break the sensational story the tabloid failed to check its sources and that backfired spectacularly as my guest you 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 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 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 spider movie did kevin im ury id like to talk to you about supporting your no girl Code Campaign thanks for your mail j. 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 scholtz 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 tadic 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 very few cation what with there and t s b d stands and tabloid routes even the email tributed to kevin kuhn or it was fake couldnt have sent anything from it other german publications saw the exchange and realized it was specious but theirs to tally it explained bill that was just too excited im anonymous email to all three calls and build prints everything that fits its agenda remember the drinks name me oh me oh matty ginger well thats now trending on twitter as germans online ridicule build. Given in the star of the show is suing billed for libel and slander but judging by the picture that hes posted hes also enjoying the show or as more of mention the social Democratic Party two thousand leader named in the prank isnt happy about any of this and he insists that if he had really been made such an offer he would have flatly refused it. Popova i mean it is here but i dont know but this group but of course we would refuse any of these offers we dont work with social clubs i dont have information that will even receive any offers. A satirical magazine behind the hoax posted this triumphant photo online shows one of its employees posing with the transcript of the fake emails and also the build article one of the pranksters told us how easy it was to pull off. Were to turn it over to rick a magazine we work with the same. Methods as a built so we knew how to finkel i can build editor and what we did was we came up with a story that was techie like in the spine and we had a good feeling that this would work when theres a story like this for four built they dont care about details its only interesting if the story is good and it was a good story indeed and it was. Like a good movie i hope it will be made into a movie sometime to. The readers of built just like the editors a builder but there are hopeless cases so you cant help them i dont think anyone will learn anything. New we turn ignore the people at build or german politicians or the german people but it was a good laugh now. And i think thats worth something. And is growing among right wing twitter users following an apparent bot purge on the social network a number of prominent commentators have claimed that their accounts were wrongly targeted and that the site crackdown is actually part of a sustained attack on conservative speech the hash tag twitter lockout began trending on the site shortly after the suspensions a number of right leaning users claim to have lost thousands of followers as a result of the initiative to remove accounts that automatically post tweets and some believe the move is linked to a pledge twitter made in january to combat alleged kremlin interference in us political life its been claimed that the russian bots have been used to amplify and spread divisive views on the network including those voiced by right wing commentators we spoke to one user whose accounts been suspended she was somewhat surprised to hear about a parent connection to the kremlin. Been on twitter since two thousand and ten basically when i realized it was permanent i was a little shot they were actually q. s in me being a russian operative. That i was somehow working for russia part of the russian bots that were. Sending out negative information during the election. In the past couple of years a team of investigative journalists known as project veritas of cost doubt on how twitter determines who should be blocked but. You know i want to. Like. Rob. Ford meanwhile to top us democrats of called on congress to provide the f. B. I. With 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 russia a media analyst lionel told us however that it would be a waste of money three hundred Million Dollars. 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 can 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 you could pin you trying to find nothing. And to prove or to expose or to ferret out examples of russian collusion where curative or have. Not the Democratic Party are vowing more money more money or more not to stop real crime where the real victims real pain and real sad you know they were to go after russia in collusion. Well meddling accusations but this time from a different quarter the 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 a despot research by an american historian recently found that washington tried to influence eighty one foreign elections between World War Two the turn of the century and one former cia chief admits its still happening. We dont do that now though we dont mess around other people. Are only for a very good to do that through a vine video and those former cia for a very good cause and. 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 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 find it the height of hypocrisy myself so this is just nonsense just absolute nonsense on top of all that with fears of kremlin meddling continuing to large in the public consciousness in the United States it seems russia is also having a major influence on the english language right now. The Previous Administration kicked the russians out of their doctrine we have kept them out of their top. The snow old k. G. B. Colonel after i chaired. Russia had engaged in attempts at developing culprit i mocked. A similar devious sort of inner circle their business interests have remained fairly stable. For the top of the pyramid of what so as the resident tour which is where the f. S. B. The s. P. R. And the g. R. U. The military intelligence guys are. So stick with us youll be fluent in no time now weve learned in the past few minutes the two medal winning russian curlers have been stripped of the bronze medals at the Winter Olympics the details coming up next. No. French. For you its exactly four years since ukraines president on a covert was overthrown as the result of a Popular Uprising that began in kiev in november twenty third the protests which initially were peaceful began in response to endemic corruption and the governments decision to abandon an economic deal with the e. U. But they quickly spiraled out of control. Years on from the uprising some of them i dont activists now see the protests in a very different light they say their hopes for meaningful change in the country have not materialized we spoke to one of them about a change of heart. The students compassion for them and sharing that Anti Corruption and social ranted ideas which recent cme but were hijacked by the want to gox almost at the very start. Using it is a i believe it was a mistake to fall for the slogans of the nationalists my personal mistake is that i should have realized that much sooner the people who started those spontaneous protest could answer the question of what they were against but couldnt say what they stood for that was the key problem they didnt have a plan and therefore allowed themselves to be used but i have no right to judge people for taking part in the protests. But its thought that people at my done were supporting socalled European Values but can a country be called european if it sits at the bottom of the least on freedom of speech if its a country where journalists get killed in rest of the persecuted why did the revolution for freedom not result in freedom and if europe stands for multiculturalism why did the european revolution in ukraine result in the victory of nationalist radicals there mantises and became a smokescreen for extremist slogans which had nothing to do with the initial protests. During the uprising the protesters in kiev received strong support from both the us and the e. U. Top american politicians were seen addressing crowds of people at the demonstrations and even distributing bread european officials also involve themselves in the gosia regions between the two opposing sides but now the bloc appears to have become somewhat disillusioned with the countrys ability to deliver reforms and the latest illustration of where the e. U. Is reportedly decided to shut down a border checkpoint scheme with ukraine which was supposedly to ease customs proceedings and boost trade we discussed that with political analyst martin mccauley. Crane from brussels point of view from the very can point of view is an important state but these countries wish to keep ukraine as a partner as a friend and never allow. But theyre friendly increasingly difficult the European Union and western europe are becoming increasingly tired of ukraine and exasperated at the lack of progress. In certain areas the main problem is corruption within the government within the state the elites. Who are in fact siphoning off some of the money for themselves or awarding contracts in the u. So European Union has been. Hoping that ukraine would begin to limit corruption within the state for years well two decades now so therefore very slow progress is really achieved and unless its cheve the ukraine of the European Union in the western world will not come closer together. Ok just to update you on the story i told you about just before the break two olympic athletes from russia have been stripped of their bronze medals in curling by the court of arbitration for sport after one of them tested positive for a banned substance it was only confirmed that two samples provided by alexander. Both contained only in which is a performance enhancing drug the athlete and his wife and team mate honest to see a press gallery one the first medal for russians in the curling last week he denies that he took the drug intentionally but didnt intend but didnt attend a hearing in the court. Its silly to deny it dont prove violations when the presence of a prohibited substance was confirmed by two 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 casts hearings and i think in this situation its useless and senseless as reaction from the russian cutting federation is well it says that by not taking the case to court for arbitration for sport on its case in no way admitting any guilt in this or the decision was reportedly only taken to spare the athlete and his teammates the emotional burden of going through with any Court Hearing now the federation says its going to work to try and prove crucial in its keys innocence and have those medals reinstated well keep you posted on that. But thats your news for now thanks very much for watching head to r. T. Dot com for the latest breaking developments ill be back right here in thirty five minutes of deceit. 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Landscapes around the world hes often quoted in the media and often writes about contemporary Financial Issues he covers the waterfront from issues from Regulatory Compliance to Digital Currencies advising buy and sell side clients and many others in fact gary isnt just a councillor of law hes a professor of law as taught classes really close just over the river at Brooklyn Law School well get to that interview in a minute plus well delve deeper into Digital Currencies and that debate with a very special guest reporter michael dell chrystia hes a Senior Reporter with coin desk which is the predominant global publication covering Digital Currencies this interview is a great get for a boom bust because michael is a guy who talks with the cutting edge people in the Digital Currency space ive got lots of questions for michael including whats the most interesting thing he sees in Digital Currencies that we dont know and before we go well take a quick tour of time square and the canyon of white sits behind me and the enormous energy thats all coming up but first we have a special guest. And we could not be in new york without calling upon our tea correspondent trinity charges whos done such a great job not just for boom bust but for our two American General attorney thank you for being with us here at nasdaq thank you for having me mark so we are here in one of the most influential Financial Hardship not only in the world but in new york announced that just right behind the screen that you see is actually their market site but whats interesting about the nasdaq is the fact that no trading actually goes on inside this building its actually more of a Television Studio all the trading happens closer to washington d. C. And maryland and a lot of people dont know that yet happens in bethesda not too far from boom bust ive done a bunch of t. V. Interviews in here and its sort of freaky actually the they do ring the bell here where and the theres a podium where the companies that are listed if it comes out of the floor rises up out of the floor