A chlorine attack perpetrated by that most evil of supervillains bashar al assad. So today my friends lets have ourselves a wiki leaks sponsor doing a report Reading Party so we can educate ourselves and now institutions like the o. P. C. W can be manipulated as we start watching the hawks. Like you that i got. This. Well going to watching the hawks i am sure and joining us today from deep in the heart of ron paul country is Daniel Mcadams the executive director of the ron pauls to peace and prosperity always a pleasure having you on daniel thank you. Great to be with you guys a real thanks for having me on so down just how much of a extremely big can of worms inside the o. P. C. W. As wiki leaks opened with this latest round of insider memos and unredacted report releases. Its absolutely unbelievable listen remarkable release it just it just goes along with what weve been seeing though and this goes back months and months where we saw originally a leak or a couple of months ago we saw
To Eliot Higgins, founder of the open source investigations website bellingcat. Welcome to hardtalk, with me, stephen sackur. What is the truth behind the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight mh17 or the poisoning of the former russian spy Sergei Skripal, or the recent assassination of a Chechen Rebel fighter in berlin. My guest today thinks he can piece together truths from the World Wide Web. He is Eliot Higgins, the founder of investigative website bellingcat. In an age beset by fake news, has he really found a way to distinguish fact from fiction . Eliot higgins, welcome to hardtalk. I want to start if i may with a self definition. Would you describe yourself as a journalist or a data analyst or some sort of online detective . I like online detective. We do acts ofjournalism and some of the work we are doing but really, the way we work with bellingcat uses open source investigation on a whole range of topics that go beyond journalism. I find it very difficult to define what we
Biased toward the assad regime well im not biased toward the assad regime i just think we ought to understand what happened here. Live from moscow news h. Q. Just go to 5 pm here in moscow watching r. T. International Daniel Hawkins here with me tonight. Russia intends to meddle in next years president ial election that was the light hearted response from Vladimir Putin in answer to a question about moscows plans. Russia. Attempting to influence the 2020 lections states psychiatrist. Secretly yes we will indeed do that so we could. Please dont tell anybody ok well thats quite a statement coming from the russian president but you have to take it with a pinch of salt because he was obviously joking but on a more serious note he was addressing probably what might be come russia did it his area of volume 2 now after all the numerous investigations that weve seen into russias alleged meddling in the us president ial elections back in 2016 all the media hype that weve seen in the past 2 year
of truth, dignity and respect. in a speech to cheering supporters in prague, petr pavel said it was time to return those values to politics. now on bbc news: the media show. hello. with the conservative chairman nadhim zahawi s tax affairs dominating the headlines, we will be talking to two of the people behind the story. and later in the programme, netflix films have picked up a load of oscar nominations. closer to home, the streamer has just bought its first welsh language tv drama. llinos griffin williams from sac is one of the people involved in the deal. congratulations. what is the show called and what it is about? it is called dal y mellt, it has been produced by rocks pictures, and it has got mark lewisjones in it and it is a cheeky heist based on the adaptation of a novel by ewan roberts, who also wrote the script. so it is a crime drama, but with a bit of a twist. sounds great, and we will hear much more about it later. but first, if you were watching prime minister
he founded the legendary art rock band, television, famous for their seminal debut album marquee moon. you re watching bbc news. now its time for the media show. hello. with the conservative chairman nadhim zahawi s tax affairs dominating the headlines, we will be talking to two of the people behind the story. and later in the programme, netflix films have picked up a load of oscar nominations. closer to home, the streamer has just bought its first welsh language tv drama. llinos griffin williams from sac is one of the people involved in the deal. congratulations, llinos. what is the show called and what it is about? it is called dal y mellt. it has been produced by vox pictures, and it has got mark lewisjones in it and newcomer gwion morris jones. it is a cheeky heist based on the adaptation of a novel by iwan h roberts, who also wrote the script. so it is a crime drama, but with a bit of a twist. sounds great, and we will hear much more about it later. but first, if you w