We have an important guest with a limited timeframe, so we are going to get started. I am ellen weintraub, chair of the federal Election Commission and i am delighted to welcome you to digital disinformation and the threat to democracy, information integrity in the 2020 election. A symposium i am cosponsoring with pan america and the digital policy incubator. This information has become a newly potent threat in the digital era. It has weaponize dare most cherished freedoms, some discord and undermined democracies worldwide. In the west we saw russia deploy disinformation as one of its tools, when, in the words of the mueller report, the russian government interfered in the 2016 president ial election in sweeping and systematic fashion. Alarms are being sounded throughout americas intelligence community, in the halls of congress by the departments of Homeland Security and justice, and by many of the experts who have generously taken time to speak to you today. They worn these attacks ar
Off the job at 31. 00 Assembly Lines across the country theyre frightened to stay on strike until an agreement is reached. And the United Nations is warning that Rohingya Muslims who remain in myanmar are living under the threat of genocide the un is repeating calls for top generals to face trial for forcing iran 3 quarters of a 1000000 to flee to bangladesh 2 years ago the un also says it has serious concerns about a crackdown on refugee camps in bangladesh it says aid workers accused of supporting rohingya protests last month have been banned their phones confiscated and a curfew imposed. Indonesias government to scrambling to control widespread forest fires which are causing a toxic case to spread to other countries this off smoke is causing causing a lot of respiratory problems and disrupting fights has more from the city of peckham baro in indonesia. Were in peckham bar city in the province of rio on the island of sumatra where 40000 hectares of land have been covered by smog and
James bays has more on this now from new york normally this monthly meeting deals with the grim reality of life inside yemen but it was overtaken by events on the other side of the saudi border one thing we can be certain and that is this extremely serious incident like the traditions of a regional conflict. And the report more that much. With yemen in some way or. None of that. Is good for you. And this is so far in just his 2nd appearance in the Security Council the new u. S. Ambassador made it clear washington believes these didnt stage this attack on the road claims of responsibility have been made but as secretary of state mike pompei all has clearly stated there is no evidence that the attacks came from yemen. Emerging information indicates that responsibility lies with iran are the u. S. Allies still party to the nuclear deal with iran did not apportion blame at the moment were still assessing what happened and who is responsible for the attorneys once this is been stablished we
Vote in a 2nd general election in less than 6 months. And General Motors strike close to 50000. 00 employees stop work at americas biggest carmaker. Now u. S. President says its looking like that iran was behind saturdays attacks that crippled more than haul off of saudi arabias Oil Production but he says he doesnt want a war and will wait to see definitive proof of tehran involvement before deciding how to respond now americas close ally the u. K. Says it will work with International Partners to prepare quote the widest and most Effective Response saudi arabia has reiterated the attacks were carried out using iranian weapons but tehran maintains its not responsible yemens through the rebels say they were behind the attacks and it warns that more strikes are coming well gablers on day begins our coverage from washington d. C. President donald trump says the u. S. Is still collecting and analyzing intelligence related to saturdays attack on Saudi Oil Facilities but says all evidence gat
Numbers from part about here thats an important point to make rob because were just hearing on our wires here that ambulances who are responding to the explosions certainly in power one outside the capital have said that women and children are among those whove been killed and injured and that most of the victims seem to be civilians so indeed as you say civilians always seem to be caught up in the crossfire here rob just very quickly in terms of the 2 separate incidents the one at the u. S. Embassy reports of an explosion there and possible gun which cant be confirmed yet and then also the bigger explosion earlier in part one is a sense perhaps that these 2 incidents might be called latent. Well i mean it just happens that they have happened within the same hour but on any given hour in any given day throughout afghanistan you get a number of incidents happening i think it has to be said that obviously there is far more attention paid to all of these incidents especially when they tak