bots there are all over the media news about that the first question that i asked the pentagon what is your intention guys for this particular new projects we sent them out their requests to comment they didn't get back to us for now but the languages are either regions will give you a hint and also some experts have already told us that it's part of a u.s. campaign could be to expand their online influence and capabilities something that they have been up to for years but really the sophistication of this new project machines being able to analyze the emotions and the sentiment of comments online that's something alarming. well we took the chance to speak to n.s.a. whistleblower william binney and former m i five agent about the push to develop advance bots in the outline some of the implications of using such technologies. really want to do is be able to monitor royce communications or any kind of communications text and be able to assess and. check and who are the threats or things like that or even. from some of the manipulation programs even respond. and try to manipulate the other person at the other end so i mean our intelligence agencies had this is one of their objectives why papers are generally circulated among contractors who do business with the government so it is a little unusual to see these things out in the public as far as i know the most obvious interpretation would be that this is a pushback against the allegations that have been made consistently for the last eighteen months about so-called russian troll farms influencing elections across the west and it's interesting to see that the languages that they're advertising for are the language of iran and of course north korea and russia so that would be a bit of a sort of give away about which countries they want to be targeting. the trump administration has opted to extend sanctions relief for a run for another one hundred twenty days a decision that will for now prevent the lun mark twenty fifteen you can deal from falling through at the same time though the u.s. treasury has imposed a separate sanctions on fourteen individuals and entities over tehran's ballistic missile program and alleged human rights abuses ok translating what all that means let's cross live to see here at cannes for the teeth either so we are somewhat of mixed signals being sent out here isn't there talk us through the developments. definitely you know even though trump has repeatedly vowed to tear up the iran deal he has decided to keep the deal intact extending sanctions relief but also warning that this will be the last time until the deal is strengthened but sanctions will be added on iranian entities for a legit support for terrorist groups now this comes after his national security advisers other signatories have all urged him to comply with the agreement so trump so at the last deadline trump waive sanctions but decertified iran's compliance with did it with the deal due to iran's a ballistic missile activity which is completely unrelated a it's not part of the deal and b. iran's ballistic missiles aren't even capable of carrying nuclear weapons but trump has always accused the country of violating be quote spirit of the deal which really means iran hasn't violated the deal and washington is fully aware that the i.a.e.a. other signatories and even his own officials said that trump is in full compliance with the deal now the c.p.o. way was signed in two thousand and fifteen and it was hailed as a breakthrough in u.s. iran relations as it ended international concern over iran's nuclear program and its often described as obama's signature foreign policy agreement but the u.s. is alone in hating the deal the e.u. has been urging washington to stick to it for months now and just yesterday top you diplomats met with the iranian foreign minister in brussels to reaffirm their support for the deal with take a quick look. breaking the trees here way that you give you the room the deal is working you want to. protect just a few a new. page for this to make sure that the lifting of nuclear maybe sanctions has a positive impact on trade iran is in comply with this agreement of the only agreement which prevents us from the proliferation of nuclear weapons is crucial for the security of the region but also for the security of the. now trump has always hated the deal he's even threatened you know unilateral action to end the deal and he's attacked diplomats who negotiated the deal. of the worst deals i've ever seen good disasters deal with a rare one of the dumbest details and one of the week is contracts the people that negotiated that deal namely kerry and his friends are incompetent one of the worst deals ever negotiated. now we'll just have to wait and see how the international community reacts to all of this it would be interesting just to find out was the was the e.u. pressure on washington did it make a big change of heart find more in the coming days i'm sure assume your account at life without story thank you. let us review about country iran is part of its ongoing operations in syria after the fall of us in the mix among the key reasons a military presence will remain there but was made during a senate hearing on thursday the president has committed as a matter of strategy that we will not leave syria we're going to stay for several reasons stabilization and assistance in the vital north and northeast protection of our allies the syrian democratic forces but for other reasons as well including countering iran how so with force with troops with. diplomacy which one of those senators combination of measures first and foremost it is aggressive sanctioning and measures undertaken by the us and our partners when we discuss the announcement with dr buss some. professor of political science is that the muskets university he says the u.s. has no legal right to be in syria. what. seed in the congress. shows that america is lying god the time is smitten with this administration first of all before the. fight against terrorism then i says now we are hearing another reason. the one to give us a model of democracy. to see that america where is their models in afghanistan or in iraq or where america is there are a problem the reasons behind mr certain. of international law everyone knows they are not in syria by invitation of legal syrian government they are not going to themselves by the. loser aleutian so they are competitors meanwhile russia's defense ministry say its military has quote destroyed the militants it believes were responsible for an attack on one of its bases in syria on the thirty first of december now it saves the fighters were tracked down using drones and other intelligence data they were struck as the reporting in minibus the new year's eve attack on the russian air base left two servicemen ted the defense ministry says no warplanes were damaged in that incident despite reports to the contrary moscow also say's it has destroyed a militant run facility and that was used for building drills that follows a separate on successful attack on two other russian bases last week in which on manned aerial vehicles were used on thursday president putin said in a press conference that he know who was behind the assault. there were provocateurs that play there but see it wasn't the turks we know who they are as regards the attacks themselves we have no doubt they'd been well prepared beforehand and those drones were made to look makeshift but in actual fact they clearly contain high tech elements that couldn't possibly have been assembled on the ground in syria. one of britain's leading all girl schools has decided to stop referring to its pupils as girls in a controversial move to adopt more gender neutral language altering the grammar school for girls defended its policy saying they were trying to break in grained hubbert's to help students with gender identity issues i think that quote we welcome and celebrate diversity although some people have already come up with alternative names for the school itself. or at the same time. it has no plan to drop the word girls from its title we asked some of the locals what they think of the new gender neutral policy. i think a majority of us would be happy to be called girls ridiculous i think girls are girls and boys are boys there's too many pressures on pupils too much attempt to move everything towards gender neutrality i think it actually leads to more confusion rather than clarification this is a girls' school and it's extraordinary that children are being encouraged to go along the path we're going to have more and more children with mental health problems who are confused and unhappy by all means support children who have a gender issue but don't do it at the expense of the majority do not rob them of their gender identity we only need to apply those basic principles of religions that we treat other people how we wish to be treated and we solve the problem we need to stop for a sting pushing adult neuroses onto these young children. germany's major parties have seemingly overcome a number of stumbling blocks as they look to form a new government however the longest period of causation building since the second world war looks likely to return the same people on parties to power for another term charlotte dubin skis in berlin for us with the details. but what we know is this is a very small step on the way to potentially forming a new grand coalition between these parties and then forming a government here in germany but is it a government that the german people want if we look at the elections both of these parties actually lost support in the last election which is less than threatening to be able to find coalition partners in fact many people in germany are unhappy with the idea of returning to this old grand coalition style these are the two parties who worked together in the previous tenant see here in germany fifty two percent of people in a poll that was held by a german public broadcaster say they didn't want these two to get back together and that has not been left unnoticed by the party leaders themselves. more of this is the right response to september's election all three of us were far from impressed with the results back then it was a signal to politicians that things can't continue down this path anymore. well one of the things that the c.d.u. and the social democrats have agreed on is that they will look to limit the number of migrants coming into germany asylum seekers and refugees that would be between one hundred eighty and two hundred and twenty thousand people limited annually that also be no tax increases and there would be more money for the e.u. but this is a small step on a long path to go that is very tricky from here on out the social democrats have to take this blueprint back to their party members their party members have to approve it that vote will take place on january twenty first if it's approved then they can start formal coalition negotiations but then whatever is agreed to in those coalition negotiations will again have to be put back to the social democrats them to vote on so angela merkel may be out of the woods but this is far from over and germany could be without a government. and many many more weeks. now if you're hiding from justice avoiding using social media too much might be a useful tip a lesson learned the hard way by one former japanese guy. who's been on the run for more than a decade. to to. it is our friday night news all dates from moscow for not all the bucket half an hour's time with plenty more besides but stay with us now for more r.t. programs right around the corner. make its manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. with the famous. neither one. nor middle of the room sit. in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with the tax haven secrets two trillion united states dollars passed through most. in the amount of time that we've been in panama papers exposure that's what it shows a lot of money it really is. journalism it's a fact of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of. documents were examining. all the people we basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of. newspaper. and probably other politician which were. other politicians the media were quick to find targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and russian president vladimir putin of course. that's had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was very striking there were no more americans to go especially a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. of the panama chronicles. welcome to sophie and co and sophie shevardnadze in this thing in the military this woman never thought she'd be in danger from her. soldiers grapes assaulted and harassed she was forced into a struggle that ended her career to victims of rape have a fair chance of justice in the u.s. military air force veteran and military rape crisis center worker jennifer norris is with me today to share the story of her back home. american women are reaching the highest ranks in the modern military but away from the front lines to find themselves defenseless against a threat much closer to home why is sexual assault so rampant in the u.s. military what happens to victims who did to speak out this is the pentagon willing to concede be its own soldiers face. jennifer norris retired u.s. air force veteran activist in the military rape center who herself had firsthand experience of sexual assault in the military sank you for joining us on this program. i want to start right away now the first time this happened you were drugged by your recruiter did heat shrink you're into having sex with them do you have any recollection of how the incident happened when i look back on the incident and i realize that i was actually tricked by this man to even go to the party to begin with he had told me that it was a new recruit party for other recruits and i was excited to go meet them because they would understand exactly how i felt so he had ill intentions from the get go because when i got there there were no new recruits i was the only one. how many times were you subjected to sexual assault or abuse or is it just that one case. it started with that one case and i thought that maybe it would be over after that that i was just on lucky at the wrong place at the wrong time so i pushed forward but unfortunately as i entered into the military service it happened again and again and again within the first two years of service so tell me this why didn't you report straight away after that happened the first time i didn't report the first time because i hadn't even gone to basic training yet and i didn't really know what to say to i don't even know where to go if i was supposed to go to a commander in the military if i was supposed supposed to go to the police department i was completely clueless as to what sexual assault and rape in harassment were at that time so i just tried to soldier on and move forward with a career that i was looking forward to doing for at least twenty years so what happens at that moment when you know you are assaulted sexually what what do you feel what do you go through is it guilt is it shaped is it what uncertainty. it used to be shame because i used to feel like i was an eighty eight for going to this person's party but after years of counseling and working with rape victim advocates i learned that predators operate in much the same way they're very manipulative and they will set you up for an attack or they will take advantage of an opportunity and so now i realize it was a calculated crime but it took me years to realize that so far those. who hasn't been faced with this kind of ordeal but you know what danger is always there tell us how do this manipulators actually trick their victims into it how do they lure you in. i think they do what you would call grooming so they make you believe that they're trustworthy and that they're going to take care of you and it almost seems like it's too good to be true and so when you're naive you don't necessarily realize that not everybody is speaking at face value so as an eighteen year old or even a twenty four year old it's easy to fall prey to the niceties because you don't know that there's evil lurking behind it and i think that's the real danger of these these kind of people and how they operate is that it's they're able to get to us based on a trust that has been established in the military we depend in are dependent on each other in every way especially in trust so how old were you like eighteen when that happened no i was actually twenty four i had already graduated from college as a social worker i worked in the field for a couple years i worked with as a case manager i worked on a suicide crisis hotline and then i decided i wanted to go and get my master's degree and the military offered a g.i. bill that could help me accomplish those goals so that's the number one reason that i joined aside from being patriotic and wanting to give back in being involved in something that was bigger than myself ok so i was completely clueless as to what was in store ok you know one woman who went through a similar ordeal air force sergeant marti riviera she said that the military has a way of making females believe they brought this upon themselves do you feel that as well. yes did you blame yourself for what happened i did for the longest time because especially with the recruiters incident i. says if i knew that as soon as i walked through that door that there was danger but it was too late to turn. back and that particular incident taught me a lot about how to take care of myself in the future unfortunately if you're working for someone that's assaulting you you can't escape them so no i don't have shame or blame or any of that stuff anymore as far as what i did all i did was go to work in uniform and these people took advantage of their power an opportunity and that's what we're trying to change is that. it's taken more seriously if someone doesn't factor abuse their power in that kind of a sad i'm trying to figure out the psychological aspect of it how exactly does the holes military structure make you feel guilty for what has happened and not the other way around i understand so. given the way that you were poor currently in the military it's not you don't go to a police office to report a crime you're supposed to report it to your commander in my particular case and in a lot of soldiers cases that the commander is also has a relationship with the perpetrator and he may or may not have known the perpetrator way longer than he knows you and so what it does is it creates an atmosphere of intimidation that if you see your commander hanging out with the same guy who assaulted you then you feel like oh wow he's not going to take me seriously that looks like they're both really good friends and then when you do go ahead and report the first thing that the defense attorneys start looking into is whether or not you're this here that you know how do you conduct yourself you know they immediately go into well you shouldn't have been at this place and if you hadn't you know that wouldn't happen well they could've done that to me too but it's not our fault that i know we thought we were attending what was supposed to be but i'm thinking jennifer i'm thinking there are also other women working in the military i mean they you know there are there are compassionate creatures you could have shared your story with them they certainly would understand what you want through especially if this happens all the time maybe there are other women alongside you who are actually subjected to the same sexual assaults did you share your story with any of your female peers what i learned is that first of all i was one of very few women in my squadron there may have. ben if we were lucky three of them and one of them is in and ministration our personnel and then maybe there's another one in another shop but i was the only female that was working for satellite communications in combat communications so no i didn't have other females that i could turn to and say you know hey this happen to me as a matter of fact i didn't want anyone to know that this had happened to me because i didn't want to be judged unfortunately it appears that once people learn that you've reported a sexual assault or may have been involved in an incident that they become scared of you instead of being scared of the perpetrator they think that you're going to be hypersensitive to if they swear or if they say something in offense you know offensive when in fact it's not going to be that way at all so there's a culture of fear built up in the military and i think that's why they want to automatically blame it on the woman because if she goes away the problem goes away and they can get back to work as normal human rights watch reports very dire picture of what happens to victims of sexual assault and they say i quote. that these people are being spat on deprived of food assailed with obscenity threatened with friendly fire during deployment discharged for misconduct is it true is it really that dangerous to come forward it is in some cases it just depends on your situation if you're isolated you're in way more danger than say other people would be on some big base that has security forces in a in a jag office but if you're in someplace like the eighty's or is or you know in some other random location across the world in all you have is the people that are with you then yes you could being in grave danger if in fact someone harms you and threatens you and says that if you say anything that they they will kill you it happens i research it we have had non-combat deaths occur overseas that include homicide and unsolved cases that nobody is talking about and that's what we're trying to tell people is. did you get threats where you threatened. yes not only was i threatened but i was physically beat after i reported by one of the perpetrators friends the entire squadron turned on me i was automatically the liar even though they didn't know the circumstances and even though we did have proof and we were able to move forward with two of the four cases the other people in the squadron did not know what had happened so they believed the perpetrator who was able to tell them the story while i was at some other squadron waiting for the case to go through but see for me it's just mind boggling that you're saying you just like standing there harassed assaulted in the open with other people just standing by and not interfering how come no one interfered why didn't troops come forward for a fellow soldier why did.

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