this is. better than. the see. the world. of social media to spread content. on the channel back in twenty. the senate says they didn't know. amid questions bush early this month. but i didn't know there was a thousand troops and. you didn't know we had a thousand troops and you know why didn't the. people back it. looks to levy a charge on news outlets. company

watching the international chief business officer has been scrutinized by the media over his appearance on this channel four years ago can still has been accused of having a cozy relationship with bolstering online presence as. what it would appear that the new york times has been sifting through its archives and is it marked the year twenty thirty now you might remember that twenty thirty was a pretty good year for r.t. that was the year that we became the first news network to surpass one billion views on new cheap and so we decided to mark the occasion we invited a guest in from you tube and that happened to be what we can so that was the your vice president at the time i think users generally appreciate its authenticity it's very apparent from everything that's going on on you tube so instead of having aspirational programming or agenda propagandise people really respond to all sorts

of sort of what you saw happening with arab spring for instance who was authentic the audience that watches this was listen to city and with those who provided to them for years later and r.t. is the most watched news network on you tube we now have over five billion views but to some people are success is very suspicious and so the fact the new york times decided to single out probate kinsler piers to be an attempt to name and shame him for ever apparent on r.t. but this isn't the first time we've seen this done thing back to the u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson not so long ago shaming members of the opposition party for appearing as guests on r.t. despite the fact that even members of his own party and even his own father have also appeared as guests on some of our t.v. shows and then there's a european think tank going to all the trouble to make a list of every single person who's ever appeared on r.t. and branding them useful idiots many people in europe and the us including politicians and the persons of influence continue to exhibit it's troubling naivety

about r.t.s. political agenda these useful idiots remain oblivious to r.t.s. intentions and boost its legitimacy by granting interviews on the shows and news casts and i'm sorry to say that all the effort that went into that list it wasn't even factually correct was i remember something about boris johnson. so generally speaking where is all this pressure on russia coming from when all this stems from these. unproven accusations that r.t. played a hand in swaying the american votes we somehow managed to convince american people to vote for donald trump over hillary clinton and as a result just last month the u.s. justice department demanded that our us based channel r.t. america register under the foreign agents act and after which moscow has said it just simply can't will not to attack measures anymore as r.t. faces all of this increasing pressure we've chosen to deal with it in the best way that we can and we've come up with a new ad campaign in which we thought people would find it amusing and ironic we

make light of these accusations we say zoom in to find out who we're going to hack next but quite predictably even our sense of humor has come under scrutiny when i was in there speaking to me earlier meanwhile facebook users in six countries have hit back at the social media giant which is trying to charge a news outlets for their posts. as more on that. well this is potentially one of the biggest changes to the way facebook works since its inception thirteen years ago and it's basically trying out a new feature that's called explore it off is uses things from further afield that they wouldn't normally have in their news feeds but in six countries in sri lanka bolivia slovakia serbia guatemala and cambodia that experiment has gone further afield users in those countries have had their news feeds purged completely all of the news posts unless it's sponsored content so any news organization that

wants its post to come up in the uses of those countries news feeds will have to pay for the privilege and the news organizations in those countries are already feeling the effects they're talking about a drop in all gammick reach a slovakian journalist has written a piece all about how they've had four times fewer interactions since these changes came in news organizations of course rely on facebook as a way of getting more hits on their posts a lot of stuff goes viral through facebook specifically so it's a vital tool for publishers and it's not just concern from smaller news organizations and the non-mainstream ones but it's also a concern further down the line for freedom of the press in general because by creating a barrier that creates you know i need for publishers to pay for people to see what they're posting your effectively curating the news agenda or dare i say it

potentially censoring it as well so at the same time you've got facebook telling news organizations to calm down and get a grip this is what the head of its news feed had to say in response to the concerns in a facebook post take a listen the goal of this test is to understand if people prefer to have separate places for personal and public content. we will hear what people say about the experience to understand if it's annoyed day worth pursuing any further there is no current plans to roll this out beyond these test countries or to charge pages on facebook to pay for all of the distribution in news feed or explore smaller news organizations awake at night that is current he said there are no current plans so that clearly evening the option open that's got a lot of news outlets worried about a slip back in john s. that has alerted the online world to this issue he doesn't think it's going to work he says the news feed without news is going to uses pretty quickly to

how utterly boring that friends are it was well the online community has lashed out over this the social media network will be supplying people what they want them to hear also for severing the link between you organizations and uses independent journalists martin summers says facebook is abusing its power. well i think this is an abuse of the monopoly powers and facebook and the of the major u.s. internet companies of basically trying to do all the experimenting with this to see if they can use their monopoly power to increase their profits but also more sinisterly they're in there working with the u.s. intelligence services to censor the news it's not really a competitive market one of the other sinister things that doing is d. monetizing people they don't like there's actually calls from across the spectrum

in the u.s. for the internet complete to be treated like utilities and they really got to be run by the government all the got to be regulated by the government to ensure that a competitive market exists. now as the u.s. military and congress try to piece together what led to the deaths of american servicemen in this year earlier this month it seems that many lawmakers had no idea about the presence of their troops in matter african country three weeks ago four u.s. servicemen and ten local troops were killed in an ambush by icicle fight is authentic and says the group had no full support until two hours after the battle began according to estimates has the second largest u.s. military presence in africa eight hundred out of six thousand troops across the continent and she beauty has the most with four thousand servicemen and then comes somalia and also cameroon with four hundred and three hundred soldiers respectively

but it could soon be difficult to tell exactly how many troops the u.s. has any where is america reports. so it's official washington is intervene in so many different countries even u.s. senators seem to have lost track but i didn't know there was a thousand troops in niger this is an endless war without bare boundaries no limitation of damage yard and senator graham is not the only one u.s. senator graham there he didn't know we had a thousand troops in. where did you know i didn't and there you have it two sitting senior senators one republican and the other a democrat had no idea the us currently has troops so how is this possible past administrations have used the authorization for use of military force against terrorists or the to use force against those who planned committed or aided the nine eleven attacks and only one person voted against it congressman. let's step back for a moment let's just just for

a minute and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control according to a two thousand and sixteen congressional research office report the bush and obama administrations used on thirty seven occasions to initiate military action in over a dozen countries and now with trump it appears there's even less oversight the pentagon has just announced that they will no longer disclose troop numbers in iraq and syria but can this apply to other regions besides iraq and syria there are ways and already. consistent considerable complete. lack of. transparency and accountability ministration you know it's gotten significantly worse and has touted this is reform. reform this policy of mine or my wonderful before you're going to have even less information. how many troops

there are. when the former defense secretary and cia director leon panetta was once asked about how many wars the u.s. was engaged in seemed rather lost it's a good question but you know it's you have. to stop and think about that now with very little transparency in u.s. operations overseas. exactly be quite the subject to laugh about some your current r. t. washington d.c. . now the syrian city of rocket recently liberated from islamic state was once home to around three hundred thousand people but after months of military operations there by the u.s. backed forces less than one percent of its original population remain and those who have been left behind are still vulnerable in our stores former de facto capital. oh.

only. time i've been through with. what they were up. to. check. meanwhile the controversial civil rescue group white helmets claims to have saved more lives in syria this time on the capital damascus which did come under rocket fire but questions do remain over the group's allegiances and their status is he

writes in the country. report. this is the newest you tube video of the syria civil defense group the white helmets there are saving lives after a rocket attack on a residential area just to the east of damascus so says the description i'm not trying to say they've been doing a bad job at rescuing but there are things that can destroy a reputation even if it's been built on saving lives social networks will show. how to look at the page of some a wearing a white helmet and his profile pic jihad ists for the sake of god how's that for a facebook job field moving on to posted images this is the leader of jaish.

pay your attention to what the hash tag stands for j. shelf represents me and my family and then smiley face feeling grateful. next profile with white helmets emblems and a bun but here's something else remember how russia's ambassador in turkey was shot in the back and killed right in front of an exit bishan audience you can go back to the post from december two thousand and sixteen on that profile and find the picture of the gunmen followed by peace to your soul champ. civil defense says this man's job description no worries till you get to the photo section with this pic and the text right next to it is smile as praising

a member of eisel after his death you wished and you got what you wished for and you won with god's willing just some of what he wrote there and there's a couple of photos of his smile you featuring tara symbols and actual faces all who are written over an older girl the flag of all new straw in syria and terrorist fighters themselves i also remember the video i saw somewhere else. speaking of the white helmet some time spotted together with nusra even an al jazeera documentary telling the brave story of the syria civil defense could make you suspicious of how close the helmets could get to the jihad is why would activists keep a nusra front flag at a place where they rest and i've got a question to ask whoever edited the subtitles. of that film al-jazeera going to

become of the only side the fourth in the good the. only side the fourth in the good as i've said the reputation means a lot and nobel peace prize nomination and an oscar winning film have certainly helped cement it but it seems there is more to bear in mind for whoever next decides to award the white helmets with the prize in a prank reported now you're watching our table be back in to me it.

seems wrong. just don't. let me. get to shape out. active. and in. the trailer. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello again that germany has welcomed well over a million refugees in the last few years but now a myth busting website has been launched to deter anybody thinking of taking the

perilous journey from north africa written off reports. well the west side launched by germany's foreign minister is cold rumors about german effects for migraines it's very user friendly easy to use services features small colorful posts busting what the website describes as meat and big lies that human traffickers and small girl is famous for feeding the would be asylum seekers with such a welcome in payment of two thousand you were false the website says a house or a job for every new arrival complete nonsense the website explains that the best one could get in germany would be crowded mess of communications center often in remote places because big cities are no longer available to feed more refugees and that means the chances of very high that no one would speak to migrants language in that plays which will complicate life

a lot of course. it would be fair to mention that the website doesn't all nearly paint a dark picture of what life could be for migrants in germany but it also tells about new opportunities and improvements in potential asylum seekers home countries there are chapters in this website called stability returns to iraq for

example or germany creates jobs in middle. and obviously these articles are designed to push maybe the potential migrants to. the decision to stay home but interesting is that the target audience for this website are exactly the same people that just a couple of years ago was so welcome to germany following anglo-american ols a so-called open door policy you all remember those pictures where germany's chancellor was posing with refugees and you remember the warm welcome that they were getting at railway stations throughout the country so that website proved quite dramatic shift in policy but very large a quite the same time you know following the results here germany far right alternative for germany party historic success it's

a car right party and they were using this ng to migrant rising anti migrant sentiment in the society while merkel's party and their allies throughout the country has suffered the war stories out in the last half a century. the president of ukraine has posted on twitter to commemorate when tens of thousands of ukrainian people were deported to siberia during the soviet union but unfortunately he did it to photos showing the tragedy will to tell us more about this dan who is in the studio so don't just tell us what was wrong with this fact well it all started with twitter more particularly as you say the image which petro poroshenko posted on his twitter feed the whole story was a commemoration the seventeen other verses you can see the of the deportations of people from western ukraine to siberia in far eastern russia in forty seven nobody could blame the president of course for them to show solidarity with an event which

sure many ukrainians view as a terrible historic injustice but there's one thing wrong this photo was actually to. back in nineteen forty two and it appears to show jews in nazi occupied poland being deported from the lord's gets zero to extermination camp where many tens of thousands were exterminated the original photo is apparently in a holocaust museum now the head of the ukrainian jewish committee has already branded the tweet as strange and what makes the whole story more salient is the ukrainian and polish governments different views of what exactly happened during that era in the early nine hundred forty s. one particular point of attention being the massacre of polish citizens in nazi occupied poland between nine hundred forty three nine hundred forty four by members of the u.p.a. the ukrainian insurgent army now that is a group viewed by some ukrainians as fighters for their country's independence their foundation and others as far right now nazi collaborators no law was actually passed back in twenty fifteen in ukraine honoring this particular group and as one

writer said accuracy is the twin brother of honesty we don't know where the petro poroshenko actually meant to. somehow post this inaccurate photo to make it misleading and what we do know is that it's still up on his feet nearly four days later for the world to see. ok thanks d'amour can get some movies now from the political commentator historian to martin mccauley who joins us on the big screen good evening to martin what do you make of it is it a worry then do you see this is just a careless mistake by putting. it well in many ways it seems very amateurish because it's quite clear those from the watch. would come. in poland because all the jews were put in together and then moved somewhere else so that obviously would and western ukraine of course was part of poland until

september nine hundred thirty nine the radar became been occupied there. and then the germans came in. june one hundred forty one and was really liberated again in one hundred forty four so you have an area which has a strong and the polish an anti russian atmosphere and feeling and there was no love lost between the poles and ukrainians especially the ukrainians in poland where they were in poland in september ninety three now they complained about discrimination and by the way they were treated and so on. and they then the ukrainians they took some revenge on them and they've been many conflicts of interest interest conflict of information and so on who killed whom and so on but western ukraine of course then became part of the soviet republic of ukraine and was a hotbed of nationalism is where the ukrainian national and come from and you get

very far right groups how do you create and so on were responsible for killing or masoretic killing poles and jews and russians and the other embryos in the red army so therefore it's a murky background and petro shanker would know that that photo. is from butch and not from western ukraine because water is not in western ukraine. and he he must know that and the people putting up must know yeah so the question is why leave it up because it's quite obvious when i watch and it's not it's not western ukraine that's right martin it's been up there for four days now. given the sensitive nature of everything you just said there would you expect some sort of ramification hair is there a danger of some sort of diplomatic spat over this. well the jews would have the right to complain that their histories be introduced and it's misrepresented and so

on and perhaps the polish government will then say look. you know why are you putting this up at a time when you say that the ukrainians would be deported to kazakhstan and western siberia and other parts of the soviet union you should in fact have pictures of. votes and other parts of western ukraine so the polish government could in fact take umbrage and say you in fact to bring up something which is very embarrassing you know history we were not responsible for. the the which comes of jews there and so on and it's a very murky and very sad part of our history and so on and of course there was claims of and the semitism in poland claims about the seventy's and in ukraine and so on and all these claims put them all together it brings back you know if seventy years sixty years of the past and so on and it's not really good for very rich

relations official because there are people still alive who were deported and who remember that the i came across ukraine as we were deported at that run short martineau we're going to have to wrap it there but thanks very much for giving us the historical background to all of this that was most mccauley political commentator thank you thank you. for watching us international speakers have you company for the last half hour i'm back with more in just a hot stock. survival guide. stacy just like most of the stores.

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