r.t. america is the same. parent we better than. see people you've never heard of. the. president of the world bank very. seriously sent us an e-mail. brush if it was a u.n. resolution on an investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria waits for a new report on an attack in the country. is singled out over the use of social media to spread content while its executive for appearing on the channel twenty thirty. one destination of choice for asylum seekers germany has launched a myth busting website to deter potential new arrivals.

from moscow to the world this is r t international i'm you know neal just after nine pm here in the russian capital and the welcome our top story russia has blocked a u.n. resolution to extend a probe into the use of chemical weapons in syria moscow is waiting for a new report from the joint investigative mechanism known as j i am. on thursday. you can extend the mandate of the gym a few days before the publication of the report on the twenty sixth even though there is no urgent need for the gym will be operating until seventy of november and no nothing prevents adopting a decision. before that date so why to d. what is the haste this isn't don't don't you think it's strange. and it's

to our t's killam open who's in new york for a skilled talk us through the session if you will well this proposed resolution that was defeated would have extended the mandate of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons for an entire year now already set to expire on nov seventeenth now washington had prepared this proposal this proposed resolution that would have extended the mandate and it was supported by eleven different countries in the u.n. security council however russia voted against it along with bolivia china and kazakstan ics stained and did not take a position because russia is a permanent member of the u.n. security council they were able to veto this resolution now the russian ambassador went on to the united states of basically creating a widespread media campaign in the lead up to the vote this is what he had to say.

a few days before publication of the report to the gym a resolution is her is rushed to extend it by a year before that a powerful campaign in the media is launched. ambassador healy gave an interview in which she clearly cues dresher of trying to undermine and to peter the work of the jim she sends a letter to letter to the members of the security council speaking about the urgency of extending the mechanism now at this point russia has said many times before that it has some very serious concerns about the o.p.c. w.-a how they're conducting this investigation for example of this is about the chemical attack that took place in qana shaken but no o.p.c. w. investigators have ever been to the site of the chemical attack they've made their determinations based on samples that they've received that have been sent to them by third parties and some of these third parties have some rather controversial

backgrounds a lot of questions are being raised about the samples they've received now this attack took place on april fourth and it resulted in seventy four people dying and over five hundred people being injured the o.p.c. that you had reported that sarin nerve gas was the agent that was used in the chemical attack but the o.p.c. w. has not determined who was responsible for carrying the attack out and they have not made any speculation about who is responsible they simply in the past have said that they don't have enough information now that hasn't stopped the leaders of the united states and other western countries of blaming the syrian government calling for action against the syrian government based on this but no determination of blame has been given now russia has said that they are open to extending the mandate of the o.p.c. w. but they'd like to see the report first so as we wait for the report to come out russia has vetoed the proposal to extend their mandate for another year and the whole world is waiting to see what they come up with in the presentation that

should come within the next. days showing what investigation has already been carried out yet jew on thursday i believe thanks for the secular modern life from new york well as kalib said they move to prolong the mandate was brought by washington we asked former u.k. ambassador to syria peter ford why the u.s. was partly trying to push the investigation through they say they want to extend the behavior by provoking this russian veto might suggest to suspicious mind that really they want to keep it because they know that an object to report is highly unlikely to produce the finding that they want the americans were already being judge jury and executioner here a. base days after the alleged attack there are reasons to believe that the mechanism is weak because it

has failed to visit the site of the alleged attack it's failed to visit the air base from which the planes allegedly involved took off even though there would certainly still be trade center in to be picked up this is surely rather suspicious. well the o.p.c. w. was criticized for relying on open source data to produce its initial report on the . chemical attack part of it for example came from the controversial white helmets a volunteer rescue group that claims to be saving civilian lives in syria but questions remain over the group's allegiances and their status as heroes in the country. reports this is the newest you tube video of the syria civil defense group aka the white helmets they're 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 pick the hottest for the sake of god how's that for a facebook job field moving on to posted images this is the leader of jaish thought to. your attention to what the hash tag stands for j.

shelf attack who 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. if you could 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 terrorist symbols and actual faces all who are written over an older group 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 the nusra front flag at a place where they rest and i've got a question to ask whoever edited the subtitles of that film at al-jazeera would come of the show. within the good he added. within the good he added as i've said 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 a prize. to another over headline stories this hour germany has welcomed well over a million refugees over the last number of years but no a myth busting website has been launched by authorities there to deter anyone thinking of taking the perlis journey from north africa with more in the tears. 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 seeker 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. the

interesting is that the target audience for this website are exactly the same people that just a couple of years ago were so welcome teen germany following uncle merkel's a so-called open door policy you'll 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 proves why dramatic shift in policy but very logic want the same time following the results hegemony far right alternative for germany party historic successes of far right party and they were using these anti migrant rising anti migrant sentiment in the society while merkel's party and their allies throughout the country has suffered the war stories in the last half

a century it would be fair to mention that the website doesn't paint a dark picture of what life could be for migrants in germany but it also tells about new opportunities and improvements but ten show asylum seekers home countries there are chapters in this website called stability returns to iraq for example or germany creates jobs in middle east and obviously these articles are designed to push maybe these potential migrants to the decision to stay home germany is not the only country eager to deter refugees hungary sees its migrant free and wants to stay that way. mark shocked me we are the only ones who resist we're gold that that's why central europe is the last ma gun free zone in europe that is why defied for europe's future it's here

for you here hungary's pm also expressed hope to work with poland the czech republic and slovakia they've already taken a number of measures to block migrants rejecting e.u. refugee quotas building fences on their borders and stepping up the vice president's right so a lot to get around let's try to answer some of those questions with dr reiner roughness reiner is a geopolitical analyst unconsulted you're very welcome to the program just first about this new web site in germany where you're joining us from a campaign to the term migrants from coming why would this have been launched is it all about saving lives and making people aware of ruthless traffickers or something else. well it's a first step to inform potential my crims about the situation the real situation in germany but of course it cannot be seen as. the whole problem because as long

as poverty remains an issue in large parts of africa where we have strong growth as long as destabilization strategies of need to destroy countries in the middle east we will see also grade my current pressure in the future and as long as the situation is better the. system in germany is better and in their countries there will still remain this pressure of migration to once europe and also germany mike this initiative be connected with the recent gains of the alternative for germany party in the elections incidentally i think it was the first parliament day today as well wasn't so lot of tension there too. yeah of course i mean that's the sad thing that we can observe here that politics only works this way we need an election we need punishment of the parties who

have made a mistake and only after the election they correct their policies i mean there are other countries like australia who applied similar methodology already before but and germany we did not understand real help for refugees means to step in. home countries and to help in the nearest instance to their country and this is the mistake we made before and now we try to correct it but it's two years late just in the only news we're talking about before coming to hungary's prime minister hopes to work with poland the czech republic and slovakia your thoughts on such an alliance is breaking off within the block and how successful that they actually could be. well i think it will be quite successful this alliance because it is also backed by the populations there and as long as europe is. made up of nation states and is not

a super state which can all three tarion way push the migrants wherever they want they will be backed up by their populations and they will all jacked also the goals of the european union reduced to redistributing migrants and i think it will also raise the competitiveness of these parts of eastern europe because in the western parts we will of course fall off compared to difference in. the coming years because of migrant inflow because we have of course high costs like in germany for example fifty billion euros per year and we have less competitiveness of the workforce in average so i think capital will also more strongly flow in the future to those. in countries ok the thoughts of dr reiner

rough political analyst consultant thanks for your time this hour. mutua chief business officer as being scrutinized by the media over his appearance on this channel four years ago robert cancell has been accused of having a cozy relationship with r.t. and bolstering our online presence and reformer discuss this earlier with nuclear. what it would appear that the new york times has been sifting through its archives and as it marks 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 vice president at the time i think users generally appreciate its authenticity that's very apparent from everything that's going 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 schools authentic the audience that watches this some to study and those who provided to them are four 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 private 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 going 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 its troubling naivety

about artie's political agenda these useful idiots remain oblivious to r.t.c. 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 rule 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 we also gathered opinion from media slowing or refit shoes from the u.k. independence party. every time that the new york times or the washington post or anybody ever does something it's some exposé about r t it makes people in this country even more interested and more fascinated with what r.t. does r t two point one billion views two point two million subscribers now why do you think that is let's just guess is it because of some some kind of inter agency goings on between you two of the alphabet and google and r.t. or is that russian or do people lie good if there is propaganda i would respectfully submit it's pro r d because every time the new york

times talks about you i think it's out of jealousy both your popularity everybody has a choice you can say you can watch c.n.n. you can watch the b.b.c. from anywhere in the world if you happen to people the people want to see and people are going to watch it it doesn't matter who you all or who supports you it's enough to know both that's all it is one of them seen some turn on. the fact is it seems that all see a giving some form of news to people like and so people are consuming it if they didn't like they know full so what you i've got to say when a fan of a page don't know it's c.n.n. and i have several times you know i never have a problem you're welcome to ask me any questions you like. i answered in whatever way i like that's how the media is no. well over to

a no other online media giant facebook users in huff a dozen countries have hit back at the social media giant which is trialing a scheme to charge new seidlitz for their posts with the story here is probably bucko. 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 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 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 comes and we will hear what people say about the experience to understand if it's an idea with 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 i think the key word that's going to keep the smaller news organizations awake at night that is current he said there are no current plans so that clearly leaving the option open that's got a lot of news outlets worried about a slip back into the death 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 do you this pretty quickly to how utterly boring that friends are the

only community lost start to sing the social media network will be supplying people with what they simply want them to hear and also for severing the link between the organizations and users independent journalist martin summer's facebook is experiment ing with its money not bully on power. well i think this is an abuse of the monopoly powers and facebook and the other major u.s. internet companies are basically trying it on the experimenting with this to see if they can use their monopoly power to increase their profits but also more sinister lay there 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 it is de 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're even got to be

run by the government or the got to be regulated by the government to ensure that a competitive market exists. moving on the president of ukraine has tweeted a commemoration to the tens of thousands of ukrainian people who were deported to siberia during soviet times but unfortunately he attached a photo showing another tragedy artie's daniel hawkins explains. the whole story rolls around this photo which president poroshenko posted on the day commemorating the deportation of west ukrainians to siberia in far eastern russia in one nine hundred forty seven and nobody could have blamed him for wanting to show solidarity with something that many ukrainians view as a terrible historical injustice but this photo isn't what it seems it was actually taken five years earlier back in one hundred forty two it shows apparently jews in poland being transported by nancy forces from the lord's ghetto to shun the

extermination camp where tens of thousands were murdered now the original image is apparently kept in a holocaust museum now the head of the ukrainian jewish committee has brought into the tweet as strange the whole incident is made even more salient because of poland and ukraine is diverging views on the events of that era a particular point of tension between the governments of the massacres of poles in nancy occupied poland in the early night and forty's they were carried out by the ukrainian insurgent army of the u.p.a. a group viewed by some as fighters for ukrainian independence and others as far right nancy collaborators a law was actually passed in ukraine in twenty fifteen all knowing the organization we can't say for certain whether this inaccuracy was intentional at the time but three days later it's still up on the president's twitter feed for the world to see . whether in fact political analyst martin mccauley believes that ukraine with face

ramifications over the incident. the polish government may in fact protest but not try to turn it into a really serious incident and polish government. say these things to him but i would expect them not to issue a formal protest to the government in kiev. but say this is regarded as this is an unfortunate mistake and please take the pictures down from the website because it's quite clear that the pictures are not from western ukraine. nice stories for not but why not check out that web page that is causing the new york times on the wall street journal so much i preach artie's you trip channel five billion views and counting.