other true colors of universities in the u.s. . headline news an investigation into a deadly chemical incident in syria stalls as russian offers its own resolution in response to blocking washington's proposed. major flaws have been revealed in the way to structure a free switch to not allow us to automatically prolong. verifying opinions new twitter rules see some conservative comments and views banned from the platform. the new f.b.i. report on the rise of hate crime in the united states suggests donald trump's election victory is to blame we look at whether that reason gives the full picture also this hour. a remarkable story of survival three year old girls rescued from a plane crash that killed six people in eastern russia. friday

morning welcome to news from r.t. international first off for you this hour investigations into chemical weapons incidents in syria have stalled russia's vetoed a draft u.s. resolution at the u.n. on extending the work of a joint probe into a deadly chemical incident in syria earlier this year. russia has acted to obstruct these investigations russia is being blamed for everything as usual russia has helped to bury the truth allegedly trying to disparage our country russia has played games with the new aggression is not playing games you are trying to play games with us russia wants a mechanism but not an independent one would use to protest against this great and unprofessionalism russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism here to prove

also those who voted against russia's draft resolution are responsible for the fact that the joint investigative mechanism to stop operating. or just to jog your memory as to how we got to this point tensions grew after the joint commission accused the syrian government for the sarin gas attack in its second report released in october russia question the credibility for a number of reasons one of the key concerns moscow had was with the reliability of the samples as experts didn't visit the site and receive data through third parties there were also question marks over what could have happened to the samples that were transported out of syria in response russia offered its own draft resolution alongside the u.s. one both suggest extending the investigative teams mandate russia called for a six month period or the us wanted a two year extension washington also said the previous probe was conducted in an appropriate manner but moscow believes the methods need to be reviewed and the attack site revisited artie's callup morgan has more on the latest un security council vote. the meeting began with the united states putting forward

a resolution to extend the work of the joint investigative mechanism for russia blocked it as a permanent member of the security council we then heard from nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the united nations and she was not happy with russia's move russia has acted to obstruct these investigations many times but today it strikes a deep glow russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism which has overwhelming support of this council and by lemonade in our ability to identify the attackers russia has undermined our ability to determine future attacks later in the meeting russia and bolivia were able to put forward a resolution that would have extended the work of the joint investigation mechanism but restricted it and urged it to operate in what they called a more reliant and scientific manner this resolution was voted down at the council it was blocked by the united states the u.n.

security council meeting concluded with the investigation of the joint investigative mechanism of the o.p.c. w. the investigation into chemical weapons in syria going to expire and russia wasn't alone on this bolivia was the only country to join russia in voting against the draft resolution of the security council trying to reach it abstained the bolivian u.n. ambassador spoke exclusively to r.t. after the vote. we wanted against a resolution because that resolution didn't represent to the what we need for joining mr. mechanism to to to do our position is that there should be an independent impartial professional technical investigation of what happened there the report that the g.m. has issued a few weeks ago. and it has been. criticised by many members of the council we really believe that the investigation should be done in c. two so if we talk about the attack the l.h. talked in. so the g.m.

the joint vertical the mechanism a should go to that place and to collect evidence in order to have a more transparent independent and complete investigation there are differences different approaches to that but i think there's a common ground the common ground is that there should be investigations on the ones that commit this kind of war crimes should be held accountable if the nations there are around the table the one of the security council are united it means that there should be compromise that should they should engage in negotiation they should try to accommodate the interests of. all of them. we talk to the author of blood on our hands the american invasion and destruction of iraq he believes the chemical probe failed to take an impartial look at all the available evidence. clearly this this is not you know this is know what the world expects of the o.p.c. w. or of the u.n.

security council when you know you know when when these. you know when the world signs an international treaty and establishes an agency to investigate an incident like this. we expect to be able to to rely on it took to conduct its investigations with integrity and to hear from. experts from all sides and from different or all points of view and this clearly didn't happen. no longer checking if you're a real person but also judging your views it's all part of new guidelines being laid down now by twitter and it's resulted in a number of people being blocked from the site takes a closer look at the updated rules. up until this week verification illustrated by a blue tick on twitter was a symbol that

a user's account is genuine so if you take the account hair don't all trump the blue tit care to notice that yes these really are the words of the u.s. president it's a bit like a certificate of authenticity for a design a handbag or a hologram stick on the back of a box containing a computer game and high profile users like trump might have hundreds of fake and power accounts hence the blue tick but twitter says that somewhere along the line this verification became known as an endorsement so they started taking the blue tick away the blue tick purge started after twitter was criticized for verifying the account of this man jason kessler the organizer of the deadly white nationalist rally in charlottesville an organist. eventually twenty came up

with an extensive list of the new guidelines the reasons for removing the symbol include intentionally misleading people promoting violence inciting harassment and the list goes on nearly detect uses include tommy robinson the former leader of the u.k.'s english defense league and white supremacist richard spencer ordinary twitter users have expressed confusion over the new policy. what about accounts like these mohammed al a reef

a conservative sunni muslim cleric from saudi arabia with over nine million twitter followers banned from the u.k. in twenty fourteen his blue tick remains intact twitter says it's conducting a sweeping review of its verified accounts and it's possible that accounts like this may not have come up for review yet but even before the rethink twitter had been criticized for refusing to verify certain accounts that of wiki leaks editor julian assange for example all project veritas founder james o'keefe both journalists with anti establishment views twitter didn't answer our t's request for more information regarding its policy review in recent months twitter has faced mounting criticism for failing to combat it. and hate speech it's not clear how making itself the arbiter of right and wrong with

a seal of approval is going to fix that boyko r t london well we've asked twitter to clarify its moves we get to hear anything back we'll let you know if we do meanwhile the us republican party activist john griffin says that the firm is stifling debate on issues that matter to people. so the idea of you know d. verifying twitter accounts on the basis of hate is is more to me of a of a symbolic gesture towards preventing dialogue leads leads to more hateful discourse i think that what's being done is being done primarily because of top down political pressure to try to centrally silence some discussion but the the accounts that have been that have been blocked for hate speech frankly i don't think anyone has a problem with blocking them but the idea that this could creep into something where one side has an unfair advantage in most political discussions that's certainly

a question that i think needs to be asked and looked at honestly facebook's also be making the headlines for its new tool called trust indicators it's aimed at flagging up fake news on the site distinguishing between trustworthy publishes the rest the tools designed to disclose information about the ownership structure of media outlets it also looks into editorial policy and fact checking ability reviewing headlines and articles but it's actually up to the publishers themselves to provide their own information we heard from a political activist who believes facebook is doing a disservice to its plans. facebook has the right to put whatever indicators it once but in doing so it's currently doing a major disservice to its clients it is essentially misleading them because it's basing its trust indicators on the completely flawed idea that what most of the us mainstream media is reporting is basically true so by putting these

indicators it is essentially giving a in correctly a high level of trust facebook is a sort of unscientifically assuming that the currently accepted mainstream media is also trustworthy it is not trustworthy and so allowing these people that they've assumed before even beginning any kind of real review or any kind of real experimentation that they are trustworthy and then deciding to let them show that they're trustworthy by basically saying so is completely backwards. french presidents far reaching labor reforms or thousands protest again in several cities show the dubin schemes up one demonstration in paris. well what we have of thousands of people who have decided to join this small watch which was set up by the trade unions some of the three biggest trade unions in france called the no members for a day of national action what we're finding from people is that they're incredibly angry about what they describe as being the liberal reforms of mr merkel in the midst of my course has made changes to the code to define and to revise this is the

working code in france but just want to bring you up to date with some of the latest that we've seen a nice some of the damage to the shops that we're seeing along the street where this protest is going on this is a transfer western union shop and this is one of a number of shops that we've seen a small group of individuals taking part in this protest trying to break in smashing what they're using around them is not just rocks on the street but it's when you take a look down here these are the great they're pulling up from around the trees and they've actually been trying to use those to ram into the shops to cool some of this damage this is a small select group of people but as you can see the great still in the shop door here where they attacked in fact that she went in and asked all the customers to leave before they attack the shop but this is what we're seeing along this street now what we saw was them smashing up buildings like banks building societies and places that rent apartments here in paris and it was seemed to be very targeted

very angry stopping the crowds and in fact when they saw that we were trying to film that she blocked our camera and frightened us and said you know you not allowed to film us doing this because they concerned about the police being able to work out what their identity is well apart from that we've been speaking to some of the protesters about what this protest was really about you can see they're all good at best things that the way mccomb passed the law by executive order is an attack a democracy one that there's not going to happen where very angry because this law is not for employees they simply lose all of their rights. michael. markram wants to liberalize and destroy all the security of workers he wants labor costs to be at a minimum and we're here to denounce this policy which is not in the interests of workers they also want the people here are hopeful that the fact that the code you buy and the fact that although my point has signed this and given his approval it

still needs to be debated by the parliament here in france and they're hoping that by holding protests like this by showing how many people are unhappy and concerned about these changes that they might be able to get parliamentarians in france to change their minds they had it or in chief of belgium's the people magazine also think such executive orders are undemocratic. occupies to the center of the political spectrum the full center and so the extreme left which is the only support that the unions have in parliament in the us. are seventeen seventeen members of parliament very democratic the these executive orders most politicians say repeatedly that they won't use it until they use it in this instance probably it was the only way to get it through because the french people are very reluctant to go to let it go through and this labor reform was really the

forest big stumbling block for just to pass that through then you will have a period of of let's say. a long period to do what he wants to do on all the points but the sport's key for him for his movement all mush . thanks the term hate crime is usually associated with attacks against minority groups and reports into the problem is suggesting it's very much on the rise. but a recent f.b.i. report suggests one individual is responsible for a spike in hate related incidents since twenty sixteen many media outlets have been quick to link it with the u.s. president's strong rhetoric so america takes a closer look at the cause and effect behind the numbers. a spike in hate crimes in the u.s. is all over the headlines after the release of the latest f.b.i.

stats what we've seen since present trouble got in office is a rise in hate crimes and hate crimes are on the rise across the u.s. after the election and since the one hate crimes arising since trench victory america has been grappling with a reported rise in hate crimes of hate crimes have reportedly been on the rise across the nation many outlets chose to present the figures as confirmation of reports that blame the rise on racial violence on donald trump's campaign and then there's the southern poverty law center front and center against the rise of hate crimes under trump now they claim a five year high is trump towards the presidency and that was indeed the case let's zoom out so there was an increase from two thousand and fifteen to two thousand and sixteen by over two hundred cases but that's far from a peak now two thousand and fourteen to two thousand and fifteen way before trump kicked off his controversial campaign was actually a third higher let's zoom out some more seventeen years ago during the bush

administration over nine thousand hate crimes were registered in two thousand and one alone putting last year's figures firmly in the shade of the mainstream media in the united states do not like donald trump and they've painted a very false narrative have him talking about how he will increase animosity between ethnic and racial groups the united states does not happen they talked about how he is colluded with with the russian government they've provided you know up until now still no proof of that and they have been much greater controversies and they've they've completely ignored them to break it down further according to the f.b.i. data the highest spike in hate crimes was actually anti white crime well i mean this to to sticks don't bear that out. two thousand and sixteen the number of hate crimes ticked up very slightly but it's significant if. statistically insignificant and donald trump at all even if i was only president i mean i was only the

president elect. of the past for the last two months or twenty sixteen well the rise in hate crimes is surely a present and grave issue but a quick look at the bigger picture might just put your mind at ease samir khan r.t.e. . investigations are still continuing in twilight aircraft crashed in eastern russia on wednesday killing six people have of the incredible story of one girl just three years old and the sole survivor has captured the hearts of many. were. in the same films are

crucial to the go with it was fun line of the scene and of the endless close campaign was teaching the child that there should be. real like here that the miracle happened. israel's top military official says his country is willing to share intelligence on iran with saudi arabia the remarks could further complicate not only an ongoing standoff between tehran and riyadh but also internal affairs within saudi arabia is a rally picks up the story. over the past ten or fifteen years there's been a feeling amongst those in tel aviv and riyadh that they have a shared interest in pushing back iranian influence in the region but over the last

year or two it's becoming more and more obvious and these latest comments by the israeli military's chief of staff essentially saying it admitting that israel and saudi arabia are ready to exchange information and share intelligence on iran and its allies in the region and it's thought that this is something which has been. perhaps to boo in the past something which saudi leaders haven't been able to make the case to their own populations but now it feel more comfortable to do so and it appears the rule of the middle east is that my enemy's enemy is my friend so those two countries increasing very cooperation in order to push back what they say is rainy and expansionism in the region now of course the situation here in lebanon has been somewhat more tense over the last couple of weeks we've seen that

resignation by the lebanese prime minister saad hariri live on television from riyadh from saudi arabia here knows that resignation and many of the political actors in this country the hezbollah political party even the president michel aoun not accepting that resignation because they say according to the lebanese constitution it needs to be made in person and sad hariri hasn't returned to lebanon since he made that announcement leading to some speculation that he has perhaps not been returned against his own free will well over the last day or two we've seen an invitation being extended by the french president emmanuel macron the french leader and he has said that assad hariri is welcome to come and visit him there are many political analysts both inside lebanon and outside who say that that could be the first. stepped on the rubble in this political deadlock and seeing him return to the country and what other analysts say has been the failure of saudi

arabia to try to divide the lebanese political establishment riyadh's long been a supporter of former prime minister hariri as a politician whereas the lebanese president is a known ally to hezbollah a militant group and political party backed by iran political science professor calling cavell says that the recent statement made by the i.d.f. chief is a move to form a new coalition against iran this is the first open collaboration public collaboration and acknowledgement that there is a strong relationship between israel and saudi arabia and you can assure you that so that the united states or as a group this is a president what this confirms is a drawing of alliance between israel saudi arabia the united states and have they remain among them so that they can contain iran.

an american animal rights activist who was jailed for releasing salads of animals from a fur foam is pushing for changes to north on defending animal welfare kevin johnson was locked up for three years on charges which included terrorism he took us through what he did and why two thousand and thirteen a close friend of mine tyler lange and i entered the east for coming cranch in northern illinois for thirty six years of the facility that was imprisoning and killing maiming killing children within the sight and smell of their mother's offer fashion and so we entered the facility we opened all the cages in the facility to free two thousand mink and saved their lives and we painted the word liberation is love on a barn to demonstrate that we weren't trying to threaten anybody we were trying to have a message of compassion. when we were arrested we were sensed under state law for possession of burglary tools we were already doing time for the crime in illinois state and the federal government intervened to indict us under this terrorism

legislation you know which ended up being a nightmare and i was in prison for three years the controversial lure under which kevin was jailed was post back in two thousand and six it bans action the damages are in to see as with any organization that deals with animals if an individual causes more than one hundred thousand dollars worth of damage they can face up to ten years in prison kevin give us his views on being treated as a terrorist the court essentially found was that the government is permitted to apply the label terrorism to virtually any activity that it doesn't like in this instance the court said it was not quote utterly unreasonable so that's their standard for determining whether the government can call something terrorism and he's always telling you worry about with employers landlords it's a serious thing even if people look at it and they say that's kind of silly whatever at the same time they take pause which was the entire purpose of the federal government when they passed the law even if people look at it and say well that's silly they still take pause people are nervous i think that it's incredibly

cynical for legislators to try to use the rhetoric of terrorism you know in order to simply repress activists on behalf of industry and finance you know terrorism we all know we've all experience in this country sadly terrorism is the killing of civilians in order to intimidate their populations. you know it's it's a desecration of the victims of terrorist attacks and you know an affront to the concept of what terrorism is. but i think to add to that drop us a line right that's it for now get breaking news alerts twenty four seven on our apps by following us on social media i'm calling braille have your next world update in just over half an hour a football next stan collymore show only on. they

call me a useful idiot i'm useful idiot you called me a useful idiot a useful idiot useful idiots go expressing my opinions on tea there's two things of us doing it behind his record is a simple strategy we attack person instead of talking about the org what's next why stop me from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink one hour stretch beyond the right i should be sent to the town of london because i'm a traitor brick me although we'll put up with my lifetime of this sort of nonsense you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out i'm in good company i'm in good company you going with me you want to do this because we are freezing cold.

crown prince mohammed bin solomon is said to be a reformer and on an anti-corruption drive others say differently saudi arabia is experiencing a life threatening crisis that could ignite a region wide conflict and the trumping ministration appears to be on board. simply using markets to wage war against country a country individual to individual and wished green when goldman sachs and their buddies decided to tear down that country to rip it for billions of dollars at a profit john paulson got almost sacks and now it's spilling over into the crypto world and the geopolitical world that's happening.

preview that that's hello and welcome to the stan collymore show now in september england's two biggest rivals liverpool and manchester united to play in the russian capital on consecutive champions league noice while the u.i. for the two moscow rivals see a sky and spot sucked into the mix you can imagine the tabloid media went into overdrive predicting. so of course as a good journalist to say for myself. in the middle of going to. one with that famous life with blood on his chest another

one with a bag with lots of stickers and shake will follow which is very good of course it must go on the ball. on your very good friends posts. your little poll final. and your munches you know i see it fun so you hear both supporting each of those teams over today's. game who go into his game what the thoughts of moscow so far since you've been his beautiful i'm here for five days and it's beautiful where you from malta you'll never walk along see a glory glory munches you know it's good to see. what your first impressions of moscow. welcome of you know i do warm welcome she travels everywhere with liverpool doesn't bother me about of game before you know construction a couple times also that i'm not fazed by any problems no no problems at all. we're in pushkin square just left we going to the spot at stake here.