i don't know that but we are. the top stories verifying opinions new twitter will see some conservative comments from the platform. an investigation into a deadly chemical incident in syria russia resolution response to blocking washington's proposals. of the investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and it's not known from who will win this on reliable evidence came from. the house of cards. on this remarkable story of survival we meet a three year old girl rescued from a plane crash that killed six people in russia. in

moscow friday morning at ten news update with me calling bright twitter no longer just checks to see if you're a real person it's also now judge and jury on views as well it's all part of new guidelines being laid down by the website and it's resulted in a number of people being blocked 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 old 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 in the 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.

and what about accounts like these mohammed al a reef a conservative sunni muslim cleric from saudi arabia 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 or project veritas founder james o'keefe both journalists with anti establishment views twitter didn't answer artie'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 us republican party activist john griffin says put the bosses of 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 so i'm just trying to facebook's also been making headlines for its new tool called trusted because it's aimed at flagging up fake news on the site distinguishing between trustworthy publishers and the rest the tools designed to disclose information about the ownership structure of media outlets and 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 had from a political activist who believes facebook is doing a disservice to its clients. 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 that is completely backwards. that's occasions into chemical weapons incidents in syria have stalled russia's veto to draft a 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 rusher is being blamed for everything as usual russia has helped to bury the truth allegedly are trying to disparage our country russia has played games with the new league russia 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 blatant unprofessionalism russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism to prove also those who voted against russia's draft resolution are responsible for the fact that the joint investigative mechanism to stop operating. russia offered its own draft resolution alongside the american one but it also didn't pass the un vote both countries suggest extending the investigative teams mandate russia called for a six month period while the us wanted a two year extension that washington also said the previous probe was conducted in an appropriate manner while moscow believes the methods need to be reviewed and the

attack site revisited the joint commission leading the investigation claims the syrian government was responsible for the sarin gas attack and that report came out in october it was criticized by russia for lacking credibility due to insufficient diligence one of moscow's main concerns there was with the reliability of the samples used to form the conclusion as experts carrying out the probe didn't visit the site and receive that data through third parties they were also question marks over what might have happened to the samples as they were transported out of syria russia's ambassador to the un is once again voiced his worries during the latest council session. not new would you lose your new guy who create this pseudo investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and it's not known from who or where this unreliable evidence came from it falls apart like a house of cards based on this the joint mechanism was brave enough to accuse the whole syrian government in such a ways chief sacrificed their own reputation and wrote their names in the history of speculation around syria nevertheless we want to say this joint investigation.

russia wasn't alone in blocking the resolution of the un bolivia also voted against the draft china in egypt abstained after the vote r.t. spoke exclusively to the bolivian u.n. ambassador we wanted to get a resolution because not a solution did a representative only 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 they did a report that the g.m. has issued a few weeks ago that x. has been. criticised by many members of the council we really believe that the investigation should be done e.c. too so if we talk about the attack the type in. saw 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. french president's far reaching labor reforms saw thousands protest overnight in several cities solidarity was at the demonstrations in paris. well what we have of thousands of people who 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 no mr merkel has made changes to the code or to find to revive 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 and smash

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 this all the things that the way mccomb passed the law by executive order is an attack a democracy one that doesn't collapse we are very angry because this law is not for employees they simply lose all of their rights. markram wants to liberalize and destroy all the security of workers he wants labor costs to be at a minimum and we are 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 to divide and the fact that although my plan 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 among the reaction we've been getting the editor in chief of belgium's the people magazine thinks that 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 the man just to pass that through then he will have 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. investigators are trying to establish why a light aircraft crashed in eastern russia on wednesday killing six people however

the incredible story of one girl who's just three years old and is the sole survivor has captured hearts worldwide. we're. and the same here on the grill to show that a girl that had ninety two was found in line ahead of the end was close and was to see a child. realize that the miracle happened.

at all. which they go to speedy recovery they're watching all take the f.b.i. and the media have called different ideas over why there's a spike in hate crime in the united states will walk you through that after the break. it's. going to organize

a physics security office side always security to your own someone the. people who attack. the attacking but they don't want to be killed you know all when there's a guy calls a woman who have decided to. die. is much more difficult to do it well to do blogs you know. all over again the term hate crime is usually associated with attacks against minority groups and reports into the problem in the us a suggesting it's very much on the rise.

a recent f.b.i. report suggests that a spike in hate related incidents in twenty six days which many media outlets have been quick to link with the u.s. president's strong rhetoric so maybe a context a closer look next 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 troll 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 one hate crimes are rising. victory america has been grappling with a reported rise in hate crimes and 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 in a mosque the between ethnic and racial groups the united states does not happen 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 there's been much greater controversies and they've they've completely ignored them to break it down further

according to the f.b.i. is data of the highest spike in hate crimes was actually anti white crime well i mean this to to sticks don't bear that out. in two thousand and sixteen the number of hate crimes ticked up very slightly but it's significant if. statistically insignificant. drop at all even always only president i mean it was only the president elect. for the last two months of 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 so american r.t.e. . israel's top military official says his country is willing to share intelligence on iran with saudi arabia those remarks could further complicate not only an ongoing standoff between riyadh but also internally within saudi arabia you certainly 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 he announced 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 french president emmanuel macron the french leader and he has said that sad 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 step to unraveling 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. well riyadh's long been a supporter of former prime minister hariri whereas the lebanese president is a know not lie of hezbollah a militant group and political party backed by iran political science professor khalid cavell says the israeli military chief statement 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. this is a president what this confirms is a alliance between israel saudi arabia the united states and i have a why he did it and what he did two thousand and thirteen

a close friend of mine tyler lang and i and thirty east for coming cranch in northern illinois for thirty six years this is a facility that was imprisoning and killing maiming killing children within the sight and smell of their mothers all for 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 words 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 intervenes to indict us under this terrorism legislation you know which ended up being a nightmare and i was in prison for three years. well the controversial law run the which kevin was jailed was passed in its current form back in two thousand and six it bans action that damages or interferes 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 johnson 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 is always when 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 essentially repress activists on behalf of industry and finance you know terrorism we all know we've all experienced 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. well that's it for me for this hour thanks for choosing us today while most happening around the world. has got you covered until your next news from me which is in just about half an hour from now i'll see that. go. to. carry.

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in europe is making governments adapt expanding police powers and toughening anti-terrorist. oil office help to fan against future attacks we'll ask former head of intelligence at the french external security agency at. the so-called islamic state crumbling iraq and syria its terror tactics in the west are becoming more desperate resorting to random stabbings and vehicle running attacks in place of guns and bombs. carried out by brainwashed. how can they be tracked encountered with the public be willing to give up some of its liberties to prevent future tragedies expanding police powers be enough to protect people from new acts of terror. as yuri a former head of intelligence at the french external security agency welcome back to the show it's always great to have you as our guest mr juliette fran says and it's chillier state of emergency imposed after the paris attacks and the country's

interior minister is yet off her own says so terror threat remains high why unless they were arjen see now when the threat is still high. you know kountry. due to the democratic system. some some possibilities on the road falls a police for instance it was impossible to to have a look on an appointment or a fraud during the evening of the night you know and so it was giving a possibility for the terrorist to prepare something being absolutely free. being coached by police so this one sets an example but there are some examples. on which all the police was saying that it was necessary to change it so in the first bit of time during the last year we used the state as a system you know because we see the state it's possible to bypass you know the

usual rules but it was not possible to for long before prime minister or president mark rome prime minister and minister of interior minister kolo decided to push and to promote the new logo and to publish a new low which a was to do what was possible to do in the state but no not in the usual running of the state the thing is that usually people are against when their liberties are somehow card.