headlining this verifying opinions specifically drowning out right. designed to tackle extremism speech. and investigation into a deadly chemical incident in syria stalls as russia offers its response to washington post. investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and it's not known from who this unreliable evidence came from it falls apart like a house of cards. the remarkable story of survival of a three year old girl rescued from a plane crash that killed six people in eastern russia.

live worldwide this is r.t. international the. eleven am friday morning here in moscow first off the twitter police are getting heavy put out longer just checks to see if you're a real person it's also judge and jury to it's all part of new guidelines being laid down by the social network has been taking a closer look. 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 air don't old trump the blue tick 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.

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 problem boyko r t london or picking up on the us republican party had to be strong griffin put a bottom as a stifling debate on issues that matter to people. so the idea of you know de 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 it's not just two it's a facebook's also been making headlines for its new tool called trust indicators 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 pickles but it's actually up to the publishers themselves to provide their own information we had from a political activist who believes facebook's letting its users down. 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 and mainstream media is reporting is basically true so by putting these indicators it is essentially giving a incorrectly 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. investigations into chemical weapons incidents in syria have stalled russia's veto to draft the 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 public pressure is being blamed for everything as usual russia has helped to bury the truth legitimate trying to disparage our country russia has played games with human groceries not playing games you are trying to play games with russia wants a mechanism but not an independent one would produce a 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 or 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 washington also said the previous probe was conducted in an appropriate manner while moscow believes the methods need to be reviewed in the attack site revisit it. well the joint commission leading the investigation claims

that the syrian government was responsible for the sarin gas attack and that report came out in october and was criticized by russia for lacking credibility and sufficient to do diligence one of moscow's main concerns was with the reliability of the samples used to form that conclusion as experts carrying out the probe didn't visit the site and got their data through third parties there were also question marks over what could have happened to the samples as they were transported out of syria russia's ambassador to the un has once again voiced his worries during the latest council session. not that new would you lose your new goggle gridley's 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 to sacrifice their own reputation and wrote their names in the history of speculation around syria nevertheless we want to say this joint investigation with

. russia wasn't alone in blocking the resolution of the un bolivia also voted against the draft china and egypt abstained after the vote artist spoke exclusively to the bolivian u.n. ambassador we wanted to get a resolution because others who should be represented only what we need for joining us so you mechanism to to to do our position is that there should be an independent impartial professional technical investigation of what happened there their 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 e.c. too so if we talk about their track the stock the in. saw the g.m. the joint vertical the mechanism a should goal to that place and to collect evidence in order to have a more transparent independent and complete investigation.

french president far reaching labor reforms saw thousands protest well into the night in several cities as president emanuel mccrum forces through measures to give employers more powers to sack staff challah dubinsky 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 missed the mark on the mr michael has made changes to the code or to find a job via 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 thing that the way mccomb passed the law by executive order is an attack of democracy when it doesn't collapse where 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 point has signed this isn't 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 mind. the paris demo well the editor in chief of belgium's

the people magazine also thinks 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 is not very democratic the 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 long period to do what he wants to do on all the points but the sport's key for him for his movement all much. less to go to trying to establish why

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that the miracle happened. and so she has a speedy recovery you're watching are taped the f.b.i. and the media have got different ideas over why there's a spike in hate crime in the u.s. we'll look into that after the break. the. other white for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside god's. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the super manager killian erroneous and specially suited to twenty million a one player. it's an experience like nothing else on here because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy my great so will cochise with.

the base it's going to take. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down the music business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. the. question. looking back at the time high crime is usually associated with attacks against minority groups and reports into the problem in the us suggesting it's very much on the rise.

libya. now a recent f.b.i. report suggests a spike in hate related incidents in twenty sixteen and a lot of media outlets have been quick to link it with one crimes arising since transfixed tree trumps 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 hundred to two thousand and sixteen thousand and fifteen way before trump kicked off his controversial campaign was actually a third higher the mean stream media in the united states do not like donald trump with the russian government they provide a rainy and expansionism in 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 side here 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 is really very well riyadh long been a supporter of former prime minister hariri whereas the lebanese president is a known ally of hezbollah militant group and a political party backed by iran trying to rival some of all this now we go live to hear that as a day one analyst and director of the international center for human rights welcome to the program and i get quite complicated this picture but what could this willingness to share intelligence between israel and saudi arabia mean for their future relations do you think. oh well obviously there is a mutual benefit between two countries saudi arabia and it is really government

even though there is no diplomatic relation but obviously it's been a long time that both intelligence share is so both countries working together against iran so obviously it's going to also impact their future relationship saudi arabi it doesn't recognize israel and the. state of israel but it is cooperation between two countries i believe is going to be a good path to their future relationship was one thing that seems really confusing saudi arabia's never recognized israel as a country israeli passport holders aren't even allowed in saudi arabia it's going to seem odd to a lot of people that this cooperation going on. at this point saudi arabia doesn't have to recognize israel you know the intelligence services work together it's middle east it's a complicated situation there is a proxy war

a civil war going on between countries and they're on one side iran and under either side saudi arabia syria iraq israel palestinian issues too many i think going around so they don't have any other option they have to corporate. israel said let me collaborate with what i called moderate arab states why would they define saudi arabia as a moderate country do you think. well i i don't think israel. looks at a. saudi arabia as a moderate arab country i believe that maybe that's because mohamed bin someone just took the power and they want to start a relationship with the neocon them in saudi arabia and that's use in that there is not a. moderate. arab country or government they have is they still

have. the issues. similar to iran's a religious government ration so but the thing is israeli government is a smart they play smart they want to be cooperative they want to. have allies the situation in middle east so that they don't have. any other option than cooperating with the saw the ira help this situation be stopped lives and israel's understandably concerned though there's a country saying all this. doing hezbollah well i'm iranian i live in canada better than uranium and i know what's going on in iraq on iranian government and their revolutionary guard thirteen has well law and eighty and then so there is prison terrorism in the in the area also be stopped. very well if i don't think this region both country its what it once they are superpowers in middle east but the

thing is we have russia we have china now we have united states and even it's not in the benefit of that they need kin them in saudi arabia on i understand that they can then wants to have the power around himself by the at the same time it's only the proxy war. in his interest and i don't think there are going to be a. long lasting board between two countries and that's how cool heads prevail for now there thanks for your insight how to share as i was a day iran analyst and director for the international center for human rights really appreciate you coming on our team this morning thank you sir if i will more next on the significant shift happening right now within saudi arabia plenty of reforms taking place there cross talks up next looking at why they'll resonate not just at home but also abroad than have your neck starting international headline news in about half an hour i'll see you then.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered peter lavelle recent events coming out of saudi arabia are truly stunning 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 complex and trumping ministrations appears to be on board. across talking saudi arabia i'm joined by my guest martin j. in beirut he is a freelance broadcast journalist also in beirut we have. he is a political analyst and in washington we have joe he is a policy analyst at the arab center washington d.c. all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate martin let me go to you first in beirut there are so

many elements of what's going on with the story domestically in saudi arabia and of course across the region particularly in lebanon which of course always includes iran. if you could for our audience because it's not getting a lot of air time because of domestic politics in the u.s. in the u.k. how would you sum up what's actually going on in saudi arabia and in the region go ahead martin. well suppose there's a link between both of them i mean saudi arabia is based.