this is a terrifying opinion which is accused of specifically drowning out right wing views with new rules designed to tackle extremism in. russia and america lock horns over the future of a chemical weapons investigation in syria veto washington's latest proposal of the un. investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and it's not known from who will win this unreliable evidence came from it falls apart like a house of cards. also this week the remarkable story of survival a three year old girl rescued from a plane crash that killed six people in eastern russia.

moscow this friday the seventeenth of november this is the news from r.t. international beginning with the twitter police tightening the thumbscrews and reaction to that because twitter no longer just checks to see if you're a real person it's also now judge and jury on views too it's all part of new guidelines being laid down by the social network and it's resulted in a number of radical voices being stripped of their official status but not all of them as police explained. 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 to 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 us republican party activist john griffin says twitter bosses are 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. facebook's also been making headlines for its new tool called trust indicates it's time to flagging up fake news on the site distinguishing between trustworthy publishers and the rest of the tools designed to disclose information about the ownership structure of media outlets it also looks into editorial policy in fact checking ability reviewing headlines and articles but it's actually up to the publishers themselves to provide the information we had from a political activist who believes facebook's letting it to use is 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. but here in america restoring each other's attempts to extend an investigation teams work on

chemical weapons incidents in syria 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 me 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 little russia vetoed washington's latest attempt to passing a draft bill of the u.n. both want to prolong the investigation period but it all goes over the timing now while the u.s. backs the investigation into the chemical attack moscow believes it needs to be completely reviewed. the joint commission leading the investigation claims the

syrian government was responsible for a deadly sarin gas attack in the rebel held town of country khun which killed eighty people back in april and the report came out in october and was criticized by russia for lacking credibility and sufficient due 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 which transported them out of syria russia's ambassador to the un has once again voiced his worries during the latest council session not you would you know. 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 and egypt abstained and after the vote r.t. spoke exclusively to the bolivian u.n. ambassador. we wanted to get a resolution because not a solution didn't represent to the what we need for joining us so you mechanism to to to do our position is that there should be 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 their track the l.h. typed in should call saw the g.m. to join vertical the mechanism a should goal to that place or to collect evidence in order to have a more transparent independent and complete investigation. term

hate crime is usually associated with attacks against minority groups and reports into the problem in the us are suggesting it's very much on the rise. i. a recent f.b.i. report suggests a spike in a related incident in twenty sixteen and 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 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 the 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 of him talking about how he will increase in

a mosque in between ethnic and racial groups the united states does not happen they talked about how he is colluded with the russian government they have provided no 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. as data of the highest spike in hate crimes was actually anti white crime well i mean this statistic 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 and donald trump at all even paul was only president i mean it was only the president elect. of the past for the last two months or twenty sixteen while 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. . the skaters are trying to establish why

a light aircraft crashed in eastern russia on wednesday killing six people however the incredible story of one girl just three years old and the sole survivor of that crash has kept it hard to allied. were. and the same feelings are crucial to the govt should not she was fall in line and she knew that the end was close and was to see the child. were.

real lucky that the miracle happened. oh you. will. so she makes a speedy recovery this is a israels made a surprise admission about which country is willing to share sensitive intel with find out who and why after a quick break. i've played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside out it's. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch pull the funnel school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money just kill you narrowness and spending two hundred twenty million and one player. it's an experience like nothing else on to because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful

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only an ongoing standoff between tehran and riyadh but also internal affairs within saudi arabia he picks up a story. over the past ten or fifteen years there's been a feeling amongst those in tel aviv 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 that 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 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. a 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 french president emmanuel macron the french leader and he has said. he's 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 he's really reporting there will riyadh long been a supporter of former prime minister hariri whereas the lebanese president is a known ally of hezbollah a militant group and a political party backed by iran but ethical science professor colin 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 so that the united states or as a group this is a president what this confirms is

a dry on earth alliance between israel saudi arabia. and they remain among so that they can contain iran. saying in the region humanitarian groups are urgently calling for lifesaving supplies to be allowed into yemen saudi arabia has been fighting who think rebels there since twenty fifteen with yemen placed under blockade and that's triggered a serious crisis with millions of people starving and in dire need of medicine.

all this is left saudi arabia's main ally questioning its role in the yemen conflict the u.s. house of representatives agreed on monday to back out of supporting the saudi led coalition and a non-binding resolution that acknowledges that washington's goal is to defeat al qaida and supporting riyadh in yemen contradicts that target congress also called on donald trump to pull out any armed forces the u.s. has in yemen this all horror and i'm a story it's hard to see is caused in part by our decision to facilitate a bombing campaign that is murdering children

a sense of sort of the war in march twenty fifth day in the u.s. has provided saudi arabia and its allies in yemen with intelligence information and military equipment the support also included refueling flights for coalition warplanes as i mentioned earlier america's involvement was originally intended to fight terrorist organizations however the healthy rebels remain the main target of saudi attacks and they're a group not recognized as terrorists and that's a good journalist dave lindorff says that u.s. officials are beginning to change their minds on the situation in yemen. for seeing that may be the the images coming out in may be the world opinion that's starting to shift on yemen is leading these people in the in the congress to in the senate to look at this and say do we really want to get dragged into another . war it's a shift. has been used abused since it was passed practically which

goes all the way back to two thousand and one if they're waking up to the idea that they can't just keep stretching the boundaries of this two thousand and one authorization for use of military force. you know they say they should do that but they may you know come up with new acts to do the same thing. that american animal rights activist who was jailed for releasing thousands of animals from a phone is pushing for changes to the on defending animal welfare kevin johnson was locked up for three years on charges which included terrorism he talked us through what he did and why two thousand and thirteen a close friend of mine tyler lange and i answered the east for coming cranch in northern illinois for thirty six years of the facility that was imprisoning and killing manc 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 censored 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. well the controversial law under which kevin was jailed was passed in its current form back in two thousand and six it bans action the damages or interferes with any organization that deals with animals and if an individual causes more than one hundred thousand dollars worth of damage they can face up to ten years in prison kevin gave us his views on being treated as a terrorist 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 then use 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. right that's it for now get breaking

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