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just after six am in atlanta eight pm in seoul two in the afternoon right here in moscow this friday november the seventeenth welcome to r.t. international our top story twitter no longer just checks to see if you're a real person it's also not judge and jury on views two it's all part of the 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. explain. 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 in the accounts hence the blue tick but twitter says that somewhere along the line this verification became known as an endorsement but if occasion has long been perceived as an endorsement this perception when we open the benefit for public submissions and for people who. the blue tick perch started off to twitter was criticised 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 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 very fast found 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 the

us republican party activist john griffin so use twitter bosses are stifling debate on issues that matter to people. so the idea of you know twitter accounts on the basis of hate is is more to me of a of a symbolic gesture towards preventing dialogue leads leads to you know 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 create been to 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 well facebook has 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 on the wrist the tool is designed to disclose information about the ownership structure of media and glitz it's also looks into editorial policy in 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 face because left its users does. 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 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. ok moving on this hour the u.n. security council will shortly have one more big extending the joint investigation teams work on chemical weapons incidents in syrian about is after russia and america stole to each other's attempts to extend the group's mandate. russia has acted to obstruct these investigations russia is being blamed for everything as usual russia had hoped to vary the truth legitimate trying to disparage our country russia has played games with too many groceries not playing games you are trying to play games with russia wants

a mechanism but not an independent one would protest against this blatant professionalism russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism. those who voted against russia's draft resolution are responsible for the by the joint investigative mechanism to stop operating. in russia vetoed washington's latest attempt at passing a draft bill in the un that was over and that in the rebel held town can she cooed which killed eighteen people back in april both countries want to prolong the investigation period but are at odds over the timing while the us box 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 the deadly sarin gas attack the report came out in october and was criticized by russia for lacking credibility and sufficient jew diligence wall of moscow's main concerns was with the reliability of the samples

used to form that conclusion as experts currying the probe didn't visit the site and receive data through third parties which transported them out of syria russia's ambassador to the us once again voiced his worries during the latest council session. not knew 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 to sacrifice their own reputation and wrote their names in the history of what was speculation around syria nevertheless that if we want to say this joint investigation is why i love my studio where russia was not alone in blocking the resolution at the united nations bolivia also voted against their draft while china . stained after the vote r.t. spoke exclusively to the bolivian u.n.

ambassador we voted against the resolution because not resolution did or a percent what we need for joining us to. mechanism to to do our position is that there should be independent impartial professional technical investigation of what happened there a report that the g.m. has issued a few weeks ago. he 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 investigation mechanism a should go to that place and to collect evidence in order to have a more transparent independent and complete investigation. investigators are trying to establish why

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realize that the miracle happened. in that. the world anti-doping agency president has admitted that it's almost impossible to separate sports and politics craig reading these comments followed claims that while the upheld the suspension of russia's anti drug body on political grounds it's a sort of. impossible dream isn't it because of it to face a free on a straight to get a hunch for just such a difficult job to go to on thursday resound a fail to be reinstated for not meeting two critical points set by wada but russian officials said those points had no relevance to the agency's work as it met the other eighteen points during a tight time frame in the roadmap to be reinstated these two demands are obviously

of a political nature we want dialogue not addict at. david larkin international anticorruption attorney has expressed regret that there is no procedure to neutralize as it were politics in sport. i think politics and sport is a bad thing i don't think there should ever be any political or geo political importance as in sport unfortunately that's not reality there are some i mean sport isn't and our prize with competing interests what we don't have right now is a procedural and legal framework that neutralizes those completely because of that it's still a factor in sport the media is pinning the blame on one person for a rise in hate crime in the us the f.b.i. confirms an increase in violent incidents we look into after ninety seconds that.

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i. i. i. quarter of an hour into the program welcome back now they term hate crime is usually associated with attacks against minority groups and reports into the problem in the u.s. are suggesting it's very much on the rise. i. a recent f.b.i. report say yes there was an increase in hate related incidents in twenty sixteen and many media outlets have been quick to link it with the u.s. president's strong rhetoric it's more account 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 role 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 the russian government provided no 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. data the highest spike in hate crimes was actually anti white crime well i mean this statistics 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 . but only when i was only president i mean i 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 samir khan r t . israel's top military official says his country is willing to share intelligence on iran with saudi arabia and the remarks could further complicate not only an ongoing standoff between tehran and reopened but also internal affairs in saudi arabia he sally 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 and 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 to really 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. 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 or riyadh has long been a supporter of former prime minister hariri whereas the lebanese president is a known alley of hezbollah a political party with a military wing or at least ties with iran political science professor collin

cavill sees the israeli military chief statement as a move to form a new coalition against tehran this is the first open. public collaboration and acknowledgement that there is a strong relationship between israel and saudi arabia you can assure you of so that the united states or. president what this confirms is a alliance between israel saudi arabia. have they remain among so that they can. iran. thing in the region humanitarian groups are urgently calling for lifesaving supplies to be allowed into yemen saudi arabia has been fighting hoochie rebel since twenty fifteen with yemen placed under blockade and it's triggered a serious crisis with millions of people starving and in dire need of medicine.

well face on more has left saudi arabia's main ally questioning its role in the yemen conflict the us high surf representatives agreed on monday to back out of

supporting the saudi led coalition in a non-binding resolution that acknowledges down washington's goal is to defeat al qaeda and supporting riyadh in yemen contradicts non-target congress also called on donald trump to pull out any armed forces the u.s. has in yemen this is all horror and i'm sort of it's hard to see is caused in part by our decision to facilitate a bombing campaign that is murdering children. well since the start of war in march twenty fifteen the u.s. has provided sunday arabia and its allies in yemen with intelligence information military equipment this support all suing tooted refueling flights for coalition warplanes and as mentioned america's involvement was originally intended to fight terrorist organizations however who see rebels remain the main target of saudi attacks a group not recognised as terrorist investigative journalist dave lindorff say's

u.s. officials are beginning to change their minds on the situation in yemen we're seeing that may be the the images coming out and maybe 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 the two thousand and one station 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. an american

on the rights activists who is jailed for releasing thousands of animals from a fur farm is pushing for changes to laws 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 lang and i and thirty 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 save 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 the controversial law under which kevin was jailed was passed in its current form back in two thousand and six. inches or interferes with any organization that deals with on the most if an individual causes more than one hundred thousand dollars worth of damage they could face up to ten years in prison kevin johnson 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 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 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 more r t program is right ahead and i'll see you back here and often are sometimes day with r.t. .

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government and low taxes of physician who's one that when you go to bed with government you must expect the disease it spreads to find out when they what he means by that he's always outspoken ron paul host of the ron paul liberty report he joins us from lake jackson texas a lot of things to cover today but first your son send the pauli's would turn to capitol hill and to severing moldable injuries during an attack in his yard what was that all about and how was he doing. he's doing fine i he still aching head and i don't know whether he should be back in washington but he's managing oh take a but you know i don't know much more than what i read in the papers i've talked with him back but i think he's a little bit befuddled befuddled as well because he's not quite sure of the motivations and right now he's concentrating on getting better rather than trying

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