twitter removes its bluetooth convert cation from a number of far right public figures in an attempt to stream is hate speech but questions are raised eyebrows of punitive measure is being applied. russia and america lock horns over the future of a chemical weapons investigation in syria. washington's latest proposal to the. investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and it's not known from who. evidence came from. the house of cards. a remarkable story of survival we need to three year old girl rescued from a plane crash in eastern russia that killed all the six other people.

around the clock across the world this is our international from the team myself you know neil welcome to the program our top story this hour a number of twitter accounts belonging to a far right figures have been stripped of their verified status the network sais it is changing its guidelines over concerns the blue is seen as a sign of endorsement but critics say the measure is not being consistently applied reporting pauli boyo. 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 take 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. and has long been perceived as an then. this perception when we open the buffer case for public submissions and then for people who. 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 twitter 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 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 or

us republican party activist john griffin told us why he sees the movers problematic. 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 that 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 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 has also rolled out a new tool as part of its effort to root out fake news it's introduced what are

called trust indicators now they're supposed to help users distinguish between reliable publishers on those peddling misinformation on line for not it covers a small group of audience but is to be expanded in the future the feature details the organizations editorial policies fact checking abilities as well as ownership structure but it's actually up to them to provide their own information we heard from a political activist who believes the social networking giant has let 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 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. the u.n. security council will have one more chance to extend a joint investigation into chemical weapons attacks in syria later on friday japan has submitted a new resolution for consideration after russia and america stalled each other's attempts to extend the group's mandate. 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 too many groceries not playing games you are trying to play games with russia wants american and some but not an independent one would produce protest against this blatant professionalism russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism to burgle so those who voted against russia's draft resolution are responsible for the firing of the joint investigative mechanism to stop operating. the russian veto the u.s. draft resolution to extend the probe into a toxic gas attack in syria is cool and which happened last april killing over eighty people law school's own draft resolution also didn't pass the u.n. vote both countries want to prolong the investigation period but over different terms the u.s. box the existing investigation into the chemical attack whereas moscow believes it needs to be completely reviewed in october the joint commission leading the investigation released the report blaming the syrian government for the incident

russia criticized the conclusion for lacking credibility sufficient diligence while of moscow's main concerns was with the reliability of the samples used to form the conclusion experts involved in the probe didn't visit the site and receive data through third parties which transported them arts of syria. well international affairs commentator jonathan steele i'm happy to say joins us now to discuss the security council's attempt to prolong the investigation jonathan thanks for your time this hour and what do you think will be the outcome of the vote on japan's draft resolution later japan is basically saying jim should be extended for thirty days as opposed to the one year extension the u.s. is saying. well i think probably it will pass in the sense that their western governments will support it but to russia well. it is not very different

from the us resolution except as you've pointed out is shorter and tired. russia's decision to veto the u.s. drafted resolution has been widely criticized we can take a listen to a short clip on what's being said john. russia's transparent use of its security council status to block this investigation again shows that as a party to the conflict it cannot credibly play a leading role in the political process such as convening the syrian parties in such the british ambassador to the un revealed you want no place for russia in syria's political process there it is this is the reason why this backhanded story goes on to question russia's role in the political process so there we have the russian ambassador to the u.n. saying probe the investigation didn't want any kind of involvement by moscow your thoughts on that statement. well of course that's ridiculous but russia is

a crucial player in this case in syria in this war in syria and it is part is done in the sense that it supports the syrian government but then western governments including the british government are parties around in the supporting the armed opposition so sorry that somebody cannot take part because they are supporting one side or the other is absurd we want people who are involved in the problem to be at the solution so all people should be there including russia and the united states does this come down to simply. why is it proving so difficult for all of the security council members to agree on a resolution on investigating chemical attacks in syria. because it's become sort of part design because people rushed to judgment very soon after the. incident is the syrian government was accused of being behind it before any investigators did go and gone in there and raise suspicions why is this

becoming a political issue when their investigation and you have been taken and as you pointed out no investigators from the organization for the prevention of prohibition of chemical weapons ever went to the site in conscious and so that also raises problems and finally there's the whole question of motive i mean the last thing that assad would have wanted with that storage was to be accused of chemical weapons attack that it helped the rebels much more to have this chemical weapon attack in the sense that donald trump which had said and his administration it's a very sore subject remaining in power for some limited time at least in syria it was obviously people who didn't like that would want to undermine that statement by the president of the united states jonathan always great to have you on the program thanks for taking the time this hour jonathan steele international affairs commentator. now i too have

a very peculiar story 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 just three years old who was the sole survivor has captured hearts worldwide. and the same feeling as it related to shoulder the girl the body she was found lying or. the endless close aim was to save the child.

but the miracle happened the you. know the term hate crime is usually associated with attacks against minority groups on reports into the problem in the u.s. are suggesting it's on the right. a recent f.b.i. report suggests an increase in hate related incidents in twenty sixteen many media outlets have been quick to link it with the u.s. president's strong rhetoric samir account takes a closer look now at the coals and the face 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 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 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'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 statistic don't bear that out. in two thousand and sixteen the number of hate crimes ticked up very slightly but it's significant. statistically insignificant. but only been 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 one hundred former allies of the french president issued a blistering attack against and accusing his centrist movement of having no respect for democracy we'll be talking not after this. global war on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that will. produce offspring to tell you that the tabloids were little. off the bat doesn't tell you on the cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along with all

the. people using markets to wage war against country a country individual the individual and we saw when goldman sachs and their buddies decided to tear down that country to rip it for billions of dollars of the profits john paulson got goldman sachs and now it's spilling over into the crypto world and the geopolitical world that's happening. this is our two international welcome oregon democratic that the french president's political movement has been described from the inside one hundred members of his

centrist political group are resigning after publicly expressing contempt for its policies and actions show dubinsky bricks on the story it's only six months since emanuel much corn came to power in france on the back of a wave of his new movement or march but already the shine of the young french president and his political revolution is fading one hundred members of what is now level public almost say they quitting the party because the party which promised democracy isn't they say democratic and they say it's a vote and the movement launched by emmanuel macron in april twenty sixth started with the slogan the french people should be at the heart of political life not its deck or now the one hundred of us can't stay with a movement or party without a clear political line and that has failed to be based on the pillars of democracy

denying with the arrogance and contempt the intelligence of the people. the party leadership has dismissed these resignations which come as it prepares for its conference on saturday it points out that one hundred sixty six thousand have joined in the past six months saying some join some leave and that itself is democracy however while it's easy to dismiss one hundred resignations thousands of ordinary citizens keep voicing their anger on the streets of france again and again just on thursday there were major protests held by the trade unions in france who fewest with forms of the working directive and the latest poll suggest just how unpopular mr khan has become meanwhile mr mann is being accused of being the president of the rich says he doesn't know what it means and says he is the president of all french citizens.

for some forsake the system don't give officers here for several. hundred people leaving his own party may just be a drop in the ocean the reality is that many people in france are becoming incredibly unhappy with the young jupiter who had promised so much when he came into office so what do you can ski r.t. . israel's top military officials say as 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 in the kingdom itself picking up the story for us. 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 and 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 the french president emanuel macron the french leader and he has said that assad hereis 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 has long been a supporter of former prime minister hariri whereas the lebanese president is a known all of hezbollah a political party with a military wing back by iran political science professor cullen cavill sees the israeli military chief statement is a move to form a new coalition against tehran this is the first open cooperation 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 the president what this confirms is a alliance between israel saudi arabia. and have they remain among so that they could stay in iran ok let's stay in the

region because humanitarian groups are calling for lifesaving supplies to be allowed urgently into yemen saudi arabia has been involved in the country's civil war since twenty fifteen and has placed that blockade that's exacerbated a serious crisis with millions of people in dire need of basic supplies.

well this has left those images and pictures saudi arabia's me an ally questioning its role in the yemen conflict that is of course american the u.s. house of representatives have agreed to back off supporting the saudi led coalition in a non-binding resolution now it acknowledges that washington's goal in the middle east is to defeat isilon al qaida therefore supporting riyadh in yemen contradicts the target america's involvement in the region is considered to be a part of post nine eleven war on terror but hoochie rebels who remain the main target of saudi attacks are not recognized as terrorist therefore america's backing of saudi operations in yemen might have affected the bloodshed that's the thoughts from inside the u.s. senate 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. well since the start of the war the u.s. has provided saudi arabia and its allies in yemen with intelligence information on military equipment this support also included refueling flights for coalition warplanes investigative journalist dave lindorff sais u.s. officials are beginning to change their mind on the situation in yemen are 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 this 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. twenty four hour news live from the heart of moscow this is r.t. international join me again and huff an hour's time with more global. minutes and ten of. the us have human d.c.

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