this hour's headlines stories twitter removes it's a blue tick tick ation from a number of far right public figures in an effort to tackle extremism on hate speech but questions are raised about how the measure is being applied. to russia and america lock horns in the un security council over the extension of an investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria. rebellion in the ranks one hundred former allies of the french president launch a victrola cats not against a centrist movement saying it has no respect for democracy.

live around the world from our teach queue in moscow welcome to the program you know neal with you this news hour we'll get to those headlines stories in just a moment but we want to begin with some breaking news for you a helicopter a plane believed to be a light being involved in a made collision in the english county of booking i'm sure which is around eighty kilometers northwest of london there is no word on casualties the moment all the emergency services are present at the scene including a drone over the fallen wreckage trying to see what is on the ground the area has been cordoned off by police on the air accident investigation branch has sent a team to in best to get it is quite a leafy area runup the hope is that it did not hit any residential areas on the way down the helicopter or the pain will be keeping a close eye on this story no immediate reason has been given for the crash well

that's your breaking news for this hour a major crash in booking i'm sure england. number of twitter accounts belonging to far right figures have been stripped of their verified status the network say it is changing its guidelines over concerns the blue is seen as a sign of indorsement but critics say the measure is not being consistently applied reporting from london. 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 all 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 and accounts hence the blue tick but twitter says that somewhere along the line this verification became known as an endorsement verification has long been perceived as an endorsement this perception when we open the benefit for public submissions and then for people who we. 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 extremism 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 you know we've been getting reaction on this including from us republican party activist john griffin who told us why he sees the move as problematic. so the idea of you know

firing twitter accounts on the basis of hate is is more to me of a of a symbolic gesture towards preventing dialogue leads leads to a 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 well moving from twitter to facebook which is also rolled out a new tool as part of its effort to root out fake news it's introduce water cold trust indicators now they're supposed to help users distinguish between reliable publishers and those peddling misinformation on line for not it covers

a small group of until it's but it's to be expanded in the future the feature details the organizations editorial policies the 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 dying. 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 so is completely backwards. oregon earned on democratic about 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 with the details for years here charlotte dubin ski. it's only six months since emanuel met corn came to power in france on the back of a wave of his new movement all marsh 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 ever ok 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 reforms of the working directive and the latest poll suggests just how unpopular mr conne has become meanwhile mr man who's 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 commission these are difficult. for some forsaking the system don't give officers who are for civil limits already shut down with every one 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. r.t. . term hate crime is usually associated with

attacks against groups of people based on their religion ethnicity or membership of a certain social group and problems in report into the problem in the us are suggesting that it is on the rise take a look. i . a recent f.b.i. reports suggest an increase in hate related incidents over twenty sixteen and many media outlets have been quick to link it with the u.s. president's strong rhetoric simply recounting 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 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 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 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 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. as data of the highest spike in hate crimes was actually anti white crime well i mean the statistics don't bear that out. in two thousand and sixteen the number of hate crimes ticked up very slightly but its significance. statistically insignificant and donald trump at all even if i was only president i mean i was only the president elect. of the past for the last two months or twenty six the 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.

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a new resolution for consideration and it's expected to be behind closed doors in the coming number of hours now that is after russia and america stalled each other's attempts to extend the group's mandate let's get further into this story kill a bump and joins us live from new york killer so we're waiting on this latest draft any chance of it being adopted do you think it all seems to come down to this one well we have yet another resolution japan has put forward a resolution after we just saw a rather dramatic day at the united nations with both the resolution put forward by the united states and a resolution put forward by russ russia both being blocked quite a heated war of words in the chamber halls let's take a listen to the highlights from yesterday's meeting 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 a mechanism but not an independent one would protest against this blatant professionalism russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism. of those who voted against russia's draft resolution and are responsible for the fact that the joint investigative mechanism to stop operating. now at this point there are conflicts and disagreements about the resolutions put forward in order to extend the investigation into the toxic gas attack in the town of conscious kuhn in syria now eighty people were killed that was back in april now russia blocked the proposal from the united states they put forward their own draft resolution which was also not passed both countries want to prolong the

investigation into chemical weapons in syria however they disagree about how to do it the u.s. resolution which was blocked said they just want to prolong the existing investigation moscow believes that the investigation needs to be completely reviewed moscow looked over the recent report from the o.p.c. w. joint investigative mechanism they came to the un and accused the syrian government of the attack however if you look at the methodology they use they never actually visited the site where this chemical weapons attack took place furthermore they relied on samples from third parties including groups that had ties to terrorists like the white house and other n.g.o.s so it was not considered to be an objective investigation now as as debating went on in the chamber both of the resolutions were shot down the resolution from united states and the resolution from russia and so now in the lead up to today we've actually heard from u.s. ambassador nikki haley and she says that for some reason the phones at russia's

missions aren't working and she claims she's been trying to reach russia's diplomats trying to reach them and to discuss future negotiations and such however a surrogate allows the foreign minister he seems to the foreign minister of russia he seems to dispute what nikki haley is saying this is what the foreign minister of russia had to say. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations has claimed that the recent attempts to reach our representative. to discuss a common text or a draft resolution. that's a total lie i guess it means we have a new phenomenon in international relations not only do we have fake news we also now have fake diplomacy. so once again all eyes are on the u.n. headquarters here in manhattan where in the security council chamber yet another resolution proposing to prolong the work of the joint investigative mechanism in

the chemical weapons is being put forward this time by japan so we'll be keeping you updated as we watch the proceedings thanks for that care about becoming in the coming hours outdraw for a solution put forward by japan pain life from new york thank you international affairs commentator jonathan steele meanwhile believes there's a simple explanation for the un security council's own willingness to adopt russia's draft. existing findings of the existing commission for the whole thing back into the multiple so they're just trying to strong position resist any time to train specially if you turn from. russia and russia unfortunately we're going to minority in the security council the first two is the father uses. us britain france particularly. it's another big story of the week israel's top military official says 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 picking 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 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 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. has long been a supporter of former prime minister hariri whereas the lebanese president is a known ally of hezbollah a political party with a military wing backed by iran political science professor calling kapil ses the israeli military chief statement is a move to form a new coalition against iran this is the first open. public collaboration and acknowledgement that there is

a strong relationship between israel and saudi arabia and you can assure you that the you know. what this confirms is a true of alliance between israel saudi arabia. and have they remain among so they could in iran. right switching gears now the world anti doping agency president has admitted that it's almost impossible to separate sports and politics craig reading these comments followed claims by russian sports officials that while apel the suspension of the country's drug body on political grounds it's a sort of. impossible dream isn't it because the fates. of the one sport is such an important part of people's lives back on thursday russia

sports drug testing agency rosado was denied reinstatement as it had failed to meet two of the criteria points said by wada but russian officials are other than those points have no relevance to the agency's work on that it had met the other eighteen during a tight time frame here's what russia's sports minister had to see in the wake of what has the situation. these two to monsoreau be usefully of a political nature we want not to dictate that david larkin on international corruption attorney thinks it's regrettable that there is no procedure to go into a more level playing field i think politics in sport is a bad thing i don't think there should ever be any political or geo political importance and sport unfortunately that's not reality there are some i mean sport is an enterprise 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. so let's get a reminder of our breaking news this hour a helicopter on a plane being involved in a mid air collision in the english county of booking i'm sure the area around eighty kilometers northwest of london according to reports up to four people may have been killed in that crash some reports say a light aircraft was involved meaning it could have been a one person aircraft up to possibly ten or twelve seater perhaps more emergency services all different branches all of those are present on the scene the area being cordoned off by the police we are waiting on at footage and photos from the area just to know what kind of situation is ongoing there the earth accidents investigation branch has now sent a team to investigate there is no immediate reason being given for the crash the hope that it was an emergency landing rather than

a crash landing naing really being less and it seems there are casualties if not fatalities in the midair collision. could out as one of the stories we'll be keeping a very close eye on over the coming hours i'll be here in half an hour's time with more global news updates next it's r t program's ahead. kids all over. the. media ocean today wolf that is how it is how our could.