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was i am was. turkey pulls its troops from a nato exercise after president appears as the enemy on the poster for the driving a wedge between ankara and the military alliance also to come with a crack down on a number of far right public figures in an effort to topple extremism and hate speech the questions are raised over its methods and rebellion in the ranks one hundred former allies of the french president launch a stinging attack against the centrist movement saying it has no respect for democracy. although they're welcome in watching r.t. international this friday even worse just turned eight o'clock here in moscow. a
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gaffe over a nato poster has led to a rock with a key alliance member turkey has ordered its troops out of a joint exercise in norway the poster listed president as an enemy artie's poorest clear as the details well this is a perfect example of how small things can blow up and add to deteriorating relations in a powerful military alliance that happened during a nato training exercise in norway where a poster was unveiled of enemy countries and the last thing you would expect is for the name of the turkish president eduard to be on that poster bearing in mind that turkey is a key player in nato now the turkish president at one has responded by saying he's pulling out the forty turkish soldiers who were participating in this exercise. the used to norway in that shot that was mine and i took picture. they told me that they are withdrawing our food to soldiers from. i told them to do
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that elude. the company lower lines like that turkey is the second largest nato military force and also a key american ally in the middle east so it's not clear how this incident is going to affect relations the secretary general of nato has apologized saying that the mistake was conducted by a civilian contractor and not an employee of nato that it so he doesn't represent their views an investigation is under way but it is perhaps ironic because the secretary general is himself from norway where these military drills were taking place so he's having to apologize for mistake in his own country the relationship between nato entity is already shaky you have the turkish president eduard criticizing concerns that were expressed by nato over a military deal between turkey and russia involving four hundred empty air defense missile systems at the same time nato has repeatedly criticized the ones apparent
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what they say is an apparent autocratic tendencies and there's also been a lot of scrutiny regarding turkey's rule of law and democracy particularly when it comes to nato membership so the last thing the relationship between turkey and nato needs is for something like this to happen even if nato is insisting that it was a mistake. now a number of twitter accounts belonging to far right figures have been stripped of their verified status the network says it is changing its guidelines overconcerned the blue badge is seen as a sign of indorsed weak verification illustrated by a blue tick on twitter was a symbol that a user's account is genuine so if you take the account here of donald trump the blue thick hair denotes that yes these really are the words of the u.s. president it's a bit like a certificate of authenticity. for a designer handbag or a hologram stick on the back of a box containing
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a computer game and high profile users like trump might have hundreds of fake and parenting accounts hence the blue tick but twitter says that somewhere along the line this verification became known as an endorsement. of the blue list of the new guidelines surely misleading people promoting violence inciting harassment and the list goes on nearly detect users include tommy robert confusion over the new policy.
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what about accounts like these mohammed al a reef e 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 stream as m.
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and hate speech it's not clear how making itself the object right and wrong with a seal of approval is going to fix that. r t london where us republican party activist john griffin 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 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
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certainly a question that i think needs to be asked and looked at honestly meanwhile facebook is also rolled out a new tool as part of its efforts to reach out to fake news it's introduced what are called trust indicators and they are supposed to help users distinguish between reliable publishes and those peddling misinformation online for now it does cover only a small group of outlets 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 the companies 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 is basing its trust indicators on the completely flawed idea that what
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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 that is completely backwards. and undemocratic that's why the french president's political movement has been described from the inside one thousand to one hundred members of his centrist political group are resigning after publicly expressing contempt for its policies and actions show it to be in ski as the us it's only six months since emanuel much
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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 la republica marsh 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 each 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
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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 a 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 suggests just how unpopular mr khan has become meanwhile mr man 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 commission officers of the market not to let the other. person sing for some forsake the system don't give officers who are for saving lives over that only shut down with every one hundred people leaving his own party may just be
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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. . in other news tonight the u.n. security council has one more chance to extend a joint investigation into chemical weapons attacks in syria japan has submitted a new draft for consideration and voting on the resolution is expected later today that is after russia and america stalled each other's attempts to extend the mandate of a group of researchers on thursday has been following the story. the usa had put forward a resolution it was blocked russia had put forward a resolution it was also blocked and there was quite a heated exchange of words inside the camera everything as usual russia had hoped to bury the truth lou but you would you know trying to disparage or come tree
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russia not playing games you were trying to play games with those russia wants a mechanism but not an independent one would produce a protest against these greats and professionalism russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism so those who voted against russia's draw for his illusion are responsible for the firing of the joint investigative mechanism to stop operating. the investigation was looking into. a coon in the city of concha kuhn back in april eighty people were killed in a chemical weapons attack now the united states their resolution will put forward essentially to just continue the investigation as normal now russia they put forward their resolution they called for reforms and changes in the manner in which the o.p.c. w was investigating the attack they pointed out that the syrian government was being blamed by the o.p.c. w. officials yet they never actually visited the site of the attack and they were
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relying on samples from third parties and there are a lot of problems with the way the o.p.c. w. investigation was being carried out now japan is putting forward a resolution that would extend the investigation for thirty days now we've heard from the russian foreign ministry they have said moscow sees no point in technical extension of the mandate of o.p.c. w on syria without correcting the existing shortcomings it's interesting also to note that in the meeting yesterday nikki haley claimed that u.s. officials were trying to reach russian officials and that somehow these calls were not being connected something was wrong with the phones now we've heard a response to those comments from russian's foreign minister sergey lavrov and. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations has claimed that the recent attempts to reach our representative vasoline happened 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
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now have fake diplomacy. so it's same as the voting will be taking place on japan's resolutions we'll be keeping our eye on the u.n. security council chamber as it seems the whole world is wondering what's going to happen next with this chemical weapons investigation that seems to have so many leading countries divided. up and reporting well international affairs commentator jonathan steele believes there's a simple explanation for the un security council's i'm willingness to adopt russia's draft very clearly. existing findings of the existing commission would throw the whole thing back into the melting pot so they're just trying to stand on the existing position and resist any kind of change especially if it's returned. put forward by russia i mean russia is not unfortunately always in a minority in the security council the first with a following of western governments the u.s.
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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 rainy and x. weeks we've seen that resignation by the it needs to be made in person and you lebanon since he made that announcement leading to some. returns 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 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
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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 riyad has long been a supporter of former prime minister hariri however the lebanese president is a known ally of hezbollah a political wing with a political party with a military wing backed by iran meanwhile lebanon's foreign minister has called on saudi arabia to let mr hariri return home. but this situation is on acceptable for lebanon because it violates lebanon sovereignty it's external meddling in our internal affairs our democratic processes this sets a dangerous precedent if we continue down this path it will happen more and more often whenever a government official visits a foreign country that we have very good relations with saudi arabia but it will take a lot of effort on the part of the saudis to try and convince the world that what's
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happening is nothing out of the ordinary we still want to maintain our high level of relations with saudi arabia so we have avoided any escalation all we want to do is convince your brothers in saudi arabia to give back or better yet let hariri return to lebanon. than staying in the region humanitarian groups are calling for lifesaving supplies to be allowed. into yemen sat in the country civil war since twenty fifteen and has placed it under blockade that's exacerbated a serious crisis with millions of people in dire need of basic supplies.
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and in fact this has left saudi arabia's main ally questioning its role in the yemen conflict the u.s. house of representatives has agreed to back an act of supporting the side led coalition in a known binding resolution it acknowledges that washington's go in the middle east is to defeat and al-qaeda 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 he rebels who remain the main target of society attacks are not recognized as terrorists therefore america's backing of saudi operations in yemen might have affected the bloodshed that's the thought from inside of the u.s. senate this horror and i'm sure 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
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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 investigative 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 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 there is a should act 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 recession
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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. now the term hate crime is usually associated with attacks against people on the basis of their religion ethnicity or membership of other social groups and reports to indicate the problem is on the rise in the u.s. . when a recent f.b.i. report suggests an increase in hate related incidents in twenty six dana many media outlets have been quick to link it with the u.s. president's strong rhetoric smear account takes a closer look now 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.
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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 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 kicked off his controversial campaign was actually a third higher let's zoom out some more seventeen years ago during the bush
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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 with the russian government they have 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. 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 it's significant if. statistically insignificant dollars drop at all even though i was only president i mean i was
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only the president elect. the power 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 so america on our t.v. and that brings you up to date to siphon asinine here not see more news from us inhofe and. i i i. know this and in fact. that many of us have you monkey see it because you want to question. the one that's. about the job.
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they call me a useful idiot i mean you called me a useful idiot a useful idiot useful idiots go expressing my opinions on the first two sins of us doing it behind his record is the same strategy we attack persons instead of talking about the org what's next why stop will feel banned me from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group called pink why not ban the color pink one outstretch dildo right i should be sent to the town one because i want to try to break me on the wheel but out with a long time of this sort of nonsense you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out in good company i'm in good company you going with me you want to do this because we'll freezing cold.
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creevy had that's hello in russian and welcome to the stan collymore show now in september england's two biggest rivals liverpool and manchester united play in the russian capital on consecutive champions league nights what the odds of the u.i. for the two moscow rivals c.s. guy and spot check into the mix you can imagine the tabloid media went into overdrive predicting armageddon so of course as a good journalist i have to say for myself.
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in the middle of us going to still see a man one with that famous life the burden is just another one with a bag with lots of stickers and shake will follow which is very good of course it must go on the ball so the name on it and you have very good friends posts your little poll final. and your manchester united fan so you hear both supporting each of those teams over two days.
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