uh the true colors of universities in the u.s. . turkey pulled its troops from a nato exercise after president says he was labeled an enemy for the driving a wedge between ankara and the like. porter to come the twitter crack down on. i. welcome you watching r.t. international this friday evening which just turned ten o'clock in moscow and our top story turkey is pulling its troops out of a nato exercise after president says he was branded an enemy in the alliance's internal messaging network an always defense minister has already apologized for the gaffe which further worsened relations between ankara and nato with more his poor asli well this is a perfect example of how small things can blow out that 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 their poster bearing in mind that turkey is a key player in nato now the turkish president everyone has responded by saying he's pulling out the forty turkish soldiers who were participating in this exercise lot of it. there used an enemy chart in norway in that chart that was my name and added took a picture. i gave instructions to immediately withdraw our food to soldiers there can be no alliance 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 certainly 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 and turkey is already shaky you have the turkish president eduard criticizing concerns that were expressed by nato over a military deal between 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. twitter is cracking down on far right groups and individuals it is stripping them of their verified status over fears the blue badge could be seen as an endorsement although critics do say that the measure is not being applied consistently as polly boyko reports. 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 take 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 in the 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 the people who. the blue tick perch 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 d. take two 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 and us republican party activist john griffin told us why he sees the move was 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 certainly a question that i think needs to be asked and looked at honestly well meanwhile facebook has also need to as part of its efforts to reach out to fake news it's introduced what are called trust indicate is and they are supposed to help ease distinguish between reliable publishes and peddling misinformation online fanatic of a small group of that but it will be expanded in the future the feature details the organizations editorial policies fact checking abilities as well as a structure but it's actually up to the companies themselves to provide their own information we heard from a political activist who believes the social networking giant has let down its uses . 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 that what most of the u.s. 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 backward. now arrogant and undemocratic that's why the french president's political movement has been described from the inside to one hundred members of his centrist political group are quitting after publicly expressing contempt for its policies and their actions

show it to be in scheme as the details it's only six months since emanuel much gone 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 law republican marsh say they quitting the party because the party which promised democracy isn't they say democratic and they say it's our look 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 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 think these are difficult not that i'd like. for some forsake the system don't give more forces or for civil war it only

shuts 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 so it didn't ski r.t. . well we spoke to human rights and civil liberties activist who says that mccrone should listen to the people. he's running his party in the same way he's running the country with arrogance and disdain for all evident i agree with him we shouldn't forget and i repeat myself the said here are a few weeks ago mccourt came out of nowhere he was elected what fifty one percent of the french people abstain from voting during a parliamentary elections fifty seven percent of the french also abstained from voting so this person has only two assets his age and the stock market and that's also used to biggest liabilities because he has no deporting the french political

system and he's also perceived as the president of the rich is stuck in here in that seat of the palace it's on him to show more openness to was a french people and to listen to the street people world security but he's sending them the police what depriving them of jobs and you know and the financial security people want to are equal and fair access to job opportunities to. the u.n. security council has one more chance to extend a joint investigation into chemical weapons attacks in syria japan has submitted on draft the consideration and voting on a resolution is expected a bit later today so after russia and america stalled each other's attempts to extend the mandate of a group of researchers on thursday kind of mopping 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 council chamber let's look at some of the

highlights from yesterday's meeting russia has acted to obstruct these investigations public pressure is being blamed for everything as usual russia had hoped to bury the truth lidgerwood you know trying to disparage or come tree russia has played games with too many groceries not playing games you are trying to play games with those russia wants a mechanism but not an independent one with what it used to protest against these great and professionalism russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism. voted against russians draw for a solution are responsible for the find of the joint investigative mechanism to stop operating. the investigation was looking into. 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 opi c.w. officials yet they never actually visited the site of the attack and they were relying on samples from third parties and that 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 are an. somehow these calls were not being connected something was wrong with the phones and now we've heard a response to those comments from russian's foreign minister sergei lavrov.

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 we also now have diplomacy issue. so it seems the voting will be taking place on japan's resolution 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 kalam up in the international affairs commentator and still believes there is a simple explanation as to why the u.n. security council was unwilling to adopt russia's draft. 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 your turn to. put forward by russia and russia and fortunately always in the minority in the security council. of the government the u.s. britain france particularly. meanwhile the french military say that the international coalition in syria had opposed a deal that allowed i saw terrorist safe passage from their former stronghold of. the coalition was not for this agreement which enabled islamic state terrorists to escape without being chased the convoy was monitored by drones but the terrorists were mixed in with the population which prevented strikes been carried out the city of racket was liberated in late october when the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces struck a deal with the terrorists the agreement allowed them to withdraw so i still controlled territory and at the time almost three hundred syrian militants along

with their families left the city according to the s.d.f. spokesman and no foreign fighters were among them however recent media reports to suggest that foreign fighters comprised a large part of that convoy and some of them have already been smuggled into turkey and the united states has defended the deal and denied the information that many foreign militants might have fled the city we followed these buses as the departed in opportunities presented themselves to conduct strikes against any potential isis fighters were had decided to flee then we would have we would have provided strikes there did not present itself and there were a lot many civilians are a part of their convoy so that did not happen you can you say that no isis fighters leave the cities and go somewhere else we can say with one hundred percent

certainty that every single fighter was identified coming out of rocker mark armand the director of the crisis research institute believes this latest divide in the coalition is down to the growing ambitions of the french leader. problems on the present back on is playing a more assertive role in the middle east to try to mediate the lebanon crisis with relations between saudi arabia and iran but of course that crisis is a reflection of the syrian crisis the the struggle for influence over syria in which iran is on one side and the saudis are very definitely on the other and so the french don't particularly like the idea all radical isis fighters several hundred of whom may be from france and belgium escaping from syria and perhaps returning to western europe to wreak mayhem and the french also would like to be able to influence policy because they think they have expertise traditional role in the region in the levant and lebanon and syria in particular which gives them insights which perhaps they think the americans don't have. now investigators are

still trying to establish why a light aircraft crashed in eastern russia on wednesday killing six people though the incredible story of one girl just three years old he was the sole survivor has captured hearts well why. the rule of the middle east is that might luck and seeing him return to that ahead a day however the lebanese probably seventy. what we are facing today a further attempts at creating hot beds of chaos and instability which in turn lead to the rise of terrorism is chaos and instability that gives rise to terrorism we're seeing the same scenario in lebanon that's why we chose russia as our final destination on this tour russia has long been on the forefront of the battle

against terrorism. the. we may implement a constructive policy but there's still no guarantee there will be no hostile actions towards our country as in this uprising situation with mr hariri anyone can wage war in lebanon but i still doubt that this scenario is likely because the consequences would affect those starting this sort of war. starting in the region humanitarian groups are calling for lifesaving supplies to be allowed into yemen saudi arabia has been involved in the country's civil war since twenty fifteen and has placed it under a blockade that though has exacerbated a serious crisis with millions of people in dire need of basic supplies.

and this has left saudi arabia's main ally questioning its role in the yemen conflict the us has a representatives have agreed to back out of supporting the saudi led coalition in a non-binding resolution that acknowledges that washington's going in the middle east is defeat i saw an al qaida there for 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 saudi attacks are not recognized as terrorists that fall america's backing of saudi operations in yemen might have affected the bloodshed that thoughts from inside of the u.s. senate this all horror and i'm not 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 u.s. has provided saudi arabia and its allies in yemen with intelligence information and military equipment the support also included refueling frights for coalition warplanes investigative journalist dave lindorff says u.s. officials are beginning to change their minds on the situation in yemen for seeing that maybe 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 schneck 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 do thousand and one recession 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 to

you that the problem is on the rise in the u.s. . in fact a recent f.b.i. report does suggest 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 simethicone 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. 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 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 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 the 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 the.