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here in moscow thanks for joining us on our international team here putting together. social media giants for failing to crack down on hate speech. particularly. official for not deleting a. tweet. that is still up on your platform why is it i don't know the answer to that question. what is it that we have to do to get you to take it down we are constantly looking at these policies looking at these processes i will take that tweets away and i will come back to you with a definitive answer as to why it is still there social media giants have been facing growing pressure to combat hateful and abusive behavior online in response
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twitter has recently introduced new policies that target accounts calling for violence but the platform has been accused of being rather selective over who it decides to purge. as details. the twitter purge the social network has launched its campaign to root out hate speech we will require offending tweets to be removed and repeated violations will result in pumpkin suspension among the first to go offline the account of the far right u.k. political group britain first known for offensive anti muslim post as well as personal pages of its leaders paul golding and his deputy j. to franzen donald trump came under fire for retreating her anti muslim post last month so far terms page is still up and running the white supremacist magazine american renaissance and its editor were also booted off along with the american nazi party space age where a system discriminatory accounts like these surely have to be shut down but the problem is so far the punishments don't seem to be being doled out with an even
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hand something clearly shown by the number of users who recently posted scores of death threats and promises of violence to the federal communications commission chief over his campaign to scrap net neutrality in the us this user employed both racist terms and call for violence but the account is still active another tweet laying out a desire to kill pie is still readily available and it goes on from there active account school or fine and inciting violence even his wife and children were named and attacked and the past pie himself is called twitter out as one of the problems with an open internet company usually goes when you can. do your own service using this post. this is not a. good place right. now twitter has admitted it will make mistakes in the quest to make the platform a safer place but so far it's a purge seems more than a little messy and on even the people at twitter just like other social media
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platforms are under tremendous pressure because they just see themselves as sort of neutral players but in reality twitter is an active participant in the political process. on the side of the left hateful speech i just i just don't know where i don't even know where that begins and ends and it it seems like it's always up to someone else what what hate is just hate speech in and of itself the phrase itself is always used against conservatives it's never that you never hear about hate speech from the left the restrictions are always on conservatives never on liberals and so i don't i don't take any effort to sort of police twitter or facebook seriously as as a fair exercise. but violent clashes becoming an all too frequent side between german police and the fall f. the anti for movement there's clearly little love lost between the two but that
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conflict is now taking on a new dimension with both sides publishing online galleries of shame against their rivals. peter all of a now taking a closer look at the continued animosity between the two. these days the german police don't have the greatest of relationships with the fall left the pontiff but the latter have certainly stepped up their tactics of late following the hunt for hamburg t twenty protesters were in new commitments of fights against the states and teeth are published photographs of fifty four police offices on a website saying that they were in the wrong for last year's most addiction here in berlin. was the new civil war the money. was. was
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was was i. was. was putting out these photos was revenge. for the police releasing over one hundred images of people they want to speak to in connection with the hamburg g twenty protests in summer vicomte we encourage those who can provide relevant information who can identify offenders from the photos to contact us so the suspects or investigators. then myself and the t.v. crew saw it was happening but close that piece of protest it's time for the moment it's a chance in a way that on sci fi she's the build of on sci fi a chance going on all under the watchful eye if we move the camera over here over
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the watchful eye of a lot of police officers i think. this all comes as the german cops of facing an investigation into whether they used excessive force in hamburg allegations are they used military weapons that aren't allowed in domestic policing the fighting between police and demonstrators this summer in hamburg was hardly the best advertisement for germany but it does seem that some of those battles are continuing to be for peter all over r.t. we spoke with martin bolter a member of hamburg's parliament who believes both sides are using tactics that
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will only make matters worse. if you put pictures of demonstrators in the internet which can be used by everyone it's not a way to soften the conflict and it's not a way to soften conflict as well to put the pictures of policeman india internet the only way is to talk and not to try to criminalize either all demonstrators because indeed. the chief of police and the prosecutors and part of the politicians as well everyone who protested in g twenty has been nearly like a criminal and we can see at the g twenty there was a very escalated police policing strategy that was the problem then there was the. chief of police who is well known for his militaristic view on demonstration and that he's not able to do deescalate of police work in this conflict abuse
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basic human rights and a law that doesn't lead into nothing but into costs. so who has the right to fish in the u.k. if you go by this sign in a lake in oxfordshire nobody from eastern european countries and particularly poland can indulge in the sport and that has outraged one polish who is now trying to take legal action rather asked the owners to remove the sign and we understand their request was ignored also are not responded to a letter from the equality and human rights commission either mr claims he's had no support from local authorities. the sign is actually been reported to me by. and because of a project i'm running for the last seven years which is at the patient and integration to eastern european migrants they decided to. ask me for help i followed the route of the went to the police police told me it is nothing to do with then i've appealed and appealed has been upheld so it means they did
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everything in their power to you know to deal with. in the human rights commission they keep saying that they only advisory body so they do. you know i for exactly like many other people that discrimination resign we're going to be able to go to the police and the sign is going to be taken unfortunately. and we have to. also try to get a comment from the fishery however an answer machine says the farm is currently closed. now launched what he called a crowd pain to fund legal action we understand he's already raised more than eight thousand pounds quite positively actually positively surprised. you know a lot of positive comments about. me to me and you know to fight to get this removed if they want to. they more than happy to do so because
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he's a private. specific group of people to do and refuse your services to me because he was born. this is not how. this is even. russia fake news channel have been up yet again for discussion this time of the u.k. parliamentary committee hearing that the session didn't go off without a couple of. i'm not on twitter because life's too short it's the same you're not used to say we just would like to offer to alter the point of view of the connection because he's holed up in the furnace wouldn't see. it whether it was him as well at the door but we need to research the. issue of the meeting was widely focused on russia's alleged meddling of this time in the capital referendum however when questions were raised about little was said to back off the
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claim around is your reverence the russian government is seeking to interfere with the outcome of the referendum in catalonia. i don't have evidence i think i get the picture basically what you're saying is that the evidence that you collect around the referendum doesn't show a great deal of the impact that consortium baldwin because that we have we have no no specific. this is that is that is that we don't know well of us hearings on russia having been all that fruitful themselves following a very similar play. for me now turn to russia russia to feel russia's blatant interference in russian affiliated actors they were unusually loud disappeared to spend their democracy and intelligence services were responsible for the hacking and leaking of information these outlets are t unsplit may made their effort to have a say in effect creating propaganda any have said this is actually the crime of the
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century focus that we have we have no no especially if you give it up says a new. study says we don't know do you believe that any of your companies have identified the full scope of russian active measures on your platform center our investigation continues so i would have to say no certainly not with certainty. it's good to have you with us today so austria found itself embroiled in a row with its author and offered a grandpa sports to german speaking people in a region that the move has not gone down well with officials in rome and has revived the old hostilities. south to roll a stunning mountainous region on the border between italy and austria with the wholesome million residents of the area was part of the australian garion empire the full forty hundred tally and controlled around a century ago. the region has two official languages italian and german puts the
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last twenty m. census reveals almost two thirds of german speaking. now the right wing freedom party a member of both through his new ruling coalition is fanning the flames offering austrian passports to south to really address. the people both their old will be able to apply for bathrooms citizenship from two thousand and eight seem. at least in. blasting the proposal was legal nationalism the sensible move crazy idea and shameful affront. most christians lays trying to ease the route but is it already too late. some in south to rule. we've always defended the request of the double citizenship because for us it's very important as a link with our austrian model and some time ago a protest was held at the branch border crossing with people from the region
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demanding jewel citizenship italian journalist. says the new australian government is simply fulfilling campaign promises. move hossam government is a necessity we should use was to visit a some of the promises that they've got your degree in the my profession is the easiest to promise through these other woes to make these various become critical to the. losses be the minority you know that he truly is a part of the further disease that all suddenly new citizens and be good citizens they are both a member of the european union which you do there are people rights and the basket which is very simple so there is no real interest of leaving the cauldron than to see the sheep and thinking of the more since he does it should be good news for you not she just got through some of this to himself and these completely lucid enough
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for the feeling by the media circus these musical people were going to use a reason to the way to say to this support this we are consistent and we do what we have promised you complain about the snow it's reviewed benes of p.g. commitments and the b.b.c. news might according to me is not really wise as we're all still many stories coming your way on the program today here on artsy including the potential future of cattle independence it could face a major milestone inside twenty four hours when a regional elections will be staged by backing up. and what politicians do it will shock to them. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so if you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be rich. what's it like to be for us to see what the full spectrum of all can be
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thanks for joining us here on. the u.s. is prepared to force north korea to abandon its nuclear weapons that's according to the president's national security adviser. stated that while washington would prefer a diplomatic solution to the crisis it is not committed to peace we have to be prepared if necessary to compel the denuclearization of north korea were not committed to a peace work remitted to a resolution of the u.s. carries out joint drills with south korea. which will host the upcoming winter olympics more than four hundred marines are taking part in the three week long exercises. engaging in battles wrestling in the snow the troops even paid tribute to the games by skiing right there with his official logo in an effort to reduce tensions though the south korean leader said he would be willing to reach other military drills early next year however the u.s.
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secretary of state said that there are no plans to reach any military drills in the region. but a kid to keep it is possible for south korea and the u.s. to review the possibility of postponing the exercises and i have made such a suggestion to the u.s. and the u.s. is currently reviewing all of these exercises have been ongoing for many years but they are carried out on a schedule basis we announce them in advance there's no nothing surprising about them and i'm aware of no i'm not aware of any plans to change what is scheduled last week the u.s. secretary of state said his country is prepared to hold crisis talks with north korea when it's ready though he later added that pyongyang must first quote and its way back to the table we heard from political commentator steve malzberg about the mixed messages washington doesn't appear to be sending. well i think you know tillerson has play good cop bad cop he's always been the good cop in this scenario
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and you know whether it's with donald trump or with mcmaster tillerson has always been the one to say you know let's talk we're willing to sit down and then trouble so no we're not and what are you saying and why just say it it's a game to an extent maybe to try to show the president of north korea that. you know we could act both ways we could be willing to sit down with you but if you don't take my offer and and do what's in the best interests of peace i've got guys surrounding me here who are willing to go the other direction and you better know that. north korea has also managed to retain its place on the list of top threats to america this in donald trump's newest national security plan document is meant to reflect his foreign policy priorities however not all of its parts fully translate into the words of the president as american explains well president unveiled his national security strategy and it has some pretty impressive goals america is coming back and america is coming back strong with every decision and
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every action we are now putting america first so the main idea of trumps doctrine strengthening america for the sake of its citizens and if our life but that wasn't it he even listed a couple of washington's most dangerous enemies who apparently seek to undermine american interests and who may that be well russia and china forced just goes to show that over half a century has passed and america's enemies haven't changed but what's their crime in two thousand and seventeen. china and russia challenge american power influence and interests attempting to erode american security and prosperity. well clearly russia wasn't very impressed with the cheater imperialistic spirit to the documents and i'm willingness to let go of the uni polar world in fact the persistent rejection of a multi-polar world now china wasn't too happy to be listed as one of trump's enemies either ask the us to stop with this quote cold war rhetoric. we urge the
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us to stop deliberately distorting china and spurn our dated ideas such as a cold war mentality and coalition game otherwise it will hurt others and destroy itself the united states needs i mean me to put it more nicely strategic competitors they are need for the united states to to remaining and to and to be able to muster enough results to maintain their need i think china and russia understand this and this is also well recognized by many americans but what's interesting is that from stockton accuse russia and china of trying to challenge american hegemony but at the same time asked for their help to contain north korea and what's even more confusing is that trump speech was fairly muted compared to what was in the official white house document. we also face rival powers russia and china that seek to challenge american influence values and world
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. we will attempt to build a great partnership with those and other countries but in a manner that always protects our national interest. russia and china determined to make economies less free and less to grow their militaries and to control information and data to repress this is science he's an expert on their influence but has he read the whole document i can't say that he's read every line in every word he certainly had the document the attire for throughout throughout the process so the national security strategy might seem worrisome to a few but it's not very different from past administrations and what's unique about this particular situation is that the world now has to figure out whether to believe the official government line or from styrene. samir khan r. t. washington d.c. we spoke with the vice chair of the u.s. libertarian party often he believes trump's words often contradict his actions so
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he's saying one thing when he is on t.v. to get applause and he's writing something different this continuing of trade isolation we're seeing under trial we're seeing a continuation of all these backwards military policies that's the actual policy like many politicians like any great actor trumpets playing pretend with us he's lying he is simply saying that yeah we're going to bring the troops home but he hasn't done it we're going to stop being involved in four wars but he hasn't done it we're going to start actually spreading american values through trade but he hasn't done it in fact what he has written is the opposite he has written down something that says yeah we're going to keep on isolating ourselves we're going to stop the spread of american values and that's exactly what we don't want we want to see an end to trade sanctions so that american values spread we want to see an end to foreign wars so we can stop creating enemies and also we want to see an end to this spending that those four wars involve so that we can reduce our personal
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income taxes that's what we want. but that is not what we're getting here. the potential future dependents will face a major milestone in twenty four hours when regional elections are held it's not clear if any pro-war independence party will gain a majority the elections were told by the spanish prime minister on october the twenty. followed a declaration of independence by the parliament and the move prompted madrid to dissolve the region's government and impose direct rule under spanish law no polls can be published a week before voting day all over the house and stopped one polling company from coming up with its own creative.
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that the because of the public by file for the most important news today. while i'm off after cousin's house i think you are not cool enough and must fight their product. all the hawks that we along with all the watching. i magine returned they were going underground as you have president ronald trump is today should be able to give his last press conference of the year mired in russian conspiracy allegations to destroy the usa of course he might give another speech from florida before the year is up and we'll no doubt be tweeting coming over the show what happened to the rohingya crisis and why is it disappeared from the
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headlines we ask the u.n. high commission for refugees whether those desperately dying or seeking help i merely portions of the u.k. backed geopolitical nato power game and two years since the last deep coal mine in britain shut down we speak to someone who has fought for the miners in the world working class is all his life former u.k. labor m.p. and a host of martinis like george galloway about his new audiobook street fighting a memoir of the one nine hundred seventy s. loss from this week's news of flip flop on gay rights in the philippines and lifting the lid on the white helmets in syria all the more coming up in today's going underground but first i'm joined by matthew saltmarsh of the un refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. in what has been another devastating year for tens of millions displaced by poverty and war matthew thanks for going on what evidence did you give parliament in the past few days about your visit to myanmar well we spoke to paula about the
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situation the humanitarian situation in bangladesh at the moment where of course the range of refugees have fled over half a million six hundred fifty and if you couldn't get in to me and presumably well we have staff in myanmar but there are neighborhoods who actually go out and do you can monitoring work at the moment so they're confined to their offices and prevented by the military government correct but of course the humanitarian effort is very much focused on the coxes bazaar region of bangladesh. and it's there that ourselves and other u.n. agencies are really coming together and trying to help these this huge number of refugees who have been driven over the border by persecution and what scale are we talking early with a little bit well the total number we believe is six hundred fifty thousand but that's in addition to several hundred thousand who were already there and displaced so in total about a million ringgit refugees are on that side the bangladeshi side of the border and there's.
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