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for joining us here live on our teams a national with the latest global headlines i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program. now with syria teetering on the brink of a new round of conflicts another war of words has been playing out in diplomatic circles in the u.n. security council after three drafts resolutions over the alleged chemical attack in syria failed to win approval during the latest session. you know my parents always said you should always see the good in everyone. and you should always see the good in everything so i've been trying to figure out what the good is with russia. i

think they're very good at playing games. i'm not sure i know for sure that you are good at threatening yet again seek to compromise the the credibility of the international investigation unfortunately our merican partners and colleagues the real investigation this council least of all russia should not be calling the shots . from carrying out those plans regarding syria or your work and we are not able to support the text it would be like watching the fire and identifying that there's a fire and doing nothing to put it out. this resolution has not been a dog. but do hope that the mission for the facts reach syria and we'll be able to sort out these things within its mandate. the tensions have been building up over the reports of a chemical attack carried out of the town of do work reports came from the

controversial white helmets group russia's military and chemical experts searched the area but found no traces of by and substances the patients being treated for chemical poisoning were found in dumas hospitals either this is led russia to claim the reported chemical attack is fake and staged to call for investigators to immediately visit the area while washington calls for action. we are meeting with our military and everybody else. to make some major decision. do you think. we'll be learning you know pretty soon the u.s. is reportedly deploying an aircraft carrier to the middle east and europe was ships will replace another strike group which show recently completed its mission to the middle east moscow says any military action would have the most serious consequences overnight the e.u. organization for the safety of an avocation issued an alert and says all flights in

the mediterranean area within the next seventy two hours should exercise caution and planning russia's federal air transport agency also inform the countries airlines of possible dangers in the region with reports of the chemical attack only coming from a controversial source and no international experts having visited the alleged scene russia's resolution experts from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to immediately carry out on site investigations of all supposed tax contrary to washington's proposal russia also rejected the notion the o.p.c. w. should be tossed with attributing blame. so the bunny up there it's clear to us that they had already decided who's guilty no was blaming the syrian regime and russia with the wrong on the own so interested in and the best to get a sion and when the interested in an investigation would be so new when it's based on exclusive dates from the opposition social media three drafts were put forward

one from the united states one from russia and another from russia based on a swedish draft but at the end of the day none of them passed russia and united states vetoed each other's resolutions and the other one did not have a majority at this point there is not agreement within the body that leaves the united nations about how the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons will proceed to investigate the situation in duma. to go to the movies this vote is a litmus tests that tells us a lot and is very worrying we proposed a very innocent draft resolution which was substantially identical to the swedish one proposed yesterday it's not clear to us why they voted against it they simply should have said they were against it because it was russia's draft resolution you say we are good at playing games but i would say you are good at threatening and your threats to syria worry us a lot with nikki haley she took the floor representing the united states and she

urged countries around the world to vote against russia's resolution this is the logic behind her arguing that the resolution puts russia and the assad regime itself in the driver's seat for making arrangements for the fact finding mission investigators were just supposed to trust with the same government. who says everything about the duma attack was fake will work in good faith with the o.p.c. down under the un rules the syrian arab republic had a right to address the security council because the resolutions that were proposed pertained to them so syria took to the floor and it basically said they did not want what the united states did in iraq and libya to be repeated in syria and they did not want syria to be reduced to chaos and a stable government to fall under false pretenses well despite the obvious tension

between the russian and american envoys before the meeting they still exchanged a friendly hug and kiss they spoke for a while just getting the bends is seemingly unwilling to let nikki haley go to shut and it with a handshake. i would hope they'll be some clarity on the situation later this week when a fact finding mission arrives in syria according to the un's chemical watchdog until now the u.s. isn't even sure which chemical agent could have been used now we do know that some sort of a substance was used a chemical was use we're just not sure at this point today exactly what was with used this has nothing to do with the alleged use of chemical weapons this has everything to do with a geo political agenda that wants to put the iranians in a box wants to confront the russians in syria that is really upset over the thought that the effort that's been going on for seven years by western powers that are

local friends like the like saudi arabia has failed and that the assad government will remain in power they've been seeking a pretext to try to change that so this really has nothing to do with the truth or falsehood of the allegations about duma. the french president has also been lashing out at russia or accusing it of obstructing the investigation it's a view not shared by all politicians in his country that everyone knows perfectly that in wartime the first victim is truth what happens on the ground is almost unknown to us the chemical attack which evidently took place is abominable we must condemn it but we still have to find out who committed it so it sounds a lot like an excuse for the united states of america and their allies to get back in the game and to engage in an armed conflict i think that currently france is contributing to the creation of the we creation of a certain form of the cold war with russia and it's pointless because it doesn't benefit france or its economy or international relations the u.s.

seeking to stir up a conflict with russia marcus around well during tuesday's security council meeting at the u.s. ambassador nikki haley proclaimed russia's hands are covered in the blood of syrian children she added that shaming russia with pictures of those kids hasn't worked or to see the patrol go takes a look at the pictures of children the u.s. envoy chose not to show to shame the russians all the u.s. officials think they have to do is say one word kids who were recently seen who threw arms are all covered in the blood of syrian children not being. by pick through their hoops victims. for you see mrs haley said it out loud they're used to telling the world about kids russia's friends killed with the latest chemical attack call like always the american media were there to spread the word these images are so disturbing the children the families in such distress what

you see around their mouth has to be thrown that's a sign of a chemical attack hundred thick images of syrian children fighting for us accusing russian and syrian president assad ruined children's lives thousands of graves that weren't meant to be dug so early stories from war ravaged parts of the middle east will make you cry and all of them must be told but i can't help asking why for u.s. officials or journalists these agonizing stories from mosul iraq or rocca in syria don't exist. no on some channels you'll never see their stories maybe because there are scars or how america's top military man puts it a fact of life civilian casualties are

a fact of life civilians will get caught in the crossfire civilians will get hurt civilians will get killed if you want to liberate your towns and cities it comes at a price the responsibility for civilian casualties in iraq and syria lies with isis that is on them not on us we are the good guys and munitions people on a battlefield know the difference kids lives in another arab country yemen have turned into a disaster that's a fact so say humanitarian groups and it is a fact of life in a sense that washington is pretty much at hand when saudi arabia is bombing civilly . across the border the saudis have spent billions on what sam has to offer and donald trump loves selling guns to riyadh in terms of dollars three video and five hundred thirty three million dollars five hundred twenty five million dollars in

a review. besides in case someone forgot the americans themselves have for years been taken away innocent lives in afghanistan must have when the explosions happened i was with my uncle and cousins american soldiers opened fire and a bullet flew by my face then you would you say this is my younger brother. he was killed by u.s. troops this is my brother shot of fats also killed and this is my father's did google he was killed as well i want the government to avenge my father and kill his killers arresting reason or who are all covered in the blood and theory and still going on not being seen by pictures of its victims. before i million put franko in moscow. meanwhile britain's former prime minister tony blair says his country should get involved in syria claims the u.k. should back a u.s. intervention against the masochists in the wake of the alleged chemical attack the

man who joined forces with washington to invade iraq in two thousand and three says britain has no choice but to back. this would be action in support of of military and intervention by the the us if you don't respond to this too to the use of chemical weapons against civilians then obviously you know we're ignoring what the international community has said which is that this is unacceptable than those that use such measures methods should be held to account even if we take the action which i think we all have to do. it doesn't solve the longer term question of what happens in syria. i gave the order for british forces to take part in military action in iraq my judgment as prime minister is that this threat is real growing and of an entirely different nature to any conventional threat to our security that britain has faced before. the program in the form that we thought it was did not exist in the way that we thought so i could apologize for that i could also

apologized by the way for some of the mistakes in planning and certainly our mistaken in our understanding of what would happen once you remove the regime. for all of this i express more. sorrow regret and apology that you may have no. well complete. just to remind you to your rock inquiry known as the chilcot report was published back in twenty sixteen covered mistakes in the u.k.'s six year long campaign in iraq it revealed there was no imminent threat to the u.k. from saddam hussein it also highlighted that blows certainty iraq was not quality weapons of mass destruction including chemical and biological agents was unjustified military analyst believes blair is now just following the western line on syria this is all about playing to the gallery this is all about headlines

twitter and media this is not about syria what's good for syria as far as the u.s. france and u.k. goes it's making themselves feel good and patting themselves on the back so really this is a tried and tested formula of the last seven years the west make their mind up even before a minute has passed for any action on the ground and in this case the americans the europeans and the british have always wanted to be the judge jury and executioner and you can't do that any crime that's committed you you need to look at the evidence but if no one wants to look at the evidence then they want to look the other way. facebook's boss has grilled by the senate over election meddling data breaches we'll have the full story just after a short break. the drive towards war against syria is unmistakable the pretext is still with another alleged chemical attack as usual no evidence is presented as usual conclusions are

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welcome back to our to international us social media sensations diamond and so say facebook still hasn't formed on why it's suddenly restricted their viral page and playing without explanation the social media giant by notifications to their millions of subscribers and then claim the content was unsafe for clarifying that it was because of inappropriate behavior we have communicated directly with diamond and fuk about this issue the message they received last week was inaccurate and not reflective of the way we communicate with our community and the people who run pages on our platform we have provided them with information about our policies and the tools that will ripley people to their page and look forward to the opportunity to speak with them. well you became a web sensation for their commentary on the twenty sixteen u.s.

presidential election it's not the first time though they've been blocked online due to demilitarize almost all of their content a year ago we spoke to the g.a.o. who accuse facebook of discrimination i didn't understand it and when he said that our cottage and our brand is unsafe to the community our brand is that i'm innocent guy i'm in the circus to black chicks that's down with politics right now you have that we are conservative we love our country we love our president ok so when i said that i was offended by it we with our part by it we look at this has been censorship discrimination defamation of character and even a violation of our civil rights to black women as if we are some type of animal or limbs are somebody just out there just get out and say that is appalling to me your face book is going to have to answer to that why what was the reason because we don't know that's right and we can appeal that they said that we cannot appeal that

and this was final but it's because a very huge entity ok it is an entity that people from around the world joint base work so we don't want to get into this here our are lying where you have one person dictating what people can see and what people can hear right on this platform when a star has millions our round the world not just in the united states but millions around the world because that's where it gets dangerous that's right do not drive or silence people really speech that's where i stand is that you got to be balanced and we know that they want to say that they are private entity but you are open to the public eye when you are open to the public you cannot discriminate. five hours of from each at facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg faced as he answered questions from the very sentences he previously donated money to the community program on personal data misuse russian

ties to the u.s. presidential election some recalled was that she's got the latest mark zuckerberg is testifying before congress over a three day period addressing claims that they weren't analytic they used facebook to obtain its users' data which was apparently used to influence the u.s. election but what was unusual about this particular hearing is that there was one witness testifying before nearly half of the senate and there was a lot of chatter up to the hearing but it looks like it didn't live up to expectations now zucker berger apologized several times prior to the hearing and he also issued an apology during his opening statement we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry i started facebook i run it and i'm responsible for what happens here and one would expect that the senate would grill him with a number of tough questions but that didn't happen either over the past decade

senators from both committees received donations from facebook and that includes the current election cycle were these people have eighty seven million people users concentrated in certain states are you able to figure out where they're from do you think we need consistent privacy protections for consumers across the. internet ecosystem have you heard of total information awareness you know i'm talking about you know i do not ok this is what is facebook doing to prevent foreign actors from interfering in u.s. elections as we discussed in my office yesterday. the line between legitimate political discourse and hate speech can sometimes be hard to identify and can you discuss what steps that facebook currently takes when making these evaluations would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night.

no. i think you're genuine i got the. conversing with you you want to do the right thing you want to enact reforms and that's according to the center for responsive politics so that could explain why they don't go after facebook we also saw some discussion of russia during the meeting but that didn't go so well these. i'm verified divisive pages on facebook today it looks a lot like his group to russian agent you. just wrote propaganda during the troy's sixteen election. hebrew confirm a russian green group yes or no. senator are you asking about those specifically is i am not familiar with there is a piece of content specifically and despite the hearing facebook shares actually went up so people are taking this seriously or they approve of the ways dr burke is

handling it and zuckerberg also revealed that he is cooperating with the muller investigation on russia but besides that no stunning revelations so called russian bought a significant part of the ongoing investigation into alleged meddling in the us election which has just mentioned that those same books also seem to be behind many news headlines in america lately as a new south explains the media's increasingly branding any opinion it doesn't like russian. everyone seems to love a good russian story shadowy russian troll farm used a number of fake accounts russian bards attempted to use this tragedy to russia when bots are hyping terms like russian linked trolls are at it again trying to sow discord in america votes are apparently to blame for trending hashtags or pro-gun campaigns after shooting the candidate so close so that when you find the site one source in particular for all that bought information how multan sixty eight.

the snag is how milton sixty eight doesn't specialize in trucking quite russian both it's a recent change in say that monitors are around six hundred accounts they simply believe may be linked to russian operations regardless of what even means we don't track bots we've tried to make this point clear in all our published reporting yet most of the third party reporting on the dashboard continues to appear with some variation of the headline russian bots are pushing x. this is inherently inaccurate said the mole hamilton sixty eight admits they suppose it russian into counts on seoul even based where people might seem they are not all in russia we don't even think they're all commanded in russia at all we think some of them are legitimately passionate people that are just really into

promoting russia one news outlet with that red faced retracted its russian claims and was forced to clarify what kind of accounts the group actually tracks but most media simply ignores the facts and runs with that conspiracy theory but who can blame the mainstream media off to rule russian bolt sounds so much more menacing then the account of just quote someone who really likes russia it's the worst journalism it's criminal journalism there is such a thing the journalist to. this dashboards that there's a twenty eight hundred per cent increase in and i paraphrase laura ingram references based upon box m.a.d. atlee upon which the dashboard company said no this is merely to tax changes in reference or in in reference to the particular name and that can be misleading you could have a six thousand percent increase and have four tweets or five tweets from nothing

that's number one and number two it said there's no way to determine if these are russian by us which is the absence the gravamen of the story. adeline's this all for myself and the team see you in the hall for an hour for the latest global headline updates. pranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars

a year truck so i chose to grow truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployed rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here anymore just slow down so much they lost jobs got laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal. with . if there's strong pressure find a security cap and that's by the pentagon and by the media on don't donald trump to do something about c.b.s. probably at some stage she might give in to this pressure but i don't think it is

his intention what i consider more likely down another u.s. military attack on syria is that the united states policy feel deep to reckon any effort by the russians to turks and iranians to find a political solution. greetings and salutations as the fears of war continue to rise and the activists and the warmongers lick their chops to prove just how right their side will prove to be i think the air could use a little good news for

a change and the good news comes down from the great northern country of canada today or it was announced that candor morgan one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in all of north america has stopped yes they've stopped construction on the controversial trans mountain expansion pipeline in fact can the morgan chairman steve kane stated that the entire project could be scrapped after may thirty first of all the various legal challenges facing the expansion are not resolved yes all the water protectors activist environmentalist out there may actually finally be getting that much needed when a win that they deserve this news of course flies in the face of canadian prime minister and tiger beat politics dreamboat justin trudeau one monday boldly promised again that we are determined to see that pipeline built it is in the national interest you see justin has staked quite a bit of his own political fortunes on the completion of this pipeline after making big promises of bringing alberto oil to market in the west for greenpeace is

canada's greenpeace canada's mike who damon chimed in stating british colombians desire to protect clean water safeguard the environment and stand behind indigenous communities cannot be ignored or swept under the rug. i wish we could you know the same could be said for canada's neighbors to the south the good old u.s. of a we found out even more bad news about their much beloved keystone pipeline i'm sure you have heard of it according to trans canada the south dakota league back in november was actually much bigger than the five thousand barrels they told us that was the leak actually came in around nine thousand seven hundred barrels. you know what i think it's time to break out the milkshakes and straws so i can drink your milk shake and start watching the hawks.