because. there are concerns social media platforms are policing what's acceptable to say and think of the numerous accounts belonging to libertarian and conservative figures were banned over alleged hate speech. takes a look at what's now considered a violation of tech shots policies. what matters are all of the stories we hear from all of you about the impact your connections have had on your lives you can choose from an infinite range of topics that interest you and then easily follow that topic in the news countries and cultures that got together like yesterday. that was the online world as we used to know it all fluids to any of those pesky folks trying to set limits and two thousand and eighteen you'll be told to hold up if twitter decides there are spots of your world that shouldn't be discovered what

if you're keen to know what someone has to say let it be former u.s. diplomat peter van buren you might as well unfollowing your interests the man's profile is shut down for good because he jokingly wish someone had eaten the face of his opponent in a twitter rant honestly that's by far not the most offensive thing you can find online but what's abusive about showing mr van buren some support to users who did so got bands to it's not about me it's not about the group of us who have band together i think it's a bigger issue and it's an issue that's that's raised his head this week people like us who are not part of the legacy media we're not new york times shapers of opinion we're also allowed to have our say so if someone from the new york times or the washington post put something up that we know is false we can refute it almost in real time that's very threatening i think for the powers that be this tendency to want to shut people down if they disagree with you is very dangerous it's going

down a very slippery slippery slope toward totalitarianism there's a word for that see and ask. well someone saw it coming when even perhaps the most controversial online talking had alex jones was told get out of here by all major platforms after all they all have to stick to their own rules. and keep people safe from hate speech but then even those anti-left who come to hate jones went on alert could be because they thought someone would click on their profiles and see a hold up pop up alex jones a bad guy but the problem is that once you start saying that hate speech is a rationale for banning people from social media you get in some very very big territory. i'm no fan of jones some other things he has a habit of repeatedly slandering my dad by falsely and absurdly accusing him of killing j.f.k. but who the hell made facebook the arbiter of political speech free speech includes

views you disagree with but there's no turning back when it comes to the online censorship evolution so i'm not sure it works like that anymore mr cruz plus people on the left are ecstatic bring it on is their call and if it is even a crucial step forward in the fight against fake news and fringe extremism. info wars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies the uses sites like facebook can use you to tear a nation of poets these companies must do more than take down one website the survival of our democracy depends on it the world is getting older and a bit more author a tarion only lately a top u.s. intelligence committee democrat has come up with twenty legislative proposals for keeping online platforms under a close watch brace yourself as you might soon have to say goodbye to things like

anonymous posts or accounts that can't be tracked down yep that covers just two of the twenty. despite closing numerous accounts twitter is the only major platform that is not blocked alex jones who as i mentioned was banned by a host of social media giants this is that the twitter been criticized for being too tolerant in response to what a c.e.o. tweeted that jones had violated any of the platforms rules of pro trump activists are coming up with some creative ways of showing their support in the face of russia collusion claims one of them designed with a t. shirt that sent the media into a tailspin. thank

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god thank. you thank you i kind of the and saudi arabia are in the midst of a diplomatic feud the united states despite being kind of this closest ally is staying well clear of the scandal. we have had conversations with them about this as it pertains to canada but we would encourage both governments to work out their issues together reaction should be or what their response should be i respect the rights of individual countries to make their own decisions and speak for themselves . we're here with a man who's become a friend of my prime minister justin trudeau and there is no relationship quite like the friendship between kennedy and i did states the deep ties.

of the row erupted last week when a creditor condemned the arrest of two human rights activists in saudi arabia riyadh responded by expelling the canadian ambassador and also freezing but actual ties the u.s. has so far remain neutral the state department both sides to use the see through dispute. saudi arabia those showing no sign of backing down it's threatening to take additional measures against kind of the foreign affairs correspondent eric margolis believes washington is we're not then to support kind of this partly down to this slug of prime minister justin trudeau. the u.s. citizen has no interest or seasonal interest in getting involved in this spiel and you know it's very there's very little sympathy for canada in washington. antipathy dislike it's really must try to go in canada.

doesn't manage the american leftists like its father was so it's there is no american support but it's still unfortunate because the two countries are very well known its neighbors and most canadians would suspect the us should stick up for them. let's take a look now at a second in a series of reports on the fate of russian families who moved to syria to join islamic state parties but in a question of a travel to southern russia to talk to a woman sentenced to eight years in prison on terror charges after she followed her husband to the country. the clock is ticking on zagat uts current life sentenced to eight years behind bars for being part of an illegal armed group she won't actually go to jail until her

youngest child turns fourteen and she's only one right now less than twelve months ago her life was old very different i was twenty nine when i left i went to turkey first with my husband i never thought i would end up there. within seven months as a good that was living in syria and pregnant with her third child she said as her husband had been drawn to islam and a better life. he told me it was safe to go there he said it wasn't how it was being shown that was snowball me he said no war but the reality turned out to be fall morris than anything on t.v. they lived for two years in the city of topic which at the times was under eisel control than they moved to rocca and she spent every day living in fear. so even my girl knew she was only eight years old but she could tell the difference

what was coming and american her kids explain a fighter jet drone she could tell by the sound of it. where they hiding yes well they either went downstairs or just simply stayed at home i took them out into the hole and we laid on the floor so that any shrapnel wouldn't hit us zagat had struggles to share her story she tries to stay emotionally distant from the past speaks quietly rarely looking into the camera she says she wanted to return home right from the start i told my husband that i want to go back but i couldn't live but the moment i started talking about it we had fights he told me if you want to leave leave but i will not let you take the kids away. i knew he was able to do that he had that sort of character and i was afraid later on when they were living in iraq and her husband was killed in a drone strike leavings that he died all alone with three children i started looking for ways to get out but it's not that easy you can't just leave that place

it all has to be done in secret there are people that can sell you out trick i only talk to those who i knew well and one day i was told that there was this wrote that there was a way out. that claims she had no way dia the life she was leading would leave her on the wrong side of russia's anti terror laws. i stayed at home all the time i had my children i had no time for anything else i was at home taking care of my kids. she was one of the seven women and fourteen children brought back to russia in the autumn twenty seventeen as part of a companion organized by chechen officials to repaginate the families of men who went to fight with islam make terrorists. i am very grateful to everyone who helped launch this campaign to save many women and children. but while they were lucky to

escape from the war in syria upon arrival in grozny she was detained by police three months later she was convicted and sentenced for being part of an illegal armed group. and while the law she broke is designed to help thwarted terror attacks some people argue that family members of radicalized individuals should not be targeted. these people need rehabilitation they need to be close to their family members under the care of their mothers they're under huge dress and prison will not help them he will only meet them more harsh i believe it's wrong to put them behind bars for now thank you that leaves with her mother in dagestan she has to report. to the police every month can't leave the region it's difficult for both her and her brother to find work if they're on the official police list it means the group will have to get by on their mother's small salary as a post office worker despite all this. she's just happy to see her children.

i was literally suffering there because i was unable to provide food for my children he told me constantly mom we are hungry they were close. and now he's out of the country so let's go to the man you know around let's go to the seaside now we go everywhere don't now we go everywhere. mommy is hard and so my lovely hussein. was you. are eighty dagestan. it's been ten years now since the war between georgia and russia broke out after georgia attacked the autonomous region of south of setia back in two thousand and eight the russian army intervened after five days of violence and fourteen hundred civilians killed the agreement was finally reached russian troops remain in the region to this thing as peacekeepers the u.s. though sees things differently are position on the russian occupied georgia regions

. and also south ossetia is unwavering that remains unwavering today the regions are part of georgia they are not part of russia and the united states continues to support josh georgia's sovereignty its independence and also its territorial integrity despite western politicians blaming russia that you use a fact finding mission establish georgia was actually the one who initiated the conflict it also insists though that both sides did violate international law in a new documentary would recall the most tragic moments of the conflict here's a quick preview. i'm not trying. to. soften the gripe you got in this to pad. the story. with. mitchell so you go.

you know you're solution this is her little sister this is. closing. the sheikh she's all of. them. at. the last. thirty. plus you. should. eat but. you know that's good we're going to get an order to feel well this is a good thing you know i'm going to. hear the mainstream media they reported that russia started the conflict and said nothing about soccer surely opening fire on the night of the beginning of the olympics in

beijing a couple years after the war i believe that eventually other countries would learn to recognize that georgia was at fault in this war especially after the european commission came out and said that georgia started the war and i was very disappointed that they didn't. soon as the fighting broke out western media immediately jumped to their own conclusions as to who began. georgia's president says russia is attacking his country dropping bombs and moving tanks into georgian territory russia's attacks keep coming to surprise georgia saying it's withdrawn from self a city or the georgians can do nothing. moscow's actions illustrate its content to meet the condemnation and criticism. i want you to know who to blame for all of the un's east conflict and that said mr

saakashvili who started this morning and mr saakashvili who is going to show and tell cells and people who feel to be on the one day my dad stuart and i guess i would never tell you that unfortunately a commercial break will take us there in four seconds whether we do i do know that you do almost all want to hear step. is situated some twenty minutes drive from self a city and the russian troops us t. land is a city that not crossing i mean history to border. russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev for the country's president at a time looking back at those events of two thousand and eight he says that they could have been prevented. players i'm just going to put his name valuate these events in the same way that i did before they would have been no war if second israelis actions not be so irresponsible immoral and criminal because when it was

not inevitable it was clearly a choice made by cyclist really and his aides goal was to push georgian soldiers back prince involved so as to restore order and prevent a further escalation of the conflict it was not to destroy georgia or execute sacrifice really so and i think i was right in trying not to rush home because that gave us the chance to calm the situation in georgia and set here and hise here and also to engage in calm dialogue with other countries and the european union and we spoke to one woman who survived those horrors ten years ago she shared her memories of what she went through. that we went to a neighbor's house where there were fourteen people and when the shelling started the house was have a damaged and the kitchen caught fire during pools in the fighting i decided to go to my parents' house but on my way i was captured a man called gear took me away to execute me he put

a knife to my throat he said had to kill me but god saved me. from it even myself it's good bye for now join us at five am moscow time for the latest global news updates. i. we have no idea what he's doing on vacation but she will be back in september.

i'm after a chance and we're going underground twenty four hours ahead of controversial u.k. government security contractor g four s. announcing profits bolstered by lucrative contracts from the ministry of justice currently facing unprecedented strike action from the cleaning staff coming up in the show strike action in london unarguable kidnapping of a u.k. doctor on the high seas and this week's pay roll this and more coming up in today's going underground but first was u.s. back to colombia as venezuela alleges behind an attempted assassination over the weekend i do you know not a good production economy in that sense the. british newspapers like the guardian appeared to question whether it was some kind of hoax but then outlets like channel four news in the state mandated b.b.c.

have continued to promote regime change in venezuela or arguably where internationally monitored elections recently secured victory for president but during his donald trump secretary of state when he was his boss at the cia anytime you have a country as large and with the economic capacity of a country like venezuela america has a deep interest in making sure that it is stable as democratic as possible and so we're working hard to do that i am always careful when we talk about south and central america and the cia there's a lot of stories. could that media laughter at the aspen security summit really be referring to cia interference in the americas that even included backing for groups linked to the assassination of a soon to be saint archbishop ranariddh with celebrating mass in the chapel of the hospital of divine providence where he lived he must have noticed drawing up at the door of the church a marksman came out. of the car and took aim and fired directly at

the archbishop the defacto cia backed killing of el salvador's archbishop romero is just one instance among many in the americas that can be traced to washington today though there is no proof of a direct link between the trumpet ministration and what appeared to be a weekend drone assassination attempt on president maduro in fact u.s. customs data between february and june shows an increase in venezuelan oil exports to the usa a forty three percent it's clear what washington wants i want to be careful what i say but suffice that we we are very hopeful that there can be a transition in venezuela and we the cia is doing its best to understand the dynamic there so that we can communicate to our state department and to others the colombians i was just down in mexico city and in bogota week before last talking about this very issue trying to help them understand the things they might do so that they can get a better outcome for their part of the world and our part of the world if donald

trump's now secretary of state wasn't directly contravening the u.n. charter there the u.k. government not only appears to support the pompei or narrative he uses it to taint the labor leader jeremy corbyn with the oil rich media maligned nation oh venezuela iraq general general in the leader of the opposition asked me what planet i was on and what we all know what planet in his shadow chancellor on this planet venezuela of course theresa may and her supporters that learn the blairite rump of the labor party do not only take jeremy corbin for his opposition to nato a nation backed regime change they taint him by his support of international law when it comes to palestine while u.k. media was arguably trying to triangulate corbin's opposition to israeli policies with anti semitism a freedom flotilla trying to break israel's illegal siege of gaza to deliver humanitarian supplies one of those on the flotilla his doctor the first ever female to be to control my consultant surgeon to be appointed it's a bottle of me and the royal london hospitals she joins me now doctors we welcome to. going underground real world in britain jeremy cool beans allegedly semitism

has been these are the go to freedom flotilla and you are all of the freedom flotilla a little ball what's yours or in this case a fishing boat sailing into gaza as you know gaza has been under military blockade sealing it off for about twelve years illegal under diversion yes and this blockade has resulted in the fishermen not being able to fish nets and not being able to go in and the people in gaza suffer the lot so we know what happened all the ship in international waters i understand moscow and boarded the ship europe yes on the twenty ninth of july at about twelve thirty one we received a telephone call from the number accusing us of violating israeli water but we know we did not because we were in international waters so all the person that was driving the boat say no we are in international water and we have the

right of innocent passage we are not hating for israel at all we've got no business with israel and it went on for a while and their son the israeli warships three of them with lots of soldiers on it and they're fired so it is aiming for all our bolt and then the body at the lower deck and came out and threw everybody into the back of the upper deck and then went straight for the wheel house where the stop the engine broke into the wheel house took down the flag and trample on the norwegian flag and then they couldn't start the engine again so they beat up the captain to force him to start the engine but i would die and i would return i want to remind your audience that this is a seventieth year of the president not by not by mr catastrophe i would on these return to character was being beaten or being beaten is not the ball that i would as it were the israeli ambassador to london or during the israelis or the ship was about. without incident. that the captain that you're saying was being disobeyed is

really orders to stop sailing to goes they beat up the captain to stop the boat so that they can hijack the boat to asheville which is really part the kept actually couldn't stop the boat because our guys are all the region fishing boat the only way to restart it is to engineer to go down into the engine room and started manually the engineer is seventy years old and he refused to do it so they brought the captain down and hit him really hot in front of. engineer and when the engineers saw the captain going in white and pale he gave up and saw that the bull and then the israelis took over the steering and drove straight. to all and took us please then we. will go to kidnapping because somewhere in jail the juicy zip codes are being used because i am the doctor so what happened was that they tasered you

see we spend two days learning how to be nonviolent when we attack so they brought to all our civil defense the people holding the hand to block the soldiers and it is just the people are going through them and that history ofter true as an artist but it's got a certain including one of them who stays in the neck and head and they were tight with. plastic carts and really tight and one of them i said a police cut this i'm a doctor he's going to get gangrene very soon if you continue that. finally after about half an hour for the my five minutes it did they didn't injure you though they did just push me around that's ok i'm small enough so you push me out for this all i saw reports of racism. yes because you know they would believe the british british don't look like that even in prison you know when finally we we were taken to a closed military zone where with strip search multiple times that all our belongings

taken away from out including our medicines and everything and finally put in prison and the prison wardens just wouldn't call me by my name the economy china and these china come here china i'm not talking to you you shut up i'm talking to her you know like that so finally when the british consul came and he said you're all england i say well you can call that you know ok from then on they call me england and the treatment became a little bit better so that's the way they you got your clothes but no no no no no my my luggage was cut open they took everything they took my tool mobile phones like camera they took all my clothes i don't know what they wanted my clothes were british authorities they're debilitating it was they can do anything. the britain's closest allies in the middle east i don't know so that i have an empty suitcase they took all the medicine in my suitcase because in fact these medicines are for the participants we have a separate lot of donations mainly for gaza up the hill is going eighty eight i

don't know what happened to it but my personal medicine which i i have for the people on all n.t. my clothes were taken away i don't want to wear this black skirt this is a duplicate where the blouse is all gone but to be fair they left one t. shirt for me so that when i got my suit i got a second t. shirt because that has got three guards on it so they left it and i got nothing so in prison i got the same t. shirt on for four days though you knew when you got on the boat that in a few years ago on the movie moamar terror activities were killed yes by israeli forces israel offered apology twenty million dollars compensation to turkey how could you go on this boat knowing that on previous trips others activists have been killed of cost as a element of fear but. all of us all went on the board know well that there is an element of real danger but i think our solidarity and our love for the palestinians

and our love for justice rises above our personal fear and that's what we are doing that would you flew think my family of course react to you know big time you know we have to nominate our next of kin when you go on like that and i know i cannot nominate either my sister my brother because when to receive better news i don't think i can do it so i nominated a gas our family to be my next of kin because for the palestinians who are constantly being persecuted being killed when they receive better news about me it might hurt them they might be so upset but they are strong people so day will be able to handle it and support my family so my next of kin actually palestinians from gaza people whom i love so much or are always waiting you know that the lady will not need to be my next of kin was born where her father was being tortured it's really prison. her father has been in prison four times and this time he refused to leave guards are even when the ramadan checked.