zadok could have proudly said we're just a platform where independent and sorting out what you call fakes is none of our business but when wall street alarm bells are ringing you know how it can happen with the stocks it could be better to zip it and focus on an intense year. see if we stick to be the tough year began with. news feed algorithm the trick was to boost posts with let's say pics of your friends cat and sideline all that politics related media stuff haha they say this lead to less views likes and comments under donald trump's posts moved on facebook has evolved from policing offensive content to policing news views ideas it can be anything apart from your friend's cat if people flag them as potential hoaxes we send those to fact checkers and if those facts. that is provably false then we will

significantly reduce the distribution of that content but if you want to just get off our platform will look as a horn to some of this content can be i do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice eventually though the get off our platform way to sort things out still prevailed ok and now it's time to meet the fact checkers journalists have found them in a tiny room at these guys h.q. at the end of the day facebook's not at the end of the day facebook's not so happy with that online policeman's hat so zuck and co are outsourcing the digital share locks i'm being serious that's what they call themselves who are let me check where they come from. link to nato with their help thirty two suspicious pages have already been sorted out the big ship was not turned around overnight thanks well but i think that they have now given some opportunity to work with them

and i hope that in the months when we have at least three other platforms in that we will see. a willingness to collaborate with us to come up with a solution bravo and it's not just facebook who are doing just as great one question though since already most americans head to social media to get their news when will freedom of speech ring a bell one of the organizations which has links to the atlantic council has accused russia of being behind the recent killing of three of its journalists in the central african republic the investigation into what happened is still under way and we talked to and tony bryant logan a political commentator who told us that if you accuse rush or of anything you no longer need to back it up with any evidence. there's no evidence for this i don't think it isn't even really matter because russia seems to be public enemy when the global red scare go on and has been pushed by the american mainstream media it

feels like the only people they have the right to speak out are those who agree with the leftist principles if you are against lefties ideology any kind of way they find a way to demonize you they call you a conspiracy theories they say it is you're promoting fake news we're coming more under the control of be corporations and a lot of these people who are in the government and corporations are kind of working together to colluding with each other any kind of extra regulation from the federal government will most certainly impact freedom of speech online there's going to be a battle to try and corral the internet back and kind of maytree media staff format where you get your news curated for you and you don't have any kind of dissenting viewpoints. according to a new poll the reputation of news organizations is in decline and america the poll says almost a third of u.s. citizens think their president should have the power to close media outlets deemed

to be behaving badly. and to the streets of new york to get opinions on press freedom in the country. the american media just can't get over the anime of the people label first slapped onto it by donald trump a little while back anime of the people i think crosses a line i think it's reckless i respectfully ask that and this is a phrase that has a long historic provenance it goes back to the french revolution it goes back to stalin to mouth when the president attacks journalists we question his motivation at this point you could dismiss the comment simply as media oversensitivity or bias against donald trump however whether it's media partisanship or trump's behavior it seems pretty clear that public support for freedom of the press is stark now at this point less than half of americans say they believe the mainstream media is working hard to engage in honest reporting now what's more shocking is that twenty

six percent of americans more than a quarter say they believe that the president should have the authority to shut down any media outlet that isn't gauging in what they call bad behavior now it's not surprising that most of these media haters are republicans and it's no secret what outlets they want to shut down. do you think that's surprising to you do you think a lot of americans agree that the media outlets should be shut down i do i think those smart if you're smart and you have a good mindset where you see different things then you would know things like that obviously should be shut down especially if they're not telling the whole story that's a joke that's a joke once again this go back to page one of the poorest led to in appearing in those twenty six percent mean that you know the constitution i'll be broke me i don't think the pressure be closed down but it doesn't mean we have to read it or pay attention to it i just block it out. i don't really know what their definition

of bad behavior means if there is a clear definition of bad behavior i know maybe i'd agree with a. stephen moore of course if there are. some. that i don't agree with them and then maybe they should be looked at more in depth . in terms of shutting them down off the jerk reactions no i don't agree with it now seems that the first amendment is the first thing that many americans want to be amending. our see new york. the wiki leaks legal team has raised fresh can sign over the security of the whistleblowing site's founder julian assange of course that's after the us senate committee looking into alleged russian interference in the twenty six elections requested that i testify we can show you the letter that was sent to the ecuadorian embassy were holed up inviting him to a closed interview and says the meeting can take place at a mutually agreeable time and place but lawyers are extremely cautious as they do

what i came over as revelations is a recap of some of those. don't

be afraid to work any believe in a million of those who are. with you we can walk like a hostile intelligence work hard like a hot dog. we discussed this issue with our former m i five agent and emotional things of the us going after science for publishing classified information creates a dangerous precedent i'm sure that after seventy years mewed up in the ecuadorian embassy he wants to give his side of the story he does know exactly what happened he must be absolutely frustrated about the. there the lies and the misses being

created around russia gate so i can understand his temptation to give evidence even to a closed hearing which is difficult i mean the whole you know ethos of wiki leaks is to be open and transparent and to bring information out to the public's good so it's a difficult one for him i think but let's bear in mind as well that you know putting aside wherever this information came from wiki leaks is a publisher it is a high tech publisher but it's his publisher in the same way that the new york times the washington post and the guardian has been a publisher of similar stories so if they are going to go after him as a publisher of embarrassing information for the american government then surely they have to go after the old legacy media for publishing the very same information and this is what the old legacy media should be standing up and speaking out against and fighting against because if we keep these goes down because of these arguments then they are vulnerable to that is the end of our free media that's the

end of our free speech still to come here on the program on r t the us is refusing to back one of its closest allies canada in its diplomatic spat with saudi arabia and more than just about. i began this man show camera. roughly once they showed some leaves for them. uncool videos and so on with the roughly string that. line down more on string i don't roughly don't t.v. . i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty

five percent of global wealth he longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. if you join us today a gift back what you stole over one hundred years ago a tribe living on easter island one of the most isolated places on earth wants to negotiate there were a ton of a sacred statue of a taken by the british navy and presented as a gift to queen victoria at the statue ended up in the british museum where it's

currently on display he is honest to visitors to the museum if it should part with the radical. hosting an estimated eight million objects the british museum is one of the world's best known collections of art history and culture and often the subject a fiery debate about whether all chicks sourced during the british empire as colonial times should be returned to where they came from. the latest dispute ironically involves a statue called lost or stolen friend a fitting name to the indigenous people of easter island or trying to recover a unique figure taken one hundred fifty years ago and given to queen victoria who

then give to get to the museum this is reportedly being negotiated as we speak. the circumstances have changed and we heard that there's a possibility to discuss the stones are trying to chile with the museum and the british government the british museum attracts scores of tourists so it's not surprising the museum is putting up a fight claiming their better preserved under its own watch sometimes offering temporary loans as a compromise forward to the visitors think let's find out generally speaking i would think it should be returned i think it's a heritage says just of history i can see both sides of the argument i could see the argument for taking away but i can also see the argument for just played by guns be bygones i guess because it's all a kind we all kind of share the same history you ultimately rule interconnected we've got over this whole kind of colonialist british empire thing and stuff nice theory but it's rare and this museum is very well operated and very well known so i think like staying here you would be at infante church what do you think about

the people who say well the argument is that you know the original places where they come from those people need to. travel all the way here to be able to see some stuff that's you know sort of there is we took what they had in history and now we're now showcasing it but i think there there's also no i mean it's a here for people to come together and not to just see what they had in history but also what other countries have with people being able to see these things and maybe get them interested to maybe even go there to see them in person especially if you only have one here and there's how many that are just roaming around in the surrounding right. and saudi arabia are in the midst of a diplomatic feud and the united states despite being kind of as close as ally geographically speaking is staying out of it 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 and

speak for them so. we're here with a man who's become a friend of mine prime minister justin trudeau and there is no relationship quite like the friendship between canada united states the deep ties. with the raw erupted last week when kind of i condemned the arrest of two schuman rights activists in saudi arabia riyadh responded by expelling the canadian ambassador and freezing bilateral trade the u.s. has so far remained neutral by the state department simply urged both sides to use diplomacy to resolve the dispute however saudi arabia is showing no sign of backing down that is threatening to take additional measures for example it's poised to call back all students from canada back to saudi arabia. our foreign affairs

correspondent eric margolis believes washington's reluctance to support is partly down to trump's dislike of the prime minister. 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. the. antipathy dislike between was trying to go in canada and the. man the american left as well there was so. there is no american support but it's still unfortunate because the two countries are very limited to neighbors and most canadians would expect the u.s. should stick up for them. after announcing plans to change the constitution in order to strip white farmers off their land some south south african politicians are

looking for more black emancipation in the country and your party has made headlines after batting whites and foreigners from becoming members. picks up the story. after the death of nelson mandela there has been an increase in racial politics and incitement here in south africa and now as the country starts preparing for elections to be held at the beginning of next year one new party has emerged that's only for black people the muslim african congress says that its goal is to restore the ideals of african people it's gone as far as to say our membership is not open to anything that looks white this is a far cry from how mandela saw the rainbow nation i don't think it's what rainbow nation was intended to be. pretty again something like that that's racism because it's also hypocritical because in a sense what most parties are fighting for is unity in south africa i think is not fair because we as

a south african we must not in peru some which. i think we must be equal i don't think it's a good concept i don't think it's something that will work here and say i don't think it's ideal now. though going backwards obviously by just like that to share in our low them in south africa is excluding people and we in a country that talks about equality so i see that that might be a problem it's become popular in south africa particularly among the white community to talk about reverse racism in other words discrimination against white people whereas once people of color were denied jobs education and political power the tables have now turned and many whites complain of being overlooked because of black economic empowerment hunted sees a thing we can actually discount apart. and as we're asking congress for quite a small party and i doubt they'll get much support in the next elections but i do

think a party like that if is something should be more concerned with even though that an explicitly forbid watch people from people from joining their party there it trick does. an increase in racial tensions and they do seem to to a degree be scapegoating watts and indians for a lot of the problems that we do have in south africa international tensions on particular do you think there are increasing but this is because of favorite trick from parties like the if and even to a degree and that of the a.n.c. so i do think we aren't quite sweden also made a lot of luck just have been racking up the program just for this hour here on our international right now tony hawk past the hour here in moscow certainly a lot of headlines for you today we are back with. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to us

a little the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. one else seemed wrong but all wrong just don't call. me. yet to say proud these days become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. greetings and salutations. most professional anglers will tell you that there is an

art fishing and a big part of that art is patience and using the right kind of bait and while fishing is known the world over for sport and leisure apparently in the city of chicago the windy city and other communities around the united states local law enforcement has taken this remark to fishing and brought it to the streets in the form of what's being called baiting see baiting is where police or other law enforcement agency agencies will stage a car or truck filled with expensive goods to lure potential residents of a high crime or poor community to steal said car or goods so that they can then swoop in and make an arrest but now local communities thankfully are fighting back recently a series of videos posted online by community activist living in the chicago neighborhood of englewood went viral and they appear to feature a truck loaded with nike air force one sneakers and christian louboutin shoes

and box is reporting that according to local resident charles mckenzie of the crime prevention group god's guerrillas the truck was parked near a basketball court and traveled to other sites in the predominately black community on the city's southwest side seems to be confirmed by resident martin g. johnson who posted a video showing what appears to be the same semi truck and trailer at a different location the following day needless to say hawk watchers the civil liberty implications of what is essentially law enforcement across the country baiting citizens living in a poor depressed high crime neighborhoods into committing a crime is at the cli questionable to say the least while bordering heavily on entrapment. you know i think it's time we put a little sled in this fishing line and start watching the hawks. you. would know what a legal tree looks like

a real live it would be analyzed to the bottom if you. know what it looks like you know i got. this. big song. welcome aboard the what are the parts of the robot and on top of the law lets you go take the bait. you know i don't know what's worse the fact that it's so. there is so much like any parent. ray says i'm. in this fight and i'm putting and classism of putting here's some nike air and some you know bread bottom right is a bloody shoes they are not meant to replace they do have none of these to the fact they are literally waving shoes in front of porky. and when you want to run the

thing them for take i just think it's horn you watch the video you know it's all alleged but you see the cops like you know the time they get there with these videos you see the cops show up because they're like kind of sting is blown but they like can't admit but not that admit what's going on so you've got to watch these because they're absolutely incredible. but what comes to mind when you see it is entrapment that's the first thing you think legally like this can't be this is entrapment can't like set something out somebody walks by picks it up you know or you know because this is done in many different ways sometimes it's a car with keys in it like a really nice car i call bait cars bait cars and we just may be limited by the way yes it was you know and other gross it is it was literally like how long are the do you really show people just by the way my favorite episode i believe was on the t.v. shows where they had the surveillance in the trunk of a car and they broke into the car rather than taking the car they actually took the surveillance for the quick and you know you have that and then and the excuse is

always well it brings down and say you know it saves cars from being jacked like they have done that but that's the thing and entrapments the big deal because i think you and i would think that's entrapment that kept the legal definition of entrapment just we all know is the act of government agents or officers that you do says a person to commit a crime he or she is not previously disposed to commit however this is a law enforcement's bizarre argument that actually wins them court cases listen to this ok the entrapment defense is difficult elizabeth the joe writes in the harvard law review that in practice entrapment is a losing defense for most courts the conclusion that the defendant is criminally predisposed to commit the offense barzan. truculent claim even where the government's term taishan is maybe unrealistically attractive basically they're saying that you can't use entrapment in a city where you can probably a criminal because you're probably a criminal because you're in a poor neighborhood or whatever or if you have a history of after you have a criminal rap sheet which generally you don't see them putting bait cars in super

expensive parts of town you'll see they're in poor parts of town you don't see them loading truck loads of shoes up you know like over in beverly hills no or and what did you know the real spending real snazzy parts of shadows jumping off on fifth avenue i approach go here's some louis airport or whatever like you know one for commuters were guess what sorry i got to break it to you the police tend to go after poor people way more than they go after rich people you know well of course they're progressing on those areas but at the same time i'm like how many untested rape kits are in chicago how many open murder cases how many open assault cases how many open theft case says first citizens are waiting because these cops have to go out and taxpayer dollars to pay for the truck to shoot the whole thing i'm like oh it's a joke and the thing is it's like putting expensive things in there it's really like saying to the community it's like haha you don't get. one of the things i get really interesting as a community response community activist charles mckenzie had told box that there

were a lot of young guys playing basketball why would they do that in the chorus community is to people who don't have anything better how do how are we supposed to trust the police if they if they're setting up like this how can we trust them that's it you're trying the problem is a lack of trust between people in the community of every color in every community except maybe beverly hills where they own the police so that these there there is a lack of trust there's a breakdown of trust and when i'm tired is hearing the cops and the police complain that citizens are the ones that have to do the work you are there to protect and serve that me. get to know where you will that have some humanity and protract those people that are there not trying to ruin some kids live because now is going to have a theft on this case we're going to lose out of college on opportunities or everything that's gross it is gross and at the end of the day come on you're there to do police work you're not there to entrap people and do all that it's absolutely

ridiculous to work for a living. as it appears there is a major feud heating up between saudi arabia and canada now canada last week on twitter the canadian foreign minister demanded that the saudi kingdom release jailed human rights activists a move saudi arabia to the fence to an essence responded with a number of measures aiming to put a hurt on the canadian economy r.t.s. alex mileage has more on the story from toronto. so the latest from saudi arabia is that they're going to stop buying wheat and barley from canada now that's kind of funny since guess who i was controlling shares of the canada wheat board well it would be a saudi arabian company to the to the tune of two hundred and fifty million dollars but this is just the latest in a string of punishments against canada they start off by boot not our ambassador and then pulling their ambassador from canada and then they moved on to different things such as say that they're not going to do any new trading with us and that

they're going to pull out sixteen thousand students from canada saudi students so these poor kids who are about to start their school year well they're going to be yanked out of this country and sent someplace else i don't know if that's really fair but that's what's happening more and i just think students also patients out of hospitals if you're a saudi patient care well you're going to be sent someplace else i don't know if they're to be checking how sick you are i don't think really that's a part of the bigger agenda and i don't know how to get home because starting next week flights out of canada to saudi arabia won't be happening anymore the saudis are banning of that as well you know when you break this all down the educational exchange they expect to be suspended flights the the wack. of investment or pulling of investments out of canada as well you just see just how bitter saudis get when somebody criticizes them whole that's horrible but what's canada going to do all about the do about all of this while canada is playing the boyscout that it usually is the canadian government has gone to the british and it's gone to the u.a.e.

and say hey please help us can you help us out with this issue we're having with our friends the saudis they also want the us jumping on this but guess what the us is saying because you're both close allies of the us we're both close allies of the us can you believe that the saudis remember them of the plane nine eleven thing and remember canada with all those planes in the air during nine eleven we let people into our homes well we're both close allies according to the us so the us isn't getting involved it's all i'm going to say about that i don't really want to dig too much further into u.s. affairs because we just don't do stuff like that here now good riddance basically to saudi arabia i think that's really the key issue here we saw the nine hundred armored vehicles of that was a very controversial thing here in canada and to with that a lot of canadians thought that we probably shouldn't be doing that since these weapons are being used in saudi arabia and in yemen as well according to some reports but you know there is an issue here we did do something wrong chrystia freeland the foreign minister of canada sent.