that has been brought to the brink of collapse the whole system is decimated the movement of population is growing because of. conflicts and hostilities going on so we really do think that. more hostilities and you know the expansion of those hostilities with it will exacerbate an already humanitarian situation even more we see violations cross the country and it's really sad to. issue or speak about civilian casualties in a matter of less than a week so for us this is painful and whenever we see civilian casualties we i mean. this is just horrific. facebook may have closer ties to washington than previously thought it's now

emerged the social media giants prolong on experts funded by branches of the u.s. government and nato when it comes to tracking foreign influence your trying to has the story. how's that for a mark zuckerberg nightmare he or his steam in front of a horde of suits go and sort these russian bots out sort out the fakes sort them out or did i just paint a good picture of the reality web giants of been facing lately in the past election you. we've seen how foreign actors are abusing social media platforms those images that can be attributed or associated with the russian company lack of resources a lack of commitment and a lack of genuine effort the likes of saw a 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 move it 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 are say that that is provably false then we will significantly reduce the distribution of that content why do you want to just say get off our platform will look as a porn 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. got it at the end of the day facebook's not so happy with that online policeman's hat so zuck in 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. linked to nato with their help thirty two suspicious pages have already been sorted out the big ship is not turned around overnight. but i think that the. no give them some opportunity to work with them and i hope that in a month when we have at least three other platforms in that we will see. a willingness to collaborate with others to come up with

a solution bravo and it's not just facebook or doing just as great one question though since already most americans had to social media to get their news when will freedom of speech ring a bell political commentator brian logan says that the left is moving to get rid of undesirable views on social media platforms. 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 in 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 control because parisians 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 the mainstream media.

form a where you get your news reader for you and you don't have any kind of dissenting viewpoints. a new u.s. poll suggests the reputation of news organizations is in decline it found the more than a quarter of american citizens now think the president should out the power to close media outlets deemed to be behaving badly and he's kind of northen took to the streets of new york to get opinions on freedom of speech 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 now when the president attacks journalists we question his motivation at this point you could dismiss the comments simply as media oversensitivity or bias against donald trump however whether it's media partisanship or trumps 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 pres. that 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 lidia's haters are republicans and it's no secret what outlets they want 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 they're smart if you're smart and you have a good mindset or 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 the school back to page one what the press write to him appearing in those twenty six percent mean that you know the constitution i'll be brought 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 and no maybe i'd agree with that statement more of course if they're imposing violence or inciting some kind of you know on peaceful motion 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 of you 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. r.t. new york. the people of easter island dog demanding the return of a sacred statue take a more than one hundred years ago by the british navy it was presented as

a gift to queen victoria for eventually ending up in the british museum where it's company on display some say it should get asked visitors if it should be handed back. 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 optic source during the british empire is 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 date 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 return 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 but what do the visitors think let's find out through it early speaking i would say it should be returned i think it's part of a heritage says just of history we thought 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 so i think like staying here would be edified so you're leaning a little bit more towards letting them stay here. i stand firmly on the fence i mean i can see the benefits of post to be honest i mean if they went away we

wouldn't see them here and we would have to appreciate do you think it's realistic to expect that a place like this would return some of the you know that some of the most famous pieces are ones that were. kind of brought here under question of yours as. well the dozen people have reportedly been injured after the gaza city cultural center with its in an exchange of fire between israel and palestine. was earlier this really military carried out a series of strikes on the gaza strip on wednesday night that was a response to palestinian missile attacks against israeli territory idea shelling killed at least three people including a pregnant woman as well as her. child. we are now in. the middle of the gaza city where we are attending the funeral of we

now and began work yesterday during strikes lunch and gaza strip in that three year old mother that was pregnant with a nine month baby i'm expecting him. but yet is the one year and a half baby as you see what is the new. thing. that does. the baby oh you see these speeches i think that the airstrike came from the side the smell is very bad where blood is filling the place as you see the place is completely destroyed after talking to people in the same neighborhood they said that they found. the mother and the baby shot heard with pieces of their body were they were not in a complete body of jean and the journey ran to the mosque to find out if the explosion was there or in the house ambulances came in the voices of people

screaming were heard inside the house we started knocking on the door no one answered we went to the other door a small child opened it he was frightened he ran away from the woman's body blown. baby was to the ambulances took the victims to hospital the husband was injured in the leg stomach. and strikes were launched. on the israeli forces kept on seeing an strikes where the palestinian resistance also fired rockets into israel policy that they would confront and strikes with strikes so far there have been an announcement between the israelis and the palestinian factions where yesterday was a very very tough night on all the palestinians in gaza strip tomorrow the palestinian factions are calling for the palestinians to participate in that very much of return holliston us continue to protest continue to demonstrate yesterday

gaza strip was bring out a new. war against the palestinians meanwhile the israel defense forces report around one hundred eighty rockets were fired from the gaza strip the i.d.f. adds that its retaliatory shelling targeted all the one hundred fifty terrorist sites most of the palestinian strikes it open spaces but at least two landed in one israeli town causing destruction and casualties according to the i.d.f. seven israeli citizens were injured. the un's middle east envoy is now warning of quote devastating consequences for people if the israeli palestinian conflict continues to escalate the dawn of that the situation can quote rapidly deteriorate. and that brings you right up today do join me in just over half an hour's time for the latest news headlines.

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welcome to the alex salmond show from barcelona one of the great cities of europe one of the greatest cities in the world but i see even the city of its two thousand year plus history i see that i think is exciting as an argument as the events of the last year but october the first last year of a referendum on independence was suppressed by the intervention of the spanish state police then the subsequent declaration of the catalogs republic was met by the imprisonment. of many of the catalan political leaders ten months later of the political impasse that means there's a new prime minister and a new president of the catalog people today and the setting of the gen all the thoughts of catalonia i asked. for his strategy of how to achieve

his dream of a cataloging republic. thank you very much thank you. president clinton i'm delighted to welcome you to the show well thank you very much pleasure to be with you here in this palace that the government of catalonia where you were elected president you are the fourth candidate to be put forward in the parliament you were elected by a plurality of one single vote exactly and you yourself have said in your opinion president bush is still the legitimate president of catholic these circumstances is it difficult to examine presidential authority and i think that what a normal with this is exceptional now in catalonia is our political situation you know there are political prisoners in jail in

a spain the market at this point because that they only one. to to let the vote and i mean preaching now there are people in exile as well and there are thousands and thousands of catalans being persecuted investigated by the spanish police into that so we are we are living in a very it's a critical moment critical political more in in catalonia and i think that is the point and the symbol you will bring your lapel now which we see all road in catalonia is this the symbol of those who have been imprisoned incarcerated the politicians and campaign yes exactly this is the yellow ribbon that we wear this is the situation for demanding the freedom for our colleagues that are in region and demanding coming back because. the money coming back the democracy in and the free of expression in catalonia as well the person you see you've come into

the the office of exceptional and exceptionally difficult circumstances what is your strategy to try and get catalonia back on the rude to be able to choose to have an independent republic which is sure we are here because. democratic mandate that come after the last election with. the borders. a boat it for a politicians that continued the process of independence that was beginning five six years ago in the last three elections and then these parties in catalonia have won the elections so we think that the people has expressed their support to the area of the republic. and that is what that's the aim of our government

to go ahead to go on in what we think that is the mandate. the people he's asking us to do for the independent parties of the three main independence party yes you famously are not a member of a political party not at all is this an advantage in being able to coalesce that independence grouping together suppress a game from the basis of this independence movement i used to work with. one of the former presidents of. one of the main important. association for the independence movement. member of. the national assembly that is the second largest. association for the independence well now in the position to hear what the people are asking us to do for you the

new president but there's also a new prime minister in spain saying as. desired open up the possibility of dialogue which will clearly hasn't been there over the past few years yeah exactly i had a meeting with mr sanchez so for first time in many years we had the opportunity to sit together around the same table and to talk about everything this is a good starting point we agreed this is a political issue that should be solved politically now there is starting these dialogue between catalonia spain but now we should see facts from from the spanish government we will be there we will be there to talk about everything let me take you back to another key moment just the first of october last year on the day of the referendum of the activities of the spanish state police which everyone in the world saw and yet of a source of it where were you doing and what were your immediate reaction to what

you were seeing while with more than two million people you were. in the school that you suppose that was my putting a station with my family and other friends we occupied this school. from friday evening just to assure. all our neighbors and all our friends could vote you know fending the ballot defending defending sadly this was the idea let's let's be there because if we are not there probably the police should close the door and it will be possible to do both peaceful and freely we were a bit of it to defend people to vote. and we did it let me take you forward a few weeks to the declaration of

a catalan republic following on the referendum and then within a few days the the rest of it led imprisonment of many political leaders and in catalonia you go from an exuberant high to a great depression as you saw. the society was shocked i think that after some weeks we started to recover ourself we started to we are these these yellow ribbon we're starting to think that we should do many things and now in the pendants couple a movement. every day doing thousands of activities around catalonia expressing their support to political prisoners to the people of. any of those. conversations last for with a promise to sanction a. is the release of the political prisoners

a prerequisite of having substantial. from your perspective we think that the political speech universe should be free should be free this evening should be free tomorrow we are not negotiating in any circumstances because if we negotiate about. the freedom of the prisoners in a certain way we are admitting that they are in breach and for for some reasons in fact this is not this is not my opinion it is not. you know of when the these movement got the money this is the opinion of the justice of germany this is the opinion of the justice of these that we know of the justice of belgium scotland as well so we see. in four counties in europe justice is going one direction. spain just is going just in the opposite

direction. who is right europe or spain in these remarks because mr put them on i'm going to do to see he is a free citizen now that he can move around europe set the spirit except to spain imagine except the spain but even so would you regard the suspension of the request for european arrest. as deescalation. or do you feel that they may be reactivated at some point to the next few months for us for the catalans is the same having. having mr hoyer now it's turned for mr scientist to demonstrate not only in that to the world that things in spain can be done in a different way from the country. parting but what's assume for the sake of

argument that i was the prime minister of spain and i said to us it was the person i've been thinking about how to come to a settlement and i've been thinking back to the constitutional court suspension of the agreed statute of autonomy i've been thinking about what happened in the first three tobel last year not been thinking about the political prisoners knows and they excel and i think it's time to revive the settlement that we were agreed on which had been passed in catalonia in a referendum would that be enough to at least for the. short term be something that you would be interested in discussion or would you say to mr sciences look we have to have a referendum on independence an answer should be done by the spanish government because we won so that then we need in fact we said that we need at the first of october. and we can negotiate about these referendum ok and political the gradation

of independence of the twenty seventh of october by agreed referendum from the spanish government is this could be a solution but let me be clear about what you're saying you're saying that if the worst to be an agreement about having a referendum some point in the future which was acknowledged and accepted as legal and binding by the spanish government then you would be prepared to put aside all decisions made today with regard to the previous level and this this is resin of all deal i think for trying to solve this issue politically as we agreed that is the incentive for myself the case of catalinas have pretty short shrift pretty negative reaction from the leadership of most european countries i'm from the european union institutions do you think that that by the spirit as

a loyal european union member and the european commission doesn't cross a loyal european member we know how difficult it is to be new or state in a war in a war of ace of course we know we know how many sacrifices. people should do in the future if we want to be in the logically but we know as well the real politik how how how we do so if we had that immediate to be independent if we really have strength have that i mean asian have. you know even the name to to to suffer the sacrifices that probably we will have to do to be independent then i don't have any doubt that at the end european union should accept catalonia. member of the scrap of states and finally

mr president you said something very important which was that the case for independence for self-determination and increasingly moved on to be a community case about democracy about participation in contrast which many would see as the defects of the spanish political system and indeed other political systems elsewhere be you yourself have been criticized in the past for writings which were apparently objectionable to catalans with a spanish orientation. what can you do because you know the president of all of catalonia what can you do to unite opinion across catalonia to see this democratic driven that we have this participated the ocracy is a substantially superior vision and inclusive of all people in catalonia i used to say same freedom that they won for catalonia i won the same for for the

spanish people and now freedom in the very. means republic so. i hope that soon republic of catalonia and the republic of spain should meet together a flattering on the need and i think that this is the best future for all of us well i can't determine the future mr president but what i can do is offer you something to toast and they know it very well this is a quick scots gallic for a loving cup you know the drill. only scotch whiskey nothing else will do. all the citizens of cattle think you are thinking you know it's like as if it's the result thank you. of course political opinion is divided in cattle.