well people. just twelve years fifty per month. this hour's headlines stories a facebook investors push for mark zuckerberg to quit following a series of scandals the latest being the firm's links to a p.r. agency accused of semitic attacks against billion or. the asia pacific summits where leaders fail to wrap on a joint declaration of trade rivalry between the u.s. and china is laid bare. on talking of birds how popular russian cartoon is accused of being a propaganda tool designed to influence children's minds around. two

am encouraged to pm in beijing nine in the morning right here in moscow this monday november the nineteenth welcome to our to international our top story facebook surprise mark zuckerberg is on pressure from the firm's major investors who want him to step aside chairman their patience is wearing to following a series of scandals over the past year which is plate the social media behemoths. facebook is behaving like it's a special snowflake it's not it is a company and companies need to have a separation of chair and c.e.o. that concentration of power creates a lot of defensiveness within the company it's an exercise in hyden that there is

a problem rather than admit in that there is a problem and set in the roadmap to fixing it. well the latest headline grabbing scandal to hit facebook a run in with billionaire philanthropist toward soros not been explained things are not going well for mark zuckerberg he's been involved at facebook in a wave of scandals involving privacy violations and data leaks and now protesters are outraged. by. facebook our mission is to give people the power to build communities and bring the world closer together more than two billion people come to our platform each month to stay connected with friends and family facebook is taking issue with a protest sign portraying the zuck as an octopus with tentacles spreading all over the world they say that that imagery is anti-semitic however facebook had no

problem playing the same card against the protesters they even hired a p.r. firm facebook employed republican opposition research firm to discredit activists protest is in part linking them to the liberal finance yes george soros it will sit atop his business relationships being a juror civil rights group to cause some criticism of the company's anti semitic yeah blame it on george soros the liberal billionaire known for splashing money on liberal causes now he's certainly no fan of facebook do you didn't get that moment it is not. new word. to protect society accused of constant criticism of their. dead after the tsunami in two manage. days and i'm no good but here's the irony when it came out that facebook was accusing soros of being the master manipulator behind the protesters soros then accused of facebook of anti-semitism you know they're also aware that much of this

hateful and blatantly false and semitic information is spread via facebook. the notion that your company you'll direction actively engaged in the same behavior is frankly astonishing to me zuckerberg says that he's got nothing to do with the soros claims the p.r. firm was hired without his permission now they've been fired he says he has nothing but total respect for soros and billionaire to billionaire now the company does admit they did investigate soros connections to the protesters however they say it's got nothing to do with his jewish heritage to suggest this was an anti semitic attack he's reprehensible and untrue both soros and zuckerberg say that the other guy is motivated by ethnic bigotry the same kind of ethnic bigotry to boot is your mind blown it should be able pop and r.t. new york. well legal analyst and media commentator lionel sees the often absurd blame game is obscuring some real and very serious issues with facebook it's that

troll mentality anything i can throw at you to cause you to be defensive even if it did gillis. at the semitism zina phobia home of. myside ginny you don't have to prove it nobody has ever said excuse me for it explain to me how i'm guilty of this no once i slap that label on you you have to just prove it so much the presumption of innocence in reverse but the real issue here is not fake no use of the raj and george soros it's one about my in for i'm a you know the cambridge analytical what are you doing with me what about what are you taking in from my family in me and children in where we live how are you using this seemingly innocuous seemingly welcoming

social network information and data are the currency of the twenty first century and that's the issue that matt that's missed colm pool lately. u.s. vice president mike pence sees washington is ready to continue its trade war against beijing by doubling tarra fs on chinese goods his remarks came at the un you will asian pacific economic cooperation summit this weekend the event ended on a historically low note the member states failed to agree on a final joint statement across the story nikki aren't. fears over the u.s. china trade war have still not been put to bed sure it's all smiles and much in shirts and the family photo.

but unlike previous years this summits was less about togetherness and more kids who well divisions of a family breakdown with washington and beijing vying for the loyalties of other countries you know the two big giants in the room what can i say so which economic superpower would do you side with we have option a china striving to better communications and connections. i was looking at the vast ocean when i boarded the ship and it struck me that we are all indeed fellow passengers in the same boat that is keep steering the wheel steady and paddle in the right direction and it seems that whereas with misgivings and is working on becoming more open. your mind kind has reached a crossroads which direction should we choose cooperation or confrontation or openness or closed doors when when progress or a zero sum game and it wants to be able to reach you easier by land by sea any way

possible then we have option b. the usa now aside from everything else the us is better than china why because it says so united states has a principled approach that stands in stark contrast to some other nations our vision will prevail besides beijing is just a user anyway china is taking advantage of the united states for many many years. those days are over. unlike china the us doesn't want to tie you down it just wants you to do things the american way so it doesn't have to punish the united states. offers a better option we don't drown our partners in sea of debt we don't coerce compromise your independence with a lot to say on the local fun club at hand if this was a custody battle see jim paine good get the kids the red carpets were rolled the bones plates chinese flanks were waved clearly papua new guinea has already been

wooed by the middle kingdom but how did the other countries feel some analysts say the u.s. still has its trump card and despite all this america first talk many countries in the region still crave a slice of the american pie the truck to put to sea has become. recent or an excuse for small countries to our support and this will help from the united states to hedge against china i think that is wonderful news for the small countries despite the division and disagreement between china and the us and the rivalry among them are escalating i think. very much an opportunity rather than something i grew up i'm actually not bring up of because you provide a lot of opportunities for the smaller countries to get into these rivalry the scenario and trying to work together to try to find us and child together so that

they can get past a lockdown it was an apex of firsts first time has been held in papua new guinea and the only time leaders have been unable to agree on a formal declaration so is the last on the cards for the apec family with trump and she said to me to the g twenty this month in their first face to face since the trade spun began the question is will the leaders be having double tyrus chocolate cake or coerced into sour grapes. ok to the other side of the world now in mexico where protesters have plussed with police during a demonstration against the wave of my. making their way through the country. i was i was. the hundreds gathered in tijuana on the u.s. border where a car of of migrants from central america are trying to make their way into the

united states last thursday alone about two thousand migrants arrived in the area i thought was and more are soon expected they're likely to be stuck there for months while a sign the occasions are processed putting pressure on mexico or local services the u.s. has ramped up its border security with helicopter patrols on barbed wire for the residents of tijuana temperature frae. migrants it's a human avalanche but i'm not against the migrants i mean the ways they enter in a country you know obama could have or they think if they don't cross it's necessary to deport them soon and to close the border and try to treat this kind of problem like a national security issue you know i don't want to register i want to ask for asylum because nine months ago the brother tried to do you mean political completely but what i know what we go into way too little bit because people say that it is a lie they're not giving anything they're doing that so people exhaust and then

deport them to one juror. sitting the kids in front of the t.v. to watch cartoons should be a safe bet to keep them quiet just for a bit at least just make sure though they're not being covertly programmed with propaganda some western news reports claim a globally acclaim russian series is trying to influence young minds affecting the good report. and that little sweetheart was matia from the cartoon in the bear originally russian the series has been translated into dozens of languages and won the hearts of millions across the globe but it turns out there may be a sinister side to the enduring little girl and her protective pet decently trying to. bring him to me. now what russia has forgotten to mention there is that some cartoons are in fact

evil putin propaganda yep according to a times u.k. article moshe is just another putin puppet. russia is funny steep. but also a plucky she punches a bunch of weight is no fun fish to see. and i honestly don't know who should be more offended by that comparison so where's the evidence of the kremlin's influence well critics seem to be particularly worried about one scene and a single episode or moshe's seen wearing a soviet border guards hat. apparently that's meant to be a statement on russia's defense of its borders but even if we say that's true what kind of kid would pick up on that but hey it's best to start when they're young right the studio behind this propaganda masterpiece of course denies being

influenced by the kremlin's hand saying they received no state funding but we did a bit of digging and found some ominous signs you simply can't ignore here comes the kremlin for all of two seconds that could easily be interpreted as a soviet red star the skies as an innocent christmas decoration and you may not realize it but the weird hat that must have got on here is a traditional russian hat now i know those examples. aren't so much propaganda as they are just random russian things but that's all we could try but worry not it turns out the bear itself is a representation of russia as a whole you see bear you think russia right. the base symbolizes russia it's a fact it's a struggle for the minds part of a hybrid explosion in which a negative image of russia is replaced by a positive oh the horror the horror now you know what your children are being

exposed to and can protect them accordingly. the bear are not coming to invade your homeland masha and the band is hybrid warfare. the british empire apologist and who sums up american decadence bits of the coffee. my nephew is a watch in my shoes a very cute they don't seem to be particularly indoctrinated. i really really do not want to read more about how masha in the back is putin is propaganda. i can confirm that i watched two episodes of march and there when i was nine and i suddenly became a twitter bot he speaks russian. if anyone has monday morning blues as the british prime minister with a crucial week ahead to try and sell her beleaguered brags a plan that will get you right up to speed on longer stories for this.

you know world big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic they follow the only silly i'm going to resist i

don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. we start back in afghanistan where more than twenty eight thousand police officers and soldiers have been killed there over the last three years not is according to the country's president nearly two decades of war have left the country scarred unaffected millions not least of all children as playgrounds pose deadly dangers.

we were on our way to school early in the morning where there was an explosion i lost my leg now i'm scared about my future. there was fighting in the afternoon between evan forces and the taliban in an unexploded bomb was left behind when we were on our way to the school it went four of us were killed and the others will eat it. when we were healthy we used to go out and play we walked to school and to the mosque.

now we're not able to go to school i would teacher comes to our house and teach since. my children were in the hospital for over one month but they are still continuing their treatment at home because they are still severely injured. more than two thirds of women in tokyo support having single sex train car ages on public transport according to a poll of five major world cities it puts the japanese capital where head of the average when it comes to concerns about safety on buses and trains in the major metropolitan cities where polling took place kyra. second while just over half of women in mexico city back the idea despite the study showing it's the most

dangerous city for females on public transport less than thirty percent of women in new york and london supported it they were more concerned with time on the cost of travel or women only carriages were introduced in tokyo nearly twenty years ago to combat the problem of groping on crowded rush hour trains known in japanese chicken it's still a major problem in the city where more than two thirds of sexual harassment claims last year took place on metro trains or in stations when i was a junior high school student it took me an hour on the paths train to get to school every morning she can happen to me almost every day my first you can experience was when there was sixteen years old i was so scared they couldn't do anything i think my school uniform made me a target i froze i did nothing i just got of the train and went to school i felt disgusted angry and confused but mostly scared but it is not

a universally popular idea in tokyo one group of men protested by boarding a women only courage in february calling the policy discriminatory other critics point out it doesn't solve the wider problem. segregated trains what's next instead of fixing the problem let's separate the sexes bad logic here and it will lead to other forms of segregation at best women only facilities provided only moment to rest bite sigur geisha doesn't stop sexual violence the ethical response to violence is to stop their aggressors not segregate the victims why is there no men only carriage to balance everything out and to offer a place where men don't have to worry about being falsely accused. yeah lots of opinions on this are spoken talk show host john gold for one things better law enforcement is the answer but i really don't like the idea of segregation i mean where do you end if we go down that route and also actually use

a dreadful term isn't victim blaming each not the women who are sold it's the man with gold medals for harassment and abuse we must just enforce them out woman has every right to drive. travel on the subway systems and be safe it is up to the subway systems and the courts and the police to enforce those i don't think this will really seriously i want to live in a modern tolerant liberal society well woman just like a man can just like they wish go where they wish and be safe so be sure to all of us to demand of our politicians not all will make is that these things reinforce. the british prime minister takes her brakes it sales pitch to brussels this week theresa may struggling to get backing for her plan which has led to a raft of government resignations on party plots to her from downing street after

one of her toughest weeks yet pm may said that getting rid of her would not make break to talks any easier it's actually about what's right for the country and as far as i'm concerned i would be distracted from actually the important job in this critical week of negotiations of making sure we do get that final good deal for the country but you know a change of leadership at this point isn't going to make the negotiations and it is not going to change the parliamentary arithmetic. it should be noted that some of the biggest criticism of trees amazing divorce plan comes from within our own party at least twenty five conservative m.p.'s say they have submitted letters of no confidence in the prime minister now forty eight are needed to trigger a leadership vote it is taking a toll on the party the tories are slipping in the polls breaks it supporting voters lose faith in the p.m.'s plan it's seeing the opposition labor party take a three point lead on ramping up pressure for a snap election the u.k.

is scheduled to leave the european union on march the twenty ninth next year out of just what four months away not after a bitter afford referendum two years ago saw the country normally vote for breaks at a summit later this week is scheduled to see e.u. leaders sign off on the withdrawal deal. with the lingering threat of a no deal breaks it is still king fears of the army being deployed onto the streets british news reports citing military sources say that over one thousand troops are in stunned by ten thousand more ready to sense if chaos. journalist new car believes treason may come another tough week ahead. the next five days are going to be absolutely crucial. not just in that for that reason may ask the conservative party and british prime minister but for the all direction all relationship with the european union it's going to be very difficult to get. it not impossible

looking at the numbers unless he could somehow get from the e.u. in the next couple of days some kind of further concessions that would make the deal. it carries it may have to fall this week you have a new conservative leader coming in. after the election leadership then that's going to be very how that plays out because the fact of the matter is the house of commons where the majority of m.p.'s are actually generally speaking favorable to remain. when news would be. my first instinct was that you wait and see if you read it it's a long document and it really is a bad deal that really is actually a deal with staying in. this is actually a deal which is a very long way i think from what majority of people. voted for.

i think it's fair to say many people these days are truly obsessed with ticking things but for one minor run of the mill pick. spell or.

more and more money is being spent to run the world. is it making us safer next on sophie and co we asked the man who used to control the cia. all that. politicians do. to put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be for us. to try to be for

us this is what the folks really be good. i'm interested in the waters. there should. when the whole make this manufacture consent to consent to a public wells. when the ruling class isn't protect themselves. when the final larry go round lifts only the one percent so. we can all middle of the room signals. doing the rounds learning more you don't even really follow. so. 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 have to teach this. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit first shirt 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 numbers you need to remember is one to one business shows you can afford to miss the one and only boom but. just so feel coerced to feel sure not said esther rift between the u.s.

and the rest of the world is growing bladder at home democrats are now in control of the mouths. of a game changer as to results of the year. as the u.s. . political stalemate with congress divided between republicans and democrats continues to pursue its divisive. which is making america's european allies uneasy the president spoke to achieve his global goals with the democrats in the house. treaties put in place by his predecessors the trump treatment and how will the u.s. move forward in tomorrow's world war two decades cia and veteran rolf larsen welcome to the program why it's always great to have you with us it's been a year things have changed lots to discuss now world leaders recently go.