i i thought i. was i was. unprecedented discrimination facebook suspends the pages of several highly successful. projects drawing the ire of their manager that's coming up. to this morning from art international a senior french military officer could be set to face punishment after he's paid the damning critique of the u.s. led coalition's campaign against islamic state of syria. and a new report from the u.k.'s house of lords suggest that weapons sales to saudi arabia are killing significant numbers of civilian still and may violate international humanitarian law will even retreat would it have anything to prove

she's skin and bounds that's the worst case of severe malnutrition or. morning eleven am monday morning here in moscow life multi-age cute kevin i with you thanks for taking the time to be with us hope you can stay for the next twenty minutes or so our top story this morning this one the head of a media company behind several successful news projects has hit out at facebook over what they call unprecedented censorship is after the platform suspended a number of math ix pages in a move that coincided with a c.n.n. report claiming the firm is trying to hide somehow its ties to the russian government our correspondent with this story. has been more details coming throughout the morning to try to work out what's going on here what's facebook's problem here well you see the problem is that on math fix pages you can't.

see that some of its funding comes from the russian government and that it's partially owned by an r. and t. subsidiary but first of all it all goes down to understanding whether math thinks management broke any facebook rules well there are no such rules on facebook that require mentioning some sort of links to our tea or russia however the social media told c.n.n. that right now it would start asking page administrators to disclose their russian affiliations but again up until now this wasn't a rule so this is absolutely unprecedented all our attempts to get in touch with facebook and get some sort of explanation haven't led to anything so far so all we can do for now is judged by what facebook was telling c.n.n. . people connecting with bridges shouldn't be misled to bob who's behind them

just as if stepped up enforcement of continuity to northampton behavior and financially motivated over the past year will continue improving so people can get more information about the page a day from. the team behind the pages that were blogs told us that they had received no warnings about the looming punishment they hadn't received any messages with the right to appeal but they already sent this appeal and by the way when it comes to you tube or twitter there have been no issues with fix pages so there were no rules and there was no warning. that they'd have this company tried to do something to conceal its connections so no they were never hiding anything of course it doesn't say right on their front page a line for instance some of our money comes from the russian government but pretty much no one does that no one puts it up like this and whenever it gets.

poisoned sort of people it always notifies them about their parent companies tells them who they're going to work for so that they're always aware of that plus. officially registered in germany so he's on public record anyway you can go on these company registries get all the relevant information if they need it about the funding about the owners about the founders but in c.n.n. investigative report as it may seem that as you've said coincided with this facebook move c.n.n. is trying to make it seem as if all of this is some sort of revelation. but what people watching these videos may not realize is that the russian government is paying for this soap box wasted back then are three new facebook pages and all part of a growing brand of russian backed influence campaigns but not everyone's

that much impressed by the way c.n.n. was spinning there's american comedian jimmy doer pages pushing the videos do not disclose they're backed by the russian government ok all right i did know you had to put who funded you and when you put you put up a video i didn't know that because we have lots of different funders at this show we have over three thousand people who voted us through patriotic we have probably another couple thousand people through pay pal so we have a lot of people that fund our show do have to name every one of them every time i put up a video. anyway and have been steamed told us that whichever reason facebook might try to find four door and what they're doing they believe there's only one reason for their action. we didn't violate any of facebook's policies whatsoever none of our content promotes disinformation our fake news yet c.n.n. and pressured facebook into unprecedented censorship in

a desperate attempt to milk ratings by still going to his teary over russia you know his music with headlines in the sun when this first was at c.n.n. and it was a really c.n.n. the first ones to bring this was a german outlet known as t. online and then also the so-called alliance for secure and democracy which is part of the german marshall fund which it is in its turn funded by the american and german governments did anyone say government funding and actually if you look at pages the likes of al-jazeera online or dollars civilly it's also funded by the german government they're still up and running without any of these alerts so to say tar money german government money. thanks for the update on this so this is quite a complicated story but you know you made total sense of it will it will seize editor in chief margarita simonyan responded to the controversy by closing

a blistering attack on c.n.n. accusing the shamelessly acting in washington's interests. zero in which ignore us c.n.n. is once again acting as the right hand to even lead the crotch of the state department nato and everything connected with them and facebook is doing the same c.n.n. doesn't even make a secret of the fact they did their so called investigation or to be more precise blackmail material on a direct tip from a foundation financed by nato and the state department c n n literally forced facebook to delete our accounts but facebook listen could have refused facebook is so scared of being once again accused of helping the russians out in the election interference and suppressing democracy in the u.s. that it immediately deletes knock out there have only and subscribers of two point five million viewers no complaints against the video itself and the content on the whole were made by the boss when he and i'm quoting here said how can you let those russians to it to our people as these pictures deleted the account which obviously

the situation is going to get worse than no one now is even trying to believe in any freedom all we can talk about it was like it is an open and geo political confrontation in which media space is loved by many and made into real to use of i don't know whether they were set up for this is not exactly what's happening now. there's a great margarita simonyan meantime he's also requested comment for a number of press freedom organizations if we get a thing about from him we will let you know we also spoke to said george. he's a phrase from the london metropolitan university's global policy institute to get his thoughts he told us facebook in his view is actually guilty a double standard here. so anything that the russians have must be looked upon suspiciously but they can't say this explicitly and so they come up with these phony pretext such as oh they haven't disclosed that they're funded by russia what about direction velour what about the b.b.c.

what about al-jazeera what about france one i mean all of these are getting funded by governments but it's the same thing it was when facebook every few weeks announces where they've closed seven hundred thousand accounts that they say are fake accounts because they are really russians will be rainy and i don't know when those these things no one knows who what these accounts are but it keeps the story going that the russians or the rain ians to. officially designated enemies are up to no good. the suspensions of all strong sharp criticism from glenn greenwald to the journalist best known for his revelations about u.s. and u.k. surveillance programs he's accusing facebook c.n.n. and the marshall fund the fund that he was talking about just now of selective censorship most blumenfeld from real news media told us he believes the social media behemoths is increasingly working in concert with the u.s. government. well we know for

a fact that this was done under government pressure but what's taken place is that a series of groups that appear to be private are taking the initial credit starting with c.n.n. the corporate media titan which conducted the investigation but it conducted this that at best a geisha and at the urging of a group that is actually funded by the us government last year my colleague jeff sprague of the grey zone project reported that one of the directors of the alliance for securing democracy the neo conservative jamie fly was promising that there would be more facebook takedowns in the future after the last year's facebook purge and it appears that in the now is the next victim using c.n.n. to put the pressure on facebook so this has taken place under government pressure. of these this morning a prominent french military officer who helped coordinate the fight against islamic

state in syria could be said to face punishment of three published a devastating critique of the u.s. led coalition's anti terror tactics shela do bensky reports damning criticism from a senior french official who's been controlling the french artillery who are aiding kurdish forces on the syrian a rocky border he turning round in this review saying that the u.s. coalition tactics were essentially putting civilians at risk the battle of hygiene was one at least on the ground but by refusing ground in gage meant we unnecessarily prolonged the conflict and thus contributed to increasing the number of civilian casualties we have massively destroyed the infrastructure and given the population a disgusting image of what may be a western style liberation leaving behind the seeds of an imminent resurgence of a new adversary hundreds have died in has seen as a result of thousands of the bomb zz coming down from the air as

a result of the us coalition and us person trump is about to declare victory against ice on the ground in syria this colonel isn't so sure we have a no way won the war because we lack a realistic and lasting policy and an adequate strategy how many how jews will it take to understand that we're on the wrong track his comments came in the national defense review the article has since been removed and the colonel now faces sanctions as a result of publishing the article without prior permission from military officials but is damning account adds weight testimony that we've already heard from other groups such as amnesty international and action against violence who've all talked about the high civilian death toll as a result of the methods used by the u.s. coalition despite the fact that the u.s. official line is that he. doesn't target non-combative on the ground the reality is

as president trump wants to declare that victory the colonel and many others are now questioning victory at what cost at what cost to the people of syria. a new report from u.k.'s house of lords suggests the country is responsible for a significant number of civilian deaths in yemen as a result of its arms sales to saudi arabia the document says that britain should be prepared to suspend some of its weapons exports as they may be in violation of international humanitarian law the government asserts that in its licensing of arms sales to saudi arabia it is narrowly on the right side of international humanitarian law we assess that it is narrowly on the wrong side. it was four years since war erupted in yemen since twenty fifteen the u.k.'s sold four point seven billion dollars worth of weapons to saudi arabia and its partners and at this point has defended the decision the latest report that expresses deep concern about how the arms are being used for its part saudi arabia says it takes all precautions in

its fight against the who the rebels who took power back in twenty fifteen ousting the then president by force we spoke to a political science professor in the u.s. who told us the u.k. is unlikely to give up such a lucrative business. the u.k. really is not interested in how much is actually being. either by british work and really given to saudi arabia from the british point of view or not even independent on whether their weaponry is really are or for the bombings for the killing in you know they were lying strictly on the data provided to them by the growth saudi arabian government the british government most realize. that. war in the middle is not going to stop and will both go. all weapons to the.

mean time as one of the yemeni humanitarian crisis is becoming increasingly severe hundreds of thousands of people in a war torn nation are reportedly at risk of starving to death a staggering one hundred percent of the population are in need of aid is the hering story of one yemeni girl a warning you may find it upsetting. management even the retreat wouldn't have anything to feed her. talent that she has skin in the balance that's the worst case of severe malnutrition.

child malnutrition cases are increasing but only children under five mothers suffer from malnutrition and their babies will to. manage it and all i can do is keep trying to care for her but she will be starving again and again because of horrible conditions live and. haunting in that coming up the u.s. is attempting to send aid shipments to venezuela but president still sticking in fast going nowhere refusing to allow it over the border we'll tell you what the latest is when we're back after the break.

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the why the how. they should. get a good morning the u.s. is stepping up its efforts to get humanitarian aid into venezuela and the sent tons of food and medical supplies to the crisis stricken countries border now could be a hot spot with colombia the shipment was accompanied by an american delegation to including the florida senator marco rubio he took the opportunity to hit out at the embattled venezuelan president nicolas maduro. very minimal enduros regime is not a government it is a mafia it is an organized crime syndicate similar to the mafia is that existed in the forty's and fifty's in all parts of the world and the united states it's a mafia it is nothing like a government. while talking about border being

a potential hot spot it comes to stays after the country's washington backed opposition leader. called for an army of volunteers to head there to receive the aid supplies main time president videos consistently said that he considers u.s. efforts to be interference in the country's domestic affairs and he's ordered the military to prepare a permanent deployment of forces to the border with colombia to avoid provocations as have been described but some of them are duros got doubts about these u.s. shipments the international committee of the red cross in colombia says it has got no plans to participate in any deliveries of assistance to venezuela which it claims are politically motivated the executive director of the ron paul institute daniel mcadams told us it's all part of a concerted u.s. effort to topple the government. well the international aid organizations have explicitly refused to participate in the u.s. is quote unquote humanitarian aid convoy aid relief to venezuela because it's not a centrally what it is is

a regime change operation to skies as aid and in fact that would be illegal according to international law the politicisation the use of the aid the dangling the food in front of people if they overthrow their government is an absolutely cynical move which is not allowed according to international law marco really at the border is designed to escalate he's he's forming a lie and you know that he's engaging in a psychological operation a covert operation in the nose that he's standing in front of the last bridge a saying the door stop closing this bridge that bridge as your viewers know has never been opened. meantime back in the u.s. the state department restricted the travel of venezuela's ambassador to the u.n. it comes days after some middleman card accuse the u.s. of blatantly attempting to orchestrate regime change in venezuela is never banned from leaving new york some in qatar accuse the u.s. of lying in manipulating the facts to mislead people about the true situation in the country as well as minister of foreign affairs now has responded by calling the

movement restrictions an attack on freedom of speech della mcadams again got some thoughts on it too. where they do this to countries that they want to target for regime change or target for punishment i think they think that it's a russian diplomats in washington d.c. if i remember right and they do this for other countries that are on the u.s. bad list it's just another attempt to marginalize the legitimate government representatives of venezuela this is the most this is the most you've got to hand it to this is the most transparent in overtly explained regime change in history. debates are up to newquay over the possible return of a nineteen year old ice ill wife and british citizen beggar misplayed for years in syria but now wants to return to the u.k. to raise a newborn baby. i think a lot of people have like sympathy towards me for everything i've been through you know. their i didn't know what i was going to do and i left and i just was hoping

that maybe that saved me and my child come back never did anything. and it made public and i never cared to become a serial or the quest not gone done well in many quarters britain's home secretary strongly opposing the nineteen year old's return and says he'll do everything to prevent it from happening the ucas justice secretary though taking a soft a stance he says that has the legal right to return and that citizens cannot simply be made stateless we asked people on the streets of the london neighborhood where begum used to live what they thought about it should she come but or not. the teacher shipped it out like. this or any one. of the too many countries offering and each. offered something that's really really serious and st mark you know people who are still terrorists let's start to be want to hold on this is a very tight ship it really not just this is like i said there's

a little. how would you feel if she was to meet into your neighborhood or that sort . wouldn't be the solution. nobody would go so someone supported history a big and left the u.k. twenty fifteen along with two other teenage girls she was fifteen at the time she said one of her friends later died when our home was bombed we discuss the controversy with a group he's a former military intelligence officer and john mahmoud a former home office counterterrorism advisor. she's an individual who chose to leave the u.k. a room free will swear allegiance. and a terror organization and the terror organization wanted to destroy the very way of mice that she had run away from and the terror organization has stated them has killed. she still remains loyal to you has condemned it she hasn't felt any remorse for what she's done so you know the british government's

choices whether they put any effort in to bring your back and my personal use of them think they should be real difficulties when she came back and she would be a burden on society i believe she should be allowed back because she was groomed as a child not as an adult she was brainwashed i was fully aware that we are she is our line propaganda is remarkably powerful so we should show her some level of mercy intensity and i think it would also be out about pages for us if she were to come back because we could perhaps unpick the influence that they were able to have on her and possibly divert or release of you know obstruct other people from going future for numerous reasons why we should better back in there you case if you can because. then on that basis she should be allowed back in so it's only we don't know of any crime she's actually committed i think we have the capability to ensure that she is fully integrated thank you to. you know

a lot of strong views neither side of the divide before i leave us one program code later today you may like the thought of a quick taste of it so we seven hours of talks to an acclaimed war photographer who's traveled to more than a hundred prices this time to document the tragedies people are going through i heard sound war photographer say that they become addicted to war to the point where they feel that they can't help but go when war is there again and again turn time again has this happened to you. yeah dno it's something that i very actively fought that instinct because it is extremely addictive i think on a number of different levels i mean i think the adrenaline is something that's easy to get addicted to i think another thing that's really hard is when you come back from these situations i mean when you come back from war zones and different countries i've worked in one hundred sixteen countries at this point you know when

i when i come back to the u.s. and you know i'm around friends who you know have have wonderful quote unquote normal lives it's it's always hard to it's hard to relate to each other i mean i think they have a hard time picturing my life and what i see and what i experience and i have a hard time picturing what it's like to have a family and to live in one place and to come home to the same bed every night so there's a disconnect and it makes you feel kind of more out of place when you're home in a normal situation than when you're you know sleeping underneath a tank in a desert you know waiting for you know something crazy to happen and. yes it just it was you know quote it so far it's only going to time the way things look in so far this morning from international i'm kevin remind all a story straight mobile device if you are up for the job the rest of the morning or

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more. it'll change when you don't let us. know what. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered peter lavelle is the u.s. lead coups against a legitimate government in venezuela faltering also as russia turkey and iran's search for peace in syria washington beats the drums of war against a rant and much much more on this edition of crossfire.

talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow exhibit a moreau he is that a pound or of the center of political strategic analysis strat but we also have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst with international and in london we crossed alexander me curious he is the editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate look at let me go to alexander macarius in in london here i remember the days the years ago when the u.s. led against chile was in progress and nixon asked kissinger to make sure that the economy there would scream is that the same game plan that we have here with venezuela because it seems like.