this outsmart international law and president of discrimination facebook suspends the pages are several successful. projects drawing the ire of the bosses. senior french military officer could be said to face punishment pens a damning critique of the u.s. led coalition's campaign against islamic state in syria. new report from the u.k.'s house of lords suggest that weapons sales to saudi arabia are causing significant numbers of civilian deaths and may to violate international law.

will even treat britain have anything to feel she's skin and bounds that's the worst case of severe malnutrition. by their life kevin owen here in moscow it's such a turn one of the afternoon moscow time this monday first in the media company behind several successful online news projects has hit a facebook accusing a platform of unprecedented censorship is often the social networking giant suspended a number of math think media pages including one called in the now which produced a snappy video comment the move coincided with a c.n.n. report claiming that math it was deliberately trying to hide its ties to the russian government and early about corresponding across this one today. the problem is that on math physics pages you can see that some of its funding comes from the

russian government and that it's partially oh and by an r. and t. subsidiary but first of all it all goes down to understanding whether methinks 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 have a lead 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 bot who's behind them just as if we've stepped up our enforcement of continuity to northampton behavior and

financially motivated spam over the past year will continue improving so people can get more information about the page a day from the team behind the blog pages told us that they had received no warnings about the looming punishment they hadn't received any messages giving them the right to appeal however the appeal has already been sent and by the way when it comes to the likes of you tube or twitter the pages are there and there are no issues that they'd have there's this company tried to do something to conceal its connections and all know they were never hiding anything of course it does say on their front page on line for instance money comes from russia but pretty much no one knows that and whenever someone gets employed by my fake they're always informed. companies so that they're always aware of who they're working for and this company is officially registered in germany so pretty much anyone can go on

the company's registry and find out all the relevant information on the founders who's funding it the owners etc but in cnn's investigative report all of this is being portrayed as some sort of groundbreaking revelations 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 kevin not everyone's that much impressed by the way c.n.n. was spinning this there's american comedian jimmy doer pages pushing the videos do not disclose they're backed by the russian government. ok all right i didn't know you had to put who funded you but 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 patriot and we have

probably no other couple thousand people through pay pal so we have a lot of people that fund our show do i have to name everyone every time i put up a video and it would have been steamed told us that whichever reason facebook might try to find for 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 or fake news yet c.n.n. and pressured facebook into on president to censorship in a desperate attempt to milk ratings by still going to his theory over russia you know has made a good headline didn't it soused who when this first was at c.n.n. and not really the first ones to bring this up or german outlets t. mobile and also the so-called alliance to secure democracy part of the german marshall fund which in turn gets its cash from u.s. and german governments did anyone say government funding anyway pages by the likes

of al-jazeera or deutsche welle they are up and running even without these kind of tar government money german government money alerts. well the company spoke to the chief of operations of marketing at moffitt media j. he says facebook's never required pages to display information about the sources of funding to full first of all facebook should not tell us to do that if they're not going to tell everyone to do it but they haven't even gone as far as having any kind of policy articulated about it at all so we were. fully compliant with all facebook policies at all times and there is no requirement whatsoever to display any type of funder information on facebook pages and it is common practice to not do so clearly the hysteria that's built up in the states around all things

having anything to do with russia and especially at facebook i have a ties with facebook because they're in a tough position needing to respond quickly to any kinds of these reports however c.n.n. really kind of led them to panic and make a bad decision which which was to shut down pages with millions of fans that completely singles out russia as a government. when ignoring the fact that every state media operation from a to b b c two n.p.r. receives government funding and they need to come up with a policy that deals with everyone in a fair way all reactions started to come in the russian president's spokesperson to be to press kosovo's way to unleash you know saying it's crucial for this channel to hold facebook to account. that her in chief ball smugly to some onions responded to the scandal too she launched a blistering attack on c.n.n. accusing it of shamelessly acting in washington's interests sandwiches not us

c.n.n. is once again acting as the right hand to even lead crotch of the state department and everything connected with them and facebook is doing the same c.n.n. doesn't even make a secret of. in fact they did their so called investigation ought to be more precise blackmail material on a direct hit from a foundation financed by nato and the state department c.n.n. election forced facebook to delete our accounts but facebook listen could have refused facebook is so scared of been once again accused of helping the russians in the election interference and suppressing democracy in the u.s. that it immediately deletes knock out the had forty million subscribers and two point five billion views no complaints against the video itself and the content on the whole were made by facebook but when c.n.n. called you said how can you let those russians talk to our people we spoke just deleted the account obviously the situation is going to get worse no one now is

even trying to believe in any freedom or even talk about it it is an open geo political confrontation in which media spaces and loved by many are made into real to you so i don't know whether they were set up for this that's exactly what's happening now. i can tell you our requests are coming for a number of press freedom organizations or get response but from then we'll let you know what they say we also spoke to a senior research of from london metropolitan university's global policy institute about the measures he told us that facebook at his view is guilty of clear double standards here. so any think that the russians must be looked upon suspiciously but the concept of 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 françois i mean all of these are getting funded by governments but it's the same thing applies when facebook every few weeks announces

what they've closed seven hundred thousand accounts that they say are fake accounts because they are really russians or rain ians you know no one knows these things no one knows who or what these accounts are but it keeps the story going that the russians or the radiance to. officially designated enemies are up to no good. thanks today a program french military officer who helped coordinate the fight against islamic state in syria could be set to face punishment after he published a devastating critique of the u.s. led coalition's anti terror tactics more on this this lunchtime shall we do been reporting from. damning criticism from a senior french military official this is the guy in charge of the french artillery ating could forces on the syrian a rocky border he's criticized the u.s.

coalition tactics saying that it's actually 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 ad the saree hundreds of people have died as thousands of forms have a rained down in those attacks alleged by the u.s. coalition and it comes this criticism as president trump is about to declare an outright victory against eisel in syria but the colonel doesn't think that's the case we have a no way won the war because we lack a realistic and lasting policy and an adequate strategy how many how genes will it take to understand that we are on the wrong track colonel made those criticisms in

the national defense review which has since taken down his article and it seems that the colonel is about to face sanctions for not getting permission to publish that article before his military forces it had a chance to look at it but his testimony adds weight to what we've already heard from groups such as amnesty international and for action against armed violence has talked about the high cost of civilian casualties in syria as a result of the u.s. led coalition's actions and the way that it operates in that country now that's despite the fact that the u.s. says it doesn't target norm coleman buttons the question is now as president trump is about to. declare victory over i still it's a victory many are saying including this colonel at what cost at what cost to the people of syria. a new report from the u.k.'s house of lords has suggested 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's almost four years since war erupted in yemen and saudi arabia launched this devastating air campaign against impoverished countries who the rebels since then the u.k. sold four point seven billion dollars worth of weapons to riyadh making of the country's second biggest supplier of arms as for the british government while it continues to defend the sales and saudi arabia claims it takes all possible precautions to avoid civilian casualties political science professor we spoke to in the us told us that despite the concern expressed at the lords report there arms sales to riyadh are just too lucrative and the day for london to suspend. the u.k.

really is not interested in how much destruction is actually being of either vibrant work and really giving it to saudi arabia from the british point of view or ninety even condone the independent series on whether the weaponry is responsible for the bombings for the killing in yemen they were lying strictly on the facts and data provided to them by the current saudi arabian government the british government must realize this for the united states go. mama been saddam's war in yemen is not going to stop until both governments are all weapons to this. meantime the un has warned in recent days that yemen's humanitarian crisis is becoming increasingly severe hundreds of thousands of people in that water or

nation are reportedly at risk of starving to death a staggering eighty percent of the population are in need of aid is one harrowing story of just one yemeni girl in the pictures coming up in. the reffing. management even the retreat wouldn't have anything to feed her. palate that she's skin and that's the worst case of severe malnutrition.

child malnutrition cases are increasing not only children under five but 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 the horrible conditions live and. the plight of people in yemen this is of international the sixty minutes past one of the afternoon short break ahead when we come back the u.s. is attempting to send aid shipments to venezuela but presently there is still digging in refusing to allow it over the border bringing the latest on what could be a potential hotspot on the border there with colombia after the break. we're

witnessing something quite remarkable in the night twenty nine we're watching a country that's been in the nineteenth century bubble really for the last two hundred years they're going to crash into the twenty first century as if they're just being teleported into the twenty first thing. you know world of big. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart 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 truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

again this is about international law from mosco with the very last pocket of ice so fighters in syria facing imminent defeat the us president has called on europe to rip up trade over eight hundred of the group's militants so they can be put on trial donald trump says otherwise the extremists will be released from detention in syria the comments come as he looks to dramatically scaled back his country's involvement in the conflict egos donnel for ports. for a while it seemed the british had the whole leave or remain clash monopolised in the news which didn't last long though the americans are now somewhat piggybacking

on this leave remain rao in their own way however over troops in syria it is time to give our brave warriors in syria. a warm welcome home bring our troops home u.s. troops will be withdrawn from syria we have won against isis isis has been defeated the fight against isis and violent extremists is not over our goals are the same and we will maintain forces yet the generals who are openly grumbling about their commander in chief's order seem to be missing the point syria has become a whole potato in a game being played out in the highest echelons of power in the us and the new united states will begin to hand off the fight to our partners in the region no glory and no media friendly war victory potential just a burden so why not let others do the dirty work and tweet others and mean europe

of course europeans in turn say a they're not janet has to clean up after washington there is no prospect of british troops go in and to replace the american troops living and therefore be this is no way the us should be leaving a possible power vacuum is a stanwood is it a good idea of the americans to pull out of sea remediate lee and so swiftly doesn't it make the possibility of iran and russia increasing their influence there . how can you be very firm on iran and at the same time abandon north eastern syria like that when we know very well that might end up boosting iran's presence in the area for me it's a mystery to washington tosses the potato right back and up the stakes to not only the you should fill the void the u.s. leaves behind on the ground but also take back hundreds of nationals who once left to join i sold a trump a mystery thought he was pretty convincing openly scaremongering europe into

submission twenty fifty one hundred thirty people were killed in paris twenty sixteen eighty six killed a nice. twelve killed and christmas truck bombing in berlin twenty seventeen thirteen killed in spain so does it matter what happens over there matters he was serious it's not some dark joke senator lindsey graham spent a whole minutes meticulously going through a list of all the horrendous terrorist attacks that have left europe scarred the thought that this could have the absolute opposite of fact never crossed his mind apparently these attacks you know every people do we do way that we handle the situation there i'm not saying that this justifies the terrorist attack in the country i'm just saying that to put these attacks as an angle to

really engage militarily this is just putting more pressure on the flames and is not going to solve the problem the only thing that you're going to have by more military engagement syria is more terrorist attacks it's as simple as that. this whole roud makes one truth glaringly obvious neither trump nor europe each for reasons of their own do not want to be serious cleanup crew on or in this case has no gain so why not take credit for all that is done and run away. the u.s. is stepping up its efforts to get humanitarian aid into veliz whaler and the scent tons of food and medical supplies to the crossing stricken countries border with colombia the shipment was accompanied by an american delegation which included florida senator marco rubio he took the opportunity to to hit out at the embattled venezuelan president nicolas maduro. it's 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. this coming just days after the country's washington backed opposition leader called for an army of volunteers to head to the border to receive the aid supplies but sticking firmly president to do is because consistently said that he considers these u.s. efforts to be interference in the country's domestic affairs the out of the military to prepare for a permanent deployment of forces on the border with colombia to avoid provocations as they would and it's not him or duros got doubts about the u.s. shipments the international committee of the red cross in colombia says it has no plans to participate in any deliveries of assistance to venezuela which he claims are politically motivated the executive director of the ron paul institute denver academy has told us he thinks 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 essential what it is is a regime change operation disguised as aid and in fact that would be illegal according to international law the politicization the use of the aid dangling the crude in front of people if they overthrow their government is an absolutely cynical move which is not allowed according to international law marco rubio at the border is designed to escalate he says he's forming a lie and you know that he's engaging in a psychological operation in a covert operation and he knows that he's standing in front of the last bridge saying the door stop closing this bridge that bridge as your viewers know has never been open. meantime other elements of this story back in the u.s. the state department have restricted the travel of the venezuelan ambassador to the u.n. now it comes days after some among card accuse the u.s. of blatantly attempting to walk a straight regime change in venezuela he's now been banned from leaving new york

some carder accuse the u.s. of lying and manipulating the facts to mislead people about the true situation in his country but as well as the minister of foreign affairs has responded to it all by calling the movement restrictions an attack on freedom of speech della mcadams again had some thoughts on that so well they do this to countries that they want to talk to target for regime change or target for punishment i think they that it did for russian diplomats in washington d.c. you remember right and they do this for other countries that are on the u.s. bad list it's just another attempt to marginalize legitimate government representatives have been as well it 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. a so things look in so far from r.t. this monday thanks ever so much for watching it's just coming up to one twenty six in the afternoon money as kevin owen off for the day you can see for the coming hours or so again tomorrow maybe the title comes out all the news you see here and

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be speaking to get off of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. welcome to so think oh i'm sophia shevardnadze they say a picture is worth one thousand words and that's probably twice the case for works of war photographers as their costs are says to find in tragedy captured by a camera lens while i ask the ryan miller who documented the wars in iraq afghanistan and many other places. always in the city of it but never in the fray always a witness never a participant wolf it's all give us don't take sides but the pictures and photos of

tragedies really help prevent them or do they only make people aware and do images of conflict really reflect reality. zariah miller award winning photographer who put himself in the line of danger to document wars in iraq afghanistan gaza welcome to the show it's great to have you with us can't wait to talk to you so zoraida you say that you always are brass to portray is a reality of what you see are you remaining an impartial observer of the advanced you are shooting. yeah i think impartial is something every journalist strives for it doesn't mean that i'm not emotionally invested in what i photograph obviously i am a human being and i have opinions on what i see and i have opinions on what is right and what is wrong and injustice and i'll obviously try everything i can

to you know bring injustice to light and you know i suppose my definition of injustice is my own personal opinion so you know i am impartial but i do have feelings and i do. follow those feelings and i hope to try to portray them in the photographs that i capture i suppose i suppose what you're saying bring your personal opinion are the key words this personality hinder you in telling a story as truthfully as you can see dad in a way no i mean i think that's one of the common misconceptions in journalism is that having feelings and having emotions and caring about a story is going to hinder your ability to capture that story or make you impartial i think you have to have feelings especially for this type of photography i mean when you're you know when you're with the family after they've lost a loved one or.