well. precedented discrimination. pages of several high. art. projects. in the. french military could be said to face punishment. critique of the u.s. led coalition's campaign against islamic state in syria. and the new report from the u.k. . significant numbers

of civilian deaths in yemen may violate international humanitarian. relief. would have anything to. that's the worst case of severe malnutrition. on two pm here in moscow this monday. and welcome to the program wherever you may be tuning in from. our top story a media company behind several successful online news projects has hit a facebook accusing the platform of on precedented censorship for the social networking giant suspended a number of mafeking media is pages including one called in the night which produces the video content the move coincided with a c.n.n. report claiming was deliberately trying to hide its ties to the russian government

kept in on the sky the controversy earlier with. the problem is that on math fix 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 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 set 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 as 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 online for instance money comes from russia but pretty much no one

knows that and whenever someone gets employed by ma fake they're always informed about the. and 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 and in the who when this first was at c.n.n. they're 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 leave a train going kevin owen there will have an also spoke to the chief of operations on marketing at mafeking media j. ray sparks he ses facebook has never required pages to display information about their sources of funding. 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 the 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 whether it's singling out state funded media categorically and making r t as well as b.b.c. a.b.c. c.n.n. and everyone else state the entirety of their funding source it's on their facebook pages. you said you didn't know you'll be saying you were warned of this before they took the pages all. these rules you know what you said the way this was this

was a complete reaction and a reactionary. move by facebook in response to see in leading them to believe that there was some kind of. done a wrong by not having that information on the page where the rules for how he's a loser you know i'd absolutely not ok no no no no no no 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 and 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. well the russian president spokes person to bring her purse health has also weighed in on the issue saying it's crucial for this channel to hold facebook to account artie's

editor in chief margarita simonyan has responded to the scandal to accusing c.n.n. of shamelessly acting in washington's interests. c.n.n. which ignored us c.n.n. is once again acting as the right hand to even lead 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 hit from a foundation financed by nato and the state department c n n literally forced facebook to delete our accounts but facebook in this could have refused facebook is so scared of being once again accused of helping the russians in the election interference and suppressing democracy in the u.s. that it immediately delete an account to have four million subscribers and two point five billion views no complaints against the video itself and the content on the whole were made by three spoke when c.n.n. called and said how can you let those russians talk to our people facebook 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 space is loved by many and are made into real tools i don't know whether they were set up for this that's exactly what's happening now. but r.t. has requested comment from a number of press freedom organizations we will let you know when they get back to us we've also spoken to a senior researcher from london metropolitan university global policy institute about the measures now he told us that facebook in his view is guilty of clear double standards. so anything that the russians have 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 francois i mean all of these are getting funded by governments but it's the same thing applies when facebook every few weeks announces where they've closed seven hundred thousand accounts that they can say are fake accounts because they are really russians or rain ians you know no no one knows these things no one knows who and what these accounts are but it keeps the story going that the russians are the rainy and two. officially designated enemies are up to no good. committing on to more world news this monday a prominent french military officer who helped coordinate the fight against the islamic state in syria could be sent to face punishment after he published a devastating critique of the u.s. led coalition's terror tactics chart a dupe and scheme reports. damning criticism from

a senior french military official this is the guy in charge of french artillery aiding 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 won 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 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 this victory over i still it's a victory many is saying including this colonel at what cost at what cost for the people of syria. and other significant story coming today a new report from the u.k.'s house of lords has suggested the country is responsible for quote a significant number of civilian deaths in yemen us a result of its arms sales to saudi arabia the documents 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 just of the boxer and on this is almost four years since war up than yemen and saudi arabia launched its devastating her campaign against the impoverished countries who see rebels

since then the u.k. has sold four point seven billion dollars worth of weapons to riyadh making it the country's second biggest supplier of arms the british government continues to defend the seals on saudi arabia claims it takes all possible precautions to avoid civilian casualties a political science professor we spoke to in the us told us that the spike the concern expressed in the words reports arms sales to riyadh are just too lucrative for london to suspend. the u.k. government apparently is not interested in how much destruction is actually being. either by british work and really given to saudi arabia from the british one of the early ninety's even conduct the independent feelings on whether their 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 corrupt saudi arabian government the british government most realize the united states go for

a lot of that bombing been so on the war in the middle is not going to stop until both governments pull out all weapons to this. meanwhile just over the last number of days the u.s. has warned that yemen's humanitarian crisis is becoming increasingly severe hundreds of thousands of people are now reportedly at risk of starving to death and i start going eighty percent of the population are in need of eight here's the harling story of one yemeni girl warning you may find it upsetting. and it will even demetrius wouldn't have anything to feed her.

the. talent that she has skin in the balance that's the worst case of severe malnutrition and. child malnutrition cases are increasing but 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 and that she will be starving again and again because the horrible conditions live and. the u.s. is attempting to send aid shipments to venice wheeler but president maduro is

refusing to allow it across the border over it in beijing fears that some longer stories after the break. when almost seemed wrong. just don't hold. me. to shape out these days become active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. where we're the same something quite remarkable in that night twenty nineteen we're watching a country britain testbed in the nineteenth century bubble really for. two hundred

years they're going to crash into the twenty first century as if they're just being teleported into the twenty first. nineteen minutes into the program welcome back with the very last pocket of fighters in syria facing imminent defeat the us president has called on europe to repulse over eight hundred of the group's militants so that they can be put on trial otherwise donald trump say's the extremists will be released from the tension in syria the comments come as he looks to dramatically scale back his country's involvement in the conflict or said on a first 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 raul 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 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 syria nudity 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 of 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 he'll yeah it matters he was serious it's not some dark joke senator lindsey graham spent a whole minutes meticulously go through a list of all the horrendous terrorist attacks that have left europe scarred the thought that this could have the absolute opposite of never crossed his mind apparently these attacks. every do we do way that we handle

this situation but i'm not saying that this justifies respect in the company i'm just saying that to put these acts as an arm to really engage militarily this is just putting more pressure on the flames and is not going to sort of the only thing that you can have by more military engagement syria is more terrorist attacks it's a simple as that. this whole route 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. meanwhile the u.s. is stepping up efforts to get humanitarian aid into venice we sent tons of food and medicine to the crisis tricking countries border with colombia now an american

delegation which includes florida senator marco rubio accompanied the latest we have off supplies to the border he took the opportunity to hit 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 your government. well it all comes days after the country's washington backed opposition leader one glide to call for an army of volunteers to head to the border to receive the aid supplies but president maduro has consistently said that he considers u.s. efforts to be interference in the country's domestic affairs he ordered the military to prepare for a permanent deployment of forces on the border with colombia to avoid provocations and it's not only material who has died it's about the u.s.

shipments the international committee of the red cross in colombia sees it has no plans to participate and they need to live resolve assistance to venezuela which it claims are politically motivated the executive director of the ron paul institute daniel mccallum's believes it's all part of a concerted u.s. effort to topple the government while 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 just centrally what it is is a regime change operation disguised as aid and in fact that would be illegal according to international law the politicisation the use of 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's he's forwarding a lie and he knows that using gaging in a psychological operation in

a covert operation and he knows that he's standing in front of the last one to toss a bridge saying the door oh stop closing this bridge that bridge as your viewers know has never been opened. and there is another aspect to this story back in the u.s. the state department has restricted the travel of tennis will as u.n. ambassador that comes days after some real money counter accuse the u.s. of blatantly attempting to organize. in his country he's banned from leaving new york well mr monk out of accuse the u.s. of lying and manipulating the fox to mislead people about the true situation in the country the venezuelan foreign minister branded the movement restrictions on attack on freedom of speech doesn't make out them so again told us his view. while they do this to countries that they want to talk to target for regime change or target for punishment i think they think it did for 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 lives is the most this is the most you've got to hand it to this is the most transparent and overtly explained regime change in history. all right it's a packed to the rafters going underground next we go to london to option on guests in that moment this is twenty four seven artie. is the u.s. lead kook against a legitimate government in venezuela faltering also as russia turkey and iran search for peace in syria washington beats the drums of war against iran and much much more on this edition of trust. in a world of big part of the lot 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 smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad 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. in twenty four to you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still or here. with video a clue in the new bill is that i believe it or the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took part in this today over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure

a secure and prosperous and democratic. we're going underground nine years to the day we released classified u.s. cables revealing the scope of washington war crimes coming up in the show is this the only way to avoid world war three ahead of next week's trump talks in vietnam we speak to the man just norman aided by congressman to be this year's nobel peace prize winner a work in north korea and after proof that the venezuelan a bridge picture is fake we look at elite media manufacturing consent and the corporations that benefit from it says u.k. welfare workers threatened strike action because of austerity we also can you are a scientist how eight years of tory economic policy has changed how we view the

poorest in society all the simple growing up in today's going on to grab a fest rate to next week's trump kim jong un talks in vietnam billed as reducing the chances of a third world war britain's labor prime minister clement attlee infamously allowed us bombers with atomic weapons to be stationed in britain and between winston churchill unary truman a third of the population of north korea was killed donald trump is arguably changed all that opening unprecedented levels of communication with pyongyang joining me now is a politician or nature by members of the u.s. congress for this year's nobel peace prize and it's not donald trump he served as president obama's calmest secretary and bill clinton's u.s. ambassador to the u.n. as well as energy secretary the former governor of new mexico bill richardson joins me now from santa fe bill thanks for coming back on the show congratulations first me on that nobel peace prize nomination for the work on north korea any members of congress tip you off about the nomination well twenty five members of congress four senators submitted it and i was very honored obviously.