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well. dented discrimination faced. the pages of several. news projects without warning. coming up a senior french. face punishment. in syria. the new report from the u.k.'s house of lords suggests that weapons.
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significant numbers. in yemen on may violate international. treaty wouldn't have anything to. that's the worst case of severe malnutrition. around the clock across the world. r.t. international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome to our top story. a media company behind several successful online news projects has hit facebook accusing the platform of on precedented censorship well lotsof through the social networking giant suspended a number of media as pages including one called in the now which produces a snappy video content the move coincided with a c.n.n.
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report claiming muffet was deliberately trying to hide its ties to the russian government kevin on the scuffs the controversy with our correspondent elizabeth cohen here. 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
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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 connected with budgets shouldn't be misled to buy out 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 such 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
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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 that 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.
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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 patriotic 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 assad to ship in a desperate attempt to milk ratings by still going to his theory over russia you know as well as a good headline didn't it when this first was at c.n.n.
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and not really the first ones to bring this up were 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. going kevin zero in their will kevin also spoke to the chief of operations and marketing and media who say yes 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 a ties with facebook because they're in a tough position needing to respond quickly to any kinds of these reports however
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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
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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 you done a wrong by not having that information on the page with the rules for how does a little 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. editor in chief margarita simonyan has responded to the scandal accusing c.n.n. of shamelessly acting in washington's interest. salem which ignored us c.n.n.
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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 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 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 have 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 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
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even trying to believe in any freedom or even talk about it it is an open geo political confrontation in which media spaces are loved by many and are made into real tool use 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's global policy institute about the measures that he is of the few that facebook is guilty of clear double standards. 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 pretexts such as oh they haven't disclosed that they're funded by russia what about dioxin vella what about the b.b.c. what about al-jazeera what about france one i mean all of these are getting funded
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by governments but it's the same thing applies when facebook every few weeks announces where they have 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 are the rainy and to. officially designated enemies are up to no good or moscow has weighed in on the issue calling on line pressure from russia from so-called on neighborly countries nothing new to us to really new knowledge the young covered rule pressure on the russian media has its effect because it's no secret that unfortunately many big companies that provide social media and other media services are used as instruments to apply pressure on russian media that's coming from governments of unneighborly countries we faced it many
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times it all leads to a loss of confidence and seriously damages big and respected international companies in this particular case i won't get ahead of myself which we need an explanation first should protect his interests and find out the reason behind this we've managed to stand up for our rights many times before but you and i hope this time when be any different we should be able to manage this again. this is spent have also drawn sharp criticism from glenn greenwald a journalist best known for his revelations about u.s. and u.k. surveillance programs he accuses facebook c.n.n. and the marshall fund of selective censorship. from real news media told us he believes the social media behemoth 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
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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 investigation at the urging. of a group that is actually funded by the us government last year my colleague jeff sprague of the gray 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 years 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. facebook has failed i need to bring in so ses british lawmakers who have accused mark zuckerberg of sitting by idly on the issue of political advertising while our
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correspondent on the city of turkey has been following this story for us in london and this is nothing new this kind of pressure between parliamentarians in london mark zuckerberg how significant though is this report. well you know this report is a result of eighteen months of work carried out by this u.k. parliamentary committee and indeed facebook is really under fire in this damning report that's over one hundred pages long we have to be clear that it covers lots of lots of different issues including foreign and russian interference in elections but it really is facebook that gets a mouthful from u.k. lawmakers this time around with its facebook is described as a quote digital gangster ahead of and beyond the law that according to this report misled parliament in some instances treated with contempt and quote intentionally
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and knowingly violated the data privacy and competition laws and more facebook continues to choose profit over data security taking risks in order to prioritize their aim of making money from user data it seems clear to us that facebook acts only when serious breaches become public. and making it even more personal here is what the committee chair had to say on mark zuckerberg specifically. mark zuckerberg continually fails to show the levels of leadership and personal responsibility that should be expected from someone who sits at the top of one of the world's biggest companies well zuckerberg despite refusing to appear in front of this committee as many as three times really infuriating them for refusing to show up. basically respond via facebook statement saying that they believe they have contributed enough to the work that the committee was carrying
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out. we share the committee's concerns about fox news and election integrity and are pleased to have made a significant contribution to their investigation over the past eighteen months on trying more than seven hundred questions and with four of our most senior executives giving evidence. well accusations are very well but in terms of what specifically this committee now wants is a code of ethics to be introduced as well as a possible legal action in case of breach of that code they want a reform of electoral laws in the u.k. and these platforms such as facebook being forced to take down dissent from asian and harmful content as well as having to t. to pay taxes in the u.k. and well now it has to be said that this committee before has previously been unhappy with not enough reaction and action from the u.k. government following their suggestions we'll have to wait and see if this time will
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be any different live from london or teaser on the sea of thanks for the up to. two other world news this hour a prominent french military officer who helped coordinate the fight against islamic state in syria could be set to face punishment after he published a startling critique of the u.s. led coalition's on terror tactics surely you can ski as more. 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
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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 however rained down in those attacks led 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
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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 battens 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 still to come this hour the venezuelan president fears history repeating itself as the u.s. attempts to supply his troubled nation with aid but memories of previous luck in american attempts linger longer stories after this.
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you're back with r t international now a new report from the u. case haas of lords suggested the country is responsible for a quote significant number of civilian deaths in yemen as a result of its arms sales to saudi arabia the documents say is 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. well it is close to four since war erupted in yemen and saudi arabia launched its devastating
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a campaign against the impoverished countries rebel 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 and saudi arabia claims it takes all possible precautions to avoid civilian casualties a political science professor we spoke to in the u.s. the spite the concern expressed in the words report arms sales to riyadh are just too lucrative for london to suspend. the u.k. only it's not interested in how much is actually being. either by british weaponry given to saudi arabia from the british want to. be independent on whether their weaponry is. for the bombing. in yemen they were lying strictly on the data provided
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by the saudi arabian government the british government most realize. that. war in the middle is not going to stop and both go. all weapons to this. meanwhile the un has warned in recent days that yemen's humanitarian crisis is becoming increasingly severe hundreds of thousands of people are now reportedly at risk of starving to death on a staggering eighty percent of the population are in need of eight you're still harping story of one young yemeni girl and one he may find upsetting. many leaving to retrieve would it have anything to feed her.
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here. that she 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 a fellow can do is keep trying to care for her and that she will be starving again in the back because of horrible conditions limited and.
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ok to on going story here in the program the u.s. is stepping up its efforts to get humanitarian aid into venice where less sending tons of food and medicine as well to the crisis stricken country's border with colombia now an american delegation which includes florida senator marco rubio accompanied the latest wave of supplies to the front here he took the opportunity to head out south the embattled venezuelan president nicolas maduro everyman the enduros regime is not a government it is a mafia it is an organized crime syndicate similar to the mafia's 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. well that comes days after the country's washington backed up. you know one quite old call for an army of volunteers to head to the border to
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receive the aid supplies but president and euro has consistently stated he considers the u.s. efforts to be interference in his country's domestic affairs and he has also ordered the military to prepare for a permanent deployment of forces on the border with colombia to avoid provocations and it is not only material who has died it's about the u.s. shipments the international committee of the red cross in colombia say as it has 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 down the mccallum's believes it's all part of a concerted u.s. effort to topple the maturer 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 a 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 the aid dangling the
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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 forming 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 bridge a saying with stop closing this bridge that bridge as your viewers know has never been opened. well that is our monday afternoon news run for an hour from moscow but next cross-talk gaze on the u.s. led crews against the government in venezuela is it advancing or is it faltering peter unguessed debates.
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in twenty four to you know bloody revolution to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just the lawyer here i mean your list book that you would put him in the. school in the middle of 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. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sport business i'm show business i'll see you then.
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hello and welcome to cross all things considered i'm peter lavelle is the u.s. led 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 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 the of the center of political.

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