well. a senior french officer could be set to face punishment after he pens a critique of the u.s. led coalition's campaign against islamic state in the. u.k. behind a significant number of civilian deaths in yemen

a new horse of lords report suggesting just having weapons sales to saudi arabia could be in violation of international. treaty wouldn't have anything to she's skin and that's the worst case of severe malnutrition. live from moscow to the world this is your arch international good to have your company i'm a. top story. berlin based media company facebook accusing the platform of precedented censorship for the social networking giant suspended a number of media pages which produces online shows one of which is in the with the video content few tens of millions of times all not platforms well the move coincided with a c.n.n. report claiming muffet was deliberately trying to hide its ties to the russian

government kevin on the scots the controversy with correspondent. 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 math makes 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 pages shouldn't be misled about who's behind them just as we've stepped up our enforcement of coordinated in authentic behavior and financially motivated spam over the past year will continue improving so people can get more information about the pages they phone 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 that 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 moffat they're always informed about the parent company so that they're always aware. or 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 another 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 boluses 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 history over russia you know has made a good headline and in the who when this first was at c.n.n. 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 on marketing media who said their pages were shut down without warning. 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 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 secret even done a wrong by not having that information on the page with 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. or arties editor in chief margarita simonyan responded to the scandal by accusing c.n.n. of shamelessly acting in washington's interest. salem which ignored us c.n.n. is once again acting as the right hand left or even leg 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 but c.n.n. election 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 in the election interference and suppressing democracy in the u.s. that it immediately deletes no counter had four 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 that there's 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 but that's exactly what's happening now. well r.t. has contacted a number of news freedom organizations we will of course 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 he believes facebook is clearly guilty of double standards. so anything that the russians 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 the likes of ala what about the b.b.c. what about al-jazeera what about françois i mean all of these are getting funded by . 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 two. officially designated enemies are up to no good will moscow has weighed in on the issue calling online pressure against russia from so called on neighborly countries nothing new. really new owners the young covered rule pressure on the russian media has its effect you could 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 neighboring countries we faced it many times it all leads to a loss of confidence and seriously damages begin respected international companies

in this particular case i won't get ahead of myself we need an explanation first r.t. should protect his interests and find out the reason behind this we've managed to stand up for our rights many times before and i hope this time won't be any different we should be able to manage this again you know the suspensions have also drawn sharp criticism from glenn greenwald a journalist best known for his revelations a bind us and u.k. surveillance programs he accuses facebook c.n.n. the marshall fund of selective censorship while my experimental from real news media to list he believes the social media behemoths has increasingly working in concert with the us 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 said at best a geisha at the urging. of a group that is actually funded by the u.s. 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. well facebook is also facing pressure from the british parliament a dumbing report from the house of lords accuses facebook of failing to protect its users from data breaches as well as from alleged russian this information reporting from westminster here's a list of features. well facebook is under fire following

a damning over one hundred page report following eighteen months of work by a u.k. parliamentary committee now this is a report that looks at a handful of issues including alleged foreign and russian interference in the elections but it's really facebook that gets a mouthful in this particular case from u.k. lawmakers described as a digital gangster that's ahead of and beyond the law it's accused of misleading parliament treating it with content and quote intentionally and knowingly violating 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 out. we share the committee's concerns about fox news and election integrity and our police have made a significant contribution to their investigation over the past eighteen months on three 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 elec torah 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 take 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 be any different you know britain could be complicit in yemen's humanitarian disaster by selling weapons to the saudis that's according to its own parliament and it's among our stories after this short of the brics.

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your back with our t. international a prominent french military officer who helped coordinate the fights against this law make 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 here's our parse correspondent charlotte devinsky . 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 victory over i still it's a victory many is saying including this colonel at what cost at what cost to the people of syria. another update on a story we've been closely following for quite some time a new report from the u.k.'s heise of the lord 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 documents seized that britain should be prepared to suspend some of its weapons exports as they may violate

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 while it is almost four years since war erupted in yemen and saudi arabia launched its devastating our campaign against the impoverished countries who revel 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 in political science professor we spoke to told us that the spike the concern expressed in the lowers report arms sales to riyadh are just too lucrative for london to suspend. the u.k. . is not interested in how much destruction is actually being of

either by going to work and really giving to saudi arabia from the british one of. the ninety even condone the independent cynics on whether their weaponry is responsible for the bombings for the killing in there or lying strictly on the facts and data provided to them by the current saudi arabian government the british government most realize the united states go for a long. war in yemen is not going to stop until both governments all weapons do this. meanwhile and this is an important aspect as well the un has warned in recent days that yemen's humanitarian crisis is becoming increasingly severe the numbers they're giving are quite startling hundreds of thousands of people are now reportedly at risk of starving to death and

a staggering eighty percent of the population are in need of aid here is the harling story we heard from one yemeni girl a warning you may find it upsetting. management even to retreat would it have anything to feed her. that she's skin and that's the worst case of severe malnutrition. we're a. child malnutrition cases are increasing not only

children under five but mothers suffer from malnutrition and their babies will too . none of that in a fellow can do is keep trying to care for her but she will be starving again in the game because in horrible conditions lives and. well lobbies are monday afternoon news round up for now but why not stick around for some more great programs they started moments this is your r.t. . when lawmakers manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the

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more violent there was a phone call that was intercepted was a call between the assistant secretary of state for european affairs victoria nuland and the u.s. ambassador to ukraine geoffrey pyatt questions of credibility are being raised after a private chat between two top u.s. diplomat was leaked online i think he says the guy who's got the economic experience the governing experience he's faced the good you know what he need to screech in tiny book on the outside i just think it's going in he's going to be at that level working for yatsenyuk it's just not going to work. and i think that's right. good well you want to try to set up a call it sounds as though let's just sell it and come back to me for saying you need biden and i said probably tomorrow for an attaboy in the get the deeds to stick by this willing she had this remarkable phone call. to senior officials of the u.s. government apparently talking about a coup or how they were playing to restructure the government of ukraine.