well we do some our. facebook pages of several highly successful art. projects without warning we find out what could be behind the move. from british lawmakers accuse facebook failing to regulate. and leaving people open to online data breaches. urges military to rise up against president maduro and says the u.s. is keeping all options on the table. the u.s.

led campaign against islamic state in syria. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is. certainly glad to have you with us. based media company has hit out at facebook accusing the platform of unprecedented censorship that is after they suspended a number of media's pages which produces online shows and which c.n.n. is accusing of a deliberate attempt to hide ties to russia one of those shows is in the now viewed over two and a half billion times on the social network a producer and a presenter filmed this message for facebook. what i would say to you is i understand that you're under in then pressure from various forces to suppress this or that content based on political reasoning but do not succumb to censorship do

not succumb to complying with various government funded outfits regardless of what government they're funded by to censor let your users decide what's good and what's bad. well there my colleagues you know neal and illegal to try and go discussed why i'm afraid the media is under such scrutiny. it began with c.n.n. shedding light on the fact that a number of media pages with posts of snappy videos have links to russia but what people watching these videos may not realize is that the russian government is paying for this soapbox wasted that them are three new facebook pages and all part of a growing brand of russian backed influence campaigns maffet runs for pages they are indeed very popular with billions of views as their creators are saying but it wasn't indicated on the pages themselves where their money came from and so just as

the c.n.n. came out with their bombshell report as they're calling it the magic steam notice that their pages were being blocked even though there is no such rule that makes revealing the funding a must i've spoken to the math and she told me what she believes could be behind this kind of unprecedented punishment by the social network there's a very sensitive divisive. noxious policy taking place right now in terms of venezuela we don't know if this is the segment that triggered it the timing is convenient when someone calls out what's happening in venezuela as a blatant coup it ruffles the wrong feathers ruffled the feathers of think tanks that spend millions and millions if not billions of dollars to persuade. and to lobby their interests and so when someone does

a video that goes against that and that video is gets hundreds of thousands of views on a platform that has millions of views people start to notice and they get upset and i believe that's why we were targeted but it was the question is here how does my fake at any point attempted to hide information about its links about its shareholders even well let's just make it clear math. it does get some of its funding from the russian government and it is partially owned by an r.t.a. subsidiary but they were never trying to hide this in fact when they employ someone they always tell them everything about the parent companies so that people know who they work for and the companies officially registered in germany so anyone can check out the company registry there and find out all the necessary information where the owners the founders are the funding where it comes from it said well going back to what facebook did to match fake you'd expect the social network to

come up with some sort of warning before taking the pages down well none of this happened and here's what else we heard from someone else from management 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 c.n.n. we're the first ones to start digging into fakes links to russia germany's marshall fund got involved first which drew the attention of the likes of glenn greenwald the journalist was disturbed by what he called a trio that could have been behind this kind of censorship so not bloggers and journalists were impressed by how facebook was dealing with the situation and by

how c.n.n. was spinning it the 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 and when you put you put up a video i didn't know that because we have lots of different funders at this show we have over three thousand people who voted us through patriotic we have probably another couple thousand people through pay pal so we have a lot of people that fund our show do have to name every one of them every time i put up a video so quite a few people in the online community and the journalist community have something to say about this however when it comes to facebook the math fix team hasn't heard from them yet even though they sent out numerous appeals the president of the international federation of journalists has described facebook's move as an act of censorship cruising a facebook account to any internet link from the media without warning could be

considered does not have censorship that goes by that i have j. r g contacted several press freedom organizations we are waiting to hear back from them now while journalist martin summers believes facebook has overstepped is boundaries. censorship by any of the name there's been never any secret about these online videos source all or who's putting them up there or why you either do you have the same rules for everybody or you basically pick and choose what you want people to see and hear and i think there is a question whether facebook should have the power to decide what people see and hear i mean the theory beyond the internet was if more people wanted to see something than they should be allowed to see it and the of the when you do internet searches the things that come up when you put a question in he's supposed to find the thing that most people are looking at but of course they've now started talking about changing the algorithms by which they do this to try and pick and choose what people should and shouldn't see which is of

course a break with the way the internet supposed to operate and it's largely because what happens in that circumstance is that governments like the u.s. government in this case simply can't control the narrative in the way they used to before the internet came along and they're getting worried about that and they're trying to trying to stop it facebook is also facing pressure from the british parliament a report from the house of commons accuses facebook of failing to protect its users from data breaches as well as from alleged russian descent from a ship and he's honest as he took no reports now from one. 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 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 string 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 for mission 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. president trump has said the u.s. is keeping all options on the table to bring about a power transition in venezuela trump gave a speech in miami to a crowd including many venezuelan americans. we seek a peaceful transition of power. but all options are oh. well once again president trump doesn't rule out any possible action for venezuela and while he says the united states seeks a peaceful resolution people hinted that the military option is a possibility if then this way then president nicolas maduro does not step down willingly trump called on the venezuelan military figures to accept amnesty from quango i don't know saying that if they don't then they will lose everything now up to this point the venezuelan military officers continue largely to support the elected president nicolas maduro trump says that they are risking their future and

their lives and called on them to not make obstacles in delivering what he says is humanitarian aid credibly there are members of the venezuelan military. still barely supporting. this found dictatorship. they are risking their future. they're risking their lives you must not follow the duras orders to block humanitarian aid now many are questioning if this is humanitarian aid at all including the international committee of the red cross who spokes person in colombia said it is quote not humanitarian aid and in the past days the u.s. military has brought shipments through the venezuelan border in cuckoo talk colombia and actually the billionaire richard branson has announced he will be staging a concert to pressure nicolas maduro to open the border to this so-called aid

earlier today the venezuelan government announced it will be holding its own concert on the border and said it wants to deliver aid packages to the people of kuku talk colombia now the international community has been split since one guy doe's declaration that he is the president of venezuela the united states the european union and many latin american countries have recognized wonder why go but china russia nearly all of africa and the caribbean countries are maintaining that my duro is the president so this diplomatic standoff continues as president trump hints at military action. in cross live now to gloria la riva from the cuban venezuelan solidarity committee thanks for being with us here on r.t. international. so. trump said all options are still on the table for venezuela is the u.s. looking for intervention is intervention increasingly likely.

well the cuban government has issued a statement that they have proof the u.s. military flights are landing in panama dominican republic and very nearby islands to the coast of venezuela it's very threatening in addition a brazilian commander has joined the. southern command of the united states in an unusual move and of course the u.s. has many military bases in colombia but what trump did tonight is an absolute outrage to be surrounded by extreme right wingers from venice well and. issuing a message i think that he hopes will be his campaign message he did it last time against the mexicans this time it's against socialism he's targeting we've got our cuba and venezuela. but here in the i am here in the country of venice well it's

very peaceful people it's everything is normal i've been here twelve times it's nothing changed but i think that message to the u.s. it's one of pure terror and yet i was on the. you know i was a suicide truck called on the venezuelan military to overthrow doro saying that they are risking their future by supporting the government. in europe is saying that things on the ground there are peaceful do you think that the military will listen do you think that the people will listen. the military is solidly with the we don't know when you look at the history of venice wales military after the coup and even before that because chavez was organizing a large group of officers high ranking officers and high achieving our series in their academies around the same generation as chavis and they were the ones who took on the dictatorship of godless and status so they have been loyal to him ever

since and those military commanders all the different branches have now created a whole new generation of military leaders who are training the hundreds of thousands of units as well as civilian militia i was in the outskirts of got back its make and where we saw the community people organized as militias and of course president has called for the creation of two million militia members by me. so the country is organized but i think what the u.s. has to do you see they can't talk directly about what war is really about on their side they have to say to the humanitarian crisis well i was in yugoslavia for ten days during the bombing that wasn't humanitarian it talk about humanitarianism in libya the country is destroyed now it's a cover for imperialist adventure and for oil the largest reserves of oil in the world are in that this well and so if you look at venezuela itself from

a duro is accused of. what was called on the door government rather to stop blocking u.s. aid to venezuela saying that they're putting the people's lives in danger. is it fair to say that the people are suffering at the hands of manure. no in fact it's the us that causing the suffering of the venice our people like they've done to the people of cuba nobody can deny that one hundred eighty nine countries last year voted for the us to end the blockade of sixty years on cuba where they're doing now to venice well it's similar i was again at the outskirts of get out we saw the butte food distribution system a collapse it's a matter of economic resistance to be hoarding of the corporations here the u.s. sanctions the u.s. is causing tens of billions of dollars of loss to venice well it's economy and they're offering twenty million in crumbs it is a trojan horse it's

a classic trojan horse to find an excuse to in invade the country through different means and the people reject that entirely here the u.s. is creating. a serious howard k. situation on the border with god alone b.-a. and there are contending forces but the side of the right and and peace is on the side of the fairness there were people indeed that's why people here are signing by the thousands for pete's all right fortunately we've run out of time gloria law revoked from the cuban venezuelan solidarity committee thanks for helping us get a picture of what it's like there on the ground in venezuela thank you very much all right more news after a short break this is art international. job

of journalists photojournalists any type of videographers writing journalists is their job it's much more dangerous every year because so many people now see what we do is threats you know threats to whatever their narrative is whatever the propaganda is and you know the like anything. in our culture in the iraq and afghanistan wars had to be sold to the american people. we're witnessing something quite remarkable in the one twenty nineteen we're watching a country that's been in the nineteenth century a 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 century.

this is our t. international so a prominent french military officer who helped coordinate of 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 anti terror attacks here is our paris correspondent. 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 are saying including this colonel what cost at what cost to the people of syria. the chairman of the u.s. house intelligence committee has claimed there is compelling evidence that donald trump colluded with russia in the run up to the two thousand and sixteen presidential election but adam schiff went on to say there may not be enough proof

for a conviction but you can see the evidence plain sight on the issue of collusion pretty compelling evidence now there's a difference between seeing evidence of collusion and being able to prove a criminal conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt. a day earlier the u.s. president lashed out at the russia collusion probe led by special counsel robert muller trump called it conflicted illegal and a rigged the investigation has been running since may two thousand and seventeen although so far no evidence has been produced linking the kremlin to the trump election campaign as the investigation is still ongoing we can now bring in former u.s. congressman michael patrick flanagan thanks for being with us here on our to international this is a. heavy one to unwrap but as we just heard adam schiff said that the molar probe may not be able to prove a criminal conspiracy beyond reasonable doubt is this the start of a climb down. oh i think he's he's never going to class i don't know what the

what's in the water in california but these he's he's been drinking that have really. the senate wrapped up their investigation and said there's nothing to see here move along and even the senator warner the democrat on the committee said well you know wouldn't put it that strongly but he had nothing to offer either there is no collusion there is nothing to see moving right along moeller is about to wind up he's going to recommend nothing no one thinks he's going to recommend anything and no one know it was but no one thinks he's going to recommend anything he's done all of the. convictions or prosecutions he cares to do i don't think there's even any more coming they're going to work out with stone corsi in a few others and then they're going to be done shift sees this is an election opportunity not as a fact finding one and he wants to make sure that a democrat is in the white house next year and that the democrats retain control of both houses of card game control both houses and retain control of the house of

representatives he's not interested in finding the facts he's interested in winning an election and so he's going to tell you there's no collusion but it's obvious there is collusion we'll just have to live with the fact that it's not enough collusion to prosecute anybody but it's enough to. witness that it's their course he doesn't tell you what it is but but he does observe that it's there whatever whatever it is that's why i get questioned the quality of water california i just don't know what he's drinking so the molar probe has been running for almost two years now it is not by any stretch of imagination. as long as other probes have been in the past but people are wanting results in their wanting them quickly when do you think that we're going to see these results. so i think quite soon i think the probe is going to wind up very soon i had the opportunity to to go in with someone who is being questioned by the motor commission as hundreds of people are last week to act this is council and to listen to the questions they were asked it

was all very civil it was all very focused it was all very capable and it had it smacked of we're winding down i have some follow up questions that i have to to put together to cross every t. and dot every i in our report get it done. in when we left they said are we done now i said yes where we are finished with this with this testify or at least so my point is that i believe the commission is very close to finishing and interestingly the report need not be public through the rose his report to the department of justice and justice doesn't have to publish it doesn't have to talk about it i think everyone will but the point is that this is not some sort of big public thing that's coming it could be quite private and exposed to congress and elsewhere all right michael patrick fine again former u.s. congressman you can help provide some interesting insight on this interesting to hear thoughts in from the international. our you are watching art international be

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road like anything in our culture is in iraq and afghanistan wars had to be sold to the american people. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered peter lavelle is the us led to against a legitimate government in venezuela faltering also as russia turkey and iran's search for peace in syria washington beats the drums of war against a rant and much much more on this edition of crossfire.

cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow exhibit a moreau he is that a pound or of the center of political strategic analysis strat but we also have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst with international and in london we crossed alexander me curious he is the editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate look at let me go to alexander material in and london here i remember the days the years ago when the u.s. led to against chile was in progress and nixon asked kissinger to make sure that the economy there would scream is that the same game plan that we have here with venezuela because it seems like the shock and awe of regime change is spent and now we're going into a different frame phase of this force regime change in caracas go ahead in london i think you are yet to answer your question i think that is exactly what. the

intention. was to provoke action by the military in.