i. like that international headline for us this morning an act of solace a ship the head of the international federation of journalists lambaste facebook's decision to suspend several r.t. linked accounts will bring us the aftermath of that as the dust is almost certainly also. dismay in the u.s. as it's revealed that a compensation fund for the victims of the nine eleven terror attacks is rapidly running out of money. and donald trump's again been accused of fermenting an atmosphere of hatred in the wake of an attack on a black an openly gay activist many questioning those assault play.

over the morning is just so nonny on this tuesday morning as kevin i encourage you here at h.q. for the next thirty minutes weather updates starting with this and acts of censorship that's how the president of the international federation of journalists describes facebook's suspension of several r.t. affiliated accounts made big news friday on friday the social networking giant block four pages belonging to math inc media which produces online news and which a c.n.n. report recently suggested was attempting to conceal its ties to russia crucially here's what felipe growth had to say about the move. closing a facebook account or any internet link from the media without prior warning can be considered as an act of censorship opposed by the. of shells deeper smalling into the story and explains why facebook's critics crying foul. we had

almost four million subscribers didn't violate any fees because rules were given no warning and facebook isn't responding to us what happened was unprecedented a channel with four million subscribers billions of views blocked or for its content not for saying anything malicious or untrue or hateful but just because of its nationality russian i mean c.n.n. which was behind in the investigation that led to this said it best so great viral videos great design you know and the content was pretty critical of the u.s. government of us mainstream media but nothing that would be totally out of the ordinary necessarily a lot of legitimate arguments but as we started digging into it we did find that the company which set up these pages over the past six months was actually backed by or why are they doing that's why they voiced seeing legitimate arguments

critical of us foreign policy totally journalist the thing to do criticize and discuss stuff right this is censorship selective biased unfair prejudiced and blatant regardless of what you think of ron you call it russia or anything else this trio c.n.n. u.s. funded german marshall fund and facebook working together to selectively censor is highly disturbing that this is the inevitable outcome of breaking facebook to censor here is a taste of the u.s. media acting just like state media a buzz feed reporter calls ran a colleague's videos for russia backed in the now and to us readers because they criticize us foreign policy for example the venezuela coup attempt censorship is the most commonly used word in reactions to this ban and there have been many understand there was no warning no infraction no strikes it was it seems a police. decision naturally. paid russia critics those that have made

careers fear mongering over putin's overjoyed long pause thaw in that we started selectively babbling media who we don't agree with i have been lax this week in thinking danny for finally getting facebook to take down kremlin funded viral video propaganda garbage damn in the now news good riddance remarkable also is that facebook talked to everyone they wanted but haven't said a word reason they would justify their living to the folks they blocked facebook hasn't contacted us at all the pages were just unpublished and it had an automated button we could appeal to which we did of course we have not heard a word from facebook and it's been over three days now the suspected reason is that it didn't reveal its russian funding which no one doesn't facebook and never had to we did not violate any rules there is no rule that you have to post anything about

your funding or personal funding on facebook no one does it not any of the u.s. sponsored outlets not any of the qatari sponsored outlets no country not china not turkey not russia not the us has to put these labels are on their facebook pages there is no requirement by facebook that people disclose their funding the b.b.c. doesn't do it the c.b.c. is facebook page doesn't do it algis the rest facebook page doesn't do it it's just not standard industry practice to disclose your funding on facebook you can't help but feel for the media i know many of them to make quality stuff funny videos serious videos investigations the poor the sauls into their work only to be cost the side the winds the thesis senses personally i'm surprisingly calm because i've spent in the now as a project that. i created from scratch it's in the now because me and he's in our

way like this is my baby. i spent the last four and a half five years of my life growing this channel. the last year trying to build the team young professionals that really want to make good important content. so it's pretty big for me in terms of the broader picture it's huge oh it's huge all right the crime it appears was being too russian and this now seemingly is a crime enough to get your bad and the rich a question whether facebook should have the power to decide what people see and hear i mean the theory beyond the incident was if more people wanted to see something than we should be allowed to see it when you do internet searches and things that come up when you put a question in you're supposed to fund the thing that most people are looking at but of course if no started talking about changing the algorithms there's a lot of mass media would like to see to feast book as anger as hurt feeling of

being picked on bullied but is also understanding and a simple human plea what i would say to facebook i understand you're under incredible pressure over on camera aren't. so i would tell facebook i understand they are under incredible immense pressure by various forces. ok. this look if you're listening what i would say to you is i understand that you're under in 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 out that's regardless of what government they're funded by to censor let your users decide what's good and what's bad do not get in the in the business of dictating. what constitutes good. speech and bad speech it's

a slippery slope. and it could lead to disaster in the end what will continue to follow this story footnote for the time being anyway facebook's told russia's tass news agency that does in the process of launching an update for pages with large audiences like the woman talking about and that it wants administrators to disclose information about their funding sources is the update in addition to the international federation of journalists. also contacted several other press freedom organizations for comment we'll bring in their responses as we get them was got some reaction from ken livingstone as well the former mayor of london a political commentator he told us facebook's actions are reminiscent of cold war era censorship tactics. russia's been subjected to censorship that you my whole life i grew up during the cold war i remember that law as we were told about what was in the soviet union all the time now we're seeing the same thing basically any organization that's defending russia nicaragua venezuela iran

or turkey even is likely find what's being put out is undermine challenge and in some cases it will be suppressed i mean that's the sort of conflict that we're now in again in is as i said it's almost like we're back in another cold war anybody be broadcasting the truth about what's happening it's like you have that suppressed removed taken off. only every we've just got to carry on making sure we are able to access the truth outsells has or most of the western media we will never be told the truth. next morning this but if you're in the united states after it's been revealed that a fund established to help the victims of nine eleven is rapidly running out of money it was set up in twenty eleven to compensate the people affected by exposure to toxins at the sites of those terror attacks but his manager now says at least twenty thousand claimants will now have to have their payouts slashed we spoke to

one of them. now they're telling b.'s heroes that when. the victim sort of family members find. the rest of their not once that they don't have enough aunts to do that when they did nightly live a compensation for whose creator was for a simple reason so people will not be heard elaine in history the government or the. building tower administrators that was the only reason that make me. well a conversation fund has paid a five billion dollars to roughly twenty one thousand claimants thus far fairly easily go to billion left for the remaining twenty thousand claims plus thousands more that are expected to be made. more this morning. in a move described as devastatingly nine eleven victim compensation fund will be slashing its payout to claimants by as much as seventy percent because the cash poor is running low given the funding already expended in the increases in claim

volumes i have to terminate there is insufficient funding remaining in the fund to pay all current and projected claims at the same levels as in the current policies and procedures i'm painfully aware of the inequity of the situation fundamental just say the claims filed before february first will be paid fifty percent of their original value and any claims after that will be paid out at only thirty percent of their original value keep in mind those getting compensation are firefighters construction workers and others who are on the scene without proper protection the last survivor of the world trade center nine eleven attacks i work in the building for twenty years i know many. people will be only master key that will stop me you know i was buried on the rubble i was risk you are a fire truck just imagine that when i was spellbound billions of thousands all go through resin lights blew out and that. was in the area.

doest dispersed group these here and after. thousands of people and now what we have people have torment cancer each use and begin very sick and now they're telling bees heroes that went over there to help the victims or to family members find the rest of their not once but they don't have enough aunts to go. now you would think that sticking up for the first responders who saved lives would be a popular cause for politicians to rally around and they do like to talk about heroes. very. fast. everybody or terrorist attack any really serious national disaster that we have in this country it will not be the federal government is first on the scene it will be

awful liaison officers and firemen hundreds of which we lost in new york city but when it comes to providing compensation to those who bring the day in toxic air and rescue victims of terrorism there's always roadblocks in fact it took years for the fund to be established in the first place when big nightly little compensation fund was created was for a simple reason so people who would not be hard line in history the government or the. building power traitors that was the only reason. that when the bill was created there was a lot of opposition because they didn't want to stop at least. one single simple reason that maybe one has said that there was the smallest damage so do you want to recognize one of the reason. you health now some senators are calling for the fund to be expanded and as first responders continue to fall ill and die claims

from victims and their families are increasing. calls to remember nine eleven aren't just slogans i'm introducing a bipartisan bill to make the victim compensation fund permanent and whole as deafen cancer spike we can't abandon our heroes i want nearly two decades after nine eleven the government just doesn't funnily enough resources for those left behind. r.t. new york. donald trump to live a stark warning to venezuelan government monday the us president stressed his country's commitment to regime change in the impoverished south american nation and call that its military to rise up against president nicolas maduro. we seek a peaceful transition of power. but all options are on. i reiterate my gratitude to president trump as i do to all the other countries for backing and cooperating with constitutional venezuelan movement they are risking

their future. they are risking their lives you must not follow orders to block humanitarian he's the commander in chief of the national a very no will seize the interim to miami. they believe with you know the country. was put on was to months no since the opposition needed one gado declared himself interim president of the impoverished country he continued to climb should nicholas who do rose block tons of u.s. aid from entering the country done cohens got more food this morning on it. trump called on 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

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 the u.s. is causing. tens of billions of dollars of loss going to swell its economy and they're offering twenty million in crumbs this agency live a size that the u.s. is demanding business well except the posse is that the u.s. is imposing a very heavy sanctions that is causing far more damage than any economic crisis in

the country. one sixty in the morning moscow time ahead in the headlines the german chancellor caused outrage among climate activists by claiming the work at the behest of the kremlin get reaction to that plus more when we come back. what holds a sense to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected

. so when you want to express. some want to. write. this is what. people. are interested. to. see it. again tracking the story again next outrage confusion mounting over an attack on just see small let black openly gay american act big star of course in the t.v. drama is going to be questioned by police again as his version of events faces increasing scrutiny in the media he claims two masked men attacked him last month

while shouting racist and homophobic slurs he also said that they made reference to don't want from his make america great again campaign slogan police refused to comment on the case he's denying it by the way given the lack of information about the alleged attack many in the media are now suggesting the. actually set up the attack as i say strongly denies that and as it involves the president and his campaign slogan has been a wave of anti trump outrage. we have a media that's saying it's a debate whether or not what has happened in just this moment is a hate crime it's absurd. isn't it. this is how you have to be fired else impossible to not feel this way right now yeah the president and the vice president might cancel that question is i couldn't be married if let's just be clear heartbroken and furious reading about the attack on juicy small it's i want trump and all my good lunatics to burn in hell homophobia existed before trump but there's no question that since he's injected his hatred into the american bloodstream we are less decent less human and less loving no

intolerance no d.t. there were many who directly tied the us government to what they unequivocal labeled a hate crime and there were more who publicly stood by smaller condemning the attack as an established fact donald trump included an actor from him who was allegedly attacked with racist and homophobic. so that i can tell you is. that. i think that's horrible. doesn't get worse as far as i'm concerned those who stayed away from this bandwagon were made to feel like outcasts and the police intrinsically you fell in this category two by their nature they had to investigate interrogate snoop around and as they did it appears even the fundamentals of this case are not as obvious to them as they are to the angry twitter army we can

confirm but the information received from the individuals questioned by police early in the case has in fact shifted the trajectory of the investigation detectives arrested two suspects who smaller himself positively identified from a c.c. . u.t.v. tapes as his attackers only to release them later without charge the trajectory of the case shifted said the police cryptically according to a source the police think their track could have been staged by small it himself said c.n.n. that's an outrageous claim said small its lawyer as a victim of a hate crime who has cooperated with the police investigation just a small it is angered and devastated by recent reports that the perpetrators are individuals he is familiar with some of his one stern supporters though may have been caught off guard by a fresh flurry of mixed signals house speaker nancy pelosi discreetly deleted her first tweet hoping no one would notice but it's the internet because they did

others try to distance themselves from this case to the vicious attack on act a just a small it was an attempted to modern day lynching i'm glad he's safe is it time to revisit what you said about his remarks what is your feeling on potential faulty times in general all the information still coming out of the withholding to all the information that comes out on the record sources it goes without saying that any victim of a hate crime deserves every bit of sympathy and more including small it if his story passes the test of a police investigation but progressive america seems to be living out the concept of presumptuous guilt trigger happy and hell bent on bashing arguably the single most hated person in america donald trump. yes code to pipe little come to steve malzberg he says this story shows just that the president's critics seize on every possible opportunity to denounce in these days. but pin that on donald

trump anyway saying that he's created this atmosphere that we're gays aren't welcome and blacks aren't welcome in and you know it minorities are welcome so the whole thing is hatred of donald trump so these people are to range and they don't wait for the facts they didn't wait to see where these people charged was he really attacked what did they really say they just did it for any opportunity to turn it into donald trump's fault. well meantime other so explain in germany chancellor merkel has sparked outrage among environmental activists of claiming that the kremlin is behind their protests tease europe correspondent peter all with that one this morning. protests demanding action on climate change of scene of young people out on the streets of cities across the world including here in germany was.

good though was. i. hear. but politicians including those who've previously been outspoken on humanity's need to act when it comes to the climate aren't impressed the german chancellor going as far as to suggest that a third party may be at play here is if you believe the critics this hybrid warfare online is hard to detect because you suddenly have movements that you wouldn't have thought happened in germany children and all three settings of our client protection it's an important concerns but you can't imagine that all german children after years and without any outside influence come up with the idea that they have to take part in those protests all those comments came just after chancellor merkel had talked about russia as a potential threat well her spokesperson had to step in in the end and clear things up to say that mrs merkel did support the commitment of those protesters but ideas

and talk of hybrid warfare doesn't wash with the protesters or their supporters. longside hybrid war for one except that we are a self organized movement of students apparently the chancellor concert magine the young people can organize themselves politically and stand up for their own future i find it tragic the we're not trusted to stand up for our own concerns it isn't just in germany that this is being suggested though in belgium a regional environment minister was forced to resign after she falsely claims that intelligence chiefs had told her there was a shadowy hand behind the protests i know he is behind this movement i have also been told that from stay security climate demonstrations are more. or the spontaneous actions of solidarity with our climate we have not reported anything about the the the verbal nor in writing in australia the prime minister was fairly blunt in saying the protesters were little more than a bit of

a nuisance kids should go to school we do not support our schools be turned into power what we want is more learned in schools and less activism in school these protesters aren't finding a receptive ear amongst the world's leaders as they try to save the planet will inherit those centrist forces both in the u.s. and in europe have been trying to deflect attention to russia whenever there are key issues that are coming up from the streets and from communities in their countries these are the same issues there's a vision own movement is responding to that the occupy movement was responding to the anti a stereotype movements across the world have been responding to since the financial crisis it is basically the failure of the establishment to address the fundamental issues that were exposed in that crisis and it's also the anger at the fact that the normal taxpayers who are now being faced with massive constraints on just living normal lives struggling desperately to pay for rent and bills and food and

all the rest of it that's much easier to try and distract from the message by questioning what's going on behind the messenger. or the world's greatest tennis legend this is rick night in a row of a transgender sportsman taking part in women's competitions just a few months after being called over in century to each made you know neil spoke to our sports correspondent for morning. another to lower the eighteen time grand slam winner one of the best tennis athletes the world has ever seen is known for good comebacks and this is maybe just one of them off the court however this spat started on twitter in december when she tweeted out you cannot just proclaim yourself a female and be able to compete against women there must be some standards and having a penis and competing as a woman would not fit that standard so that prompted a very angry response by a transgender world cycling champion rachel mckinnon from canada who accused the tennis legend of being transferred phobic and having an agenda against transgender

people back then never said that she would take some time she was forced into an apology and she would have to study more on the matter she studied on the matter and came back not just with the statement but with the full article she wrote for the times newspaper where she said that not only she stands by what she said back then in december she also reinforced her beliefs and here is one of the quotes from there a man can decide to be female take hormones everything in sight and perhaps earn a small fortune and then reverse his decision and go back to making babies if she still desires it's insane and it's cheating so never to have a specifically stressed that in order to achieve in a competition where transgender athletes are participating you know these days many sport are going to zation are reducing hormone levels and she said this would be not not enough this would not solve the problem so in order to do that men athletes would have to take this hormone treatment as early as at the age of puberty and she

described that as unthinkable unacceptable and unimaginable she also stressed that there should be a very direct very distinct clear distinction between transgender athletes and transsexual athletes with the latter in this case having no competitive advantage due to the you know the nature of their sex change which is surgical so having cited examples of boat. she also condemned what she described as vilification of athletes who wanted to be different relating to her own experience because as we all remember she was one of the first athletes to come out as a lesbian that was that happened back in a high profile and i just it was more than thirty years ago. and that the article by saying that she only wants fairness in sports and that's the ultimate goal of what she wrote about and let's not forget this fresh spat happens amid. a legal battle between a south african runner her name is caster semenya and she's fighting against the international association of athletics federations to counsel the limits of just

tossed around and blood that they introduced last year so it is clearly a very touchy a very controversial and emotional subject but looking at the reaction from both camps it's not going to subside anytime soon and i. don't comb. the sly.