head of the international federation of. facebook this is. bringing up to speak. german chancellor. suggesting that the kremlin the wave of student protests against climate change also. helping. the u.s. intensifies its efforts. country's

president. revealed that a compensation fund for victims of the nine eleven terror attacks is dramatically reducing payments in some cases seventy percent. this is a very good afternoon for me. with the latest update stay with me then first an act of censorship so the president of the international federation of journalists has described facebook suspension of several. accounts 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 something to conceal to russia is

a little bit of truth to say about the. 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 i.f.j. it's a complicated story trying to work out what's really happening here a good man to do it r.t. senior correspondent more ghastly of delve deeper into the story and to explain why facebook's critics are crying foul as well over what's happened here. 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 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 this. a lot of legitimate argument why they voiced seeing legitimate arguments critical of us foreign policy a 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. reporter calls rana colics 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 remarkable also is that facebook talked to everyone they wanted but haven't said a word reason they were justified anything to the folks they blocked facebook hasn't contacted i thought 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 to didn't reveal it's russian funding which no one doesn't face book and never have 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. sponsored outlets no country not china not turkey not russia not the us how 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 al-jazeera space that 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 food media i know many of them they work to make quality stuff funny videos serious videos investigations the poor the sauls into their work only because the side the winds the thesis censors personally i'm surprisingly calm because i've spent in the now it was a project that i created from scratch it's in the now because many of these in now 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 contacts. 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 result questioned whether facebook should have the power to decide what people see and hear i mean the theory beyond the internet was if more people would just. something that we should be allowed to see it and you of the when you do internet searches the things that come up when you put a question in he's 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 maffet media would like to say to face book there's anger there's hurt feeling of being picked on bullied but there's also understanding and a simple human plea facebook 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 outlets regardless of what government they're funded by to censor like 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 although it still hasn't contacted the page suspensions for this one this is facebook's has spoken to russia's tass news agency by the move it says it's in the process of launching an update for pages with large audiences and that it wants administrator is to disclose information about their location and funding sources however screenshot this is due in taken from the in the page one of the accounts that was blocked shows that one of those demands was met as you can see artie's deputy director for

creativity and innovation of across he told me his thoughts of the crackdown and what it says about the current political climate. i think the the malicious element of it obviously cons from the tipple from the german marshall fund and the follow up on the last two to see through c.n.n. to the the atlantic council are not necessarily sure facebook even knew what was going on although i dare say after people like mr of and others voicing an honest there might well be some flags raised in facebook that hadn't been raised before we should always keep the door open and hopeful but having said that it's quite clear that you know russia gate is out of control the narrative around russia gate the paranoia the conspiracy theories were around russia going to starting to seem to great on the one hand i certainly had executives who senior executives who work with those social media platforms eighteen months ago tell me behind closed doors that that narrative was out of control that there was nothing you can do and they did mean anything personal bias but we were really on the arctic side we're going to suffer. sort of germany next the country chancellor angela merkel sparked

outrage among environmental activists after she implied that recent student protest against climate change maybe have been spurred on by the kremlin somehow artie's europe correspondent peter all of us go to. protests demanding action on climate change of scene of young people out on the streets of cities across the world including here in germany i. was. the. politicians including those you'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 clicks this hybrid war thing online is haunted attacked because you suddenly have movements that you

wouldn't have thought would happen in germany children are now protesting over climate protection it's an important concern 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 this protest 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 didn't 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. puts us alongside hybrid war for we want to accept that we are a self organize movement of students apparently the chancellor consummation that young people can organize themselves politically and stand up for their own future i find it tragic that 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 vironment minister was forced to resign after she falsely claimed 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 the spontaneous actions of solidarity with our climate we have not reported anything about this neither 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 being turned into power or what we want is more learning in schools and less activism in school these young protesters aren't finding a receptive ear amongst the world's leaders as they try to save the planet but they will inherit 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 that. is responding to that the occupy movement was responding to that here and here stare at him in. it's across the world has 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 sort of distract from the message by questioning what's going on behind the messenger. donald trump delivered a stark warning to the venezuelan government or monday the u.s. president stressed his country's commitment to regime change in that south american nation and cold of its military now to rise up against president nicolas maduro. i have a message for every official who is helping to keep your own lights are risking their future. they are risking their lives you must not follow orders to block

humanitarian who's the commander in chief of the national bolivarian armed forces donald trump from miami. they believe they own our country of socialism and communism our number not only in red as well but in nicaragua and. donald trump in miami which is tired rhetoric question the right of free country to adopt the ideas of christian human socialism our socialism in an almost nazi style speech. is but also a month since the opposition figurehead while gordo declared himself the interim president of the impoverished country is still locked in an ongoing struggle with nicolas maduro and his recently clashed with the socialist leader over his refusal to allow u.s. aid into the country done cohens got more details on this big story. trump called on the venezuelan military figures to accept amnesty from. saying that if they don't then they will lose everything now up to this point there's venezuelan

military officers continue largely to support the elected president nicolas maduro trump says but they are risking their future and their lives and called on them not big 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 military is solidly with. when you look at the history of venice wales military after the coup

and even before that because chavis was organizing a large group of officers high ranking officers and high achieving are serious in the cademy around the same generation as chavez and they were the ones who took on the dictatorship of palestine status so they have been loyal to him ever since what the u.s. has to do you see they can't talk directly about what war is really about on their site they have to say it's a documentary in crisis. hysteria about russia's exceeding any limits this is our next story even the american business magazine forbes has concluded that when the russians want to show off their wealth in the bun luxury homes or cars will pop say you know they prefer to buy lemons or leave the absence of any check has become a common practice in respect to do so papers by. there are some lessons which journalists may use in order not to look up professional.

wealthy russians really like to incorporate lemons. they communicate to people that they have to be able to afford them they call it the blink of projects. so who's in right now so we have come on kirsten gillibrand. months she's an aside toady was i mean she is a total i think that use that word correctly jamie can you check with tony means thinking phonetic. she's an assad sycophant might what you're saying

yeah that's true that's. known about her but what did she say that we have all of ours i don't know i don't remember the details i probably should say that before we say that about her which probably read it rather well i have read it. wouldn't these examples meet the times definition of plagiarism it would mean the times definition of things said should be promptly correct and sometimes you know quote it's an attribute. of the bright look at how the american i just see still that's facing increasing scrutiny over his claims that he was the victim of a hate crime which is one of the stories ahead here on r.t. international.

we're witnessing something quite remarkable and the one. we're watching a country. in the nineteenth century a bubble really four. hundred years they're going to crash into the twenty first century as if they're just being teleported into the twenty first thing. you know world of big. lot and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now watching closely watching the hawks.

when i was given i mean folks watching this channel now there's been a few to try the united states after it was revealed that a fund to help the victims of nine eleven is rapidly running out of money after all these years it was set up back in twenty eleven to compensate those affected by exposure to toxins sites of those terrible terror attacks but it's manage and i says at least twenty thousand claimants will now have to have their payment slashed by seventy percent we spoke to one of the. well with the political pressure pressure now we are trying to make right now. to stories so

many first responders that direct their nine eleven because of cancer related issues because of a ground zero effect and when they're activating funds for all the things i doubt that they will. look into go big time sense a ok let's take you know i have my big doubts about the compensation funds paid five billion dollars to refer twenty one first and claimants it now says only has two billion left for those twenty thousand other outstanding claims and it's expected that more will be made as well more detail caleb maupin the next. 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 was running low given the funding already expended in the increases in claim volumes i was determined that 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 and painfully aware of the inequity of the situation fund managers 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. with the only master key that will stop me you know. buried on the rubble was risk you are a fire truck and just imagine that one. after. the people while we have people have torment cancer each use i'm beginning to be sick and now they're turning bs heroes that went over to help the victims sort of going to

members find. the rest of their not once but they don't have enough on to do that 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 . oh they're. going to mash up. everybody on their terrorist attack any really serious national disaster that we have in this country they will not be the federal government is first on the scene they 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 fun to be established in the first place when big eleven compensation from bush created was for a simple reason so people would not be heard elaine in history government or.

building power. that was their only reason but. 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. costs 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. controversy is growing over alleged to just see smaller the black openly gay american activist big star of course is all over t.v. to our empire seems to be questioned by police again this his version of events faces increasing scrutiny in the media he claims to most men attacked him last

month while shouting racist and homophobic slurs further he also says that made reference to donald trump's make america great again campaign slogan where police refused to comment on the investigation of the case of those far but given the lack of information about the alleged attack many of the media are now also suggesting that maybe just maybe the actor actually set up the assaults himself it is something he strongly denies aside from all this as it involves the president and his campaign slogan there was also a wave of rage generated by it all to. 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 as i couldn't be married let's just be clear heartbroken and furious reading about the attack on juicy smollett 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 an equivocal labeled a hate crime and there were more who publicly stood by smaller condemning the attack as an established fact donald trump included an employer 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.t.v. tapes as his attackers only to release them later without charge the trajectory of the case shifted so the police cryptically. according to a source the police think their tack could have been staged by small it himself said c.n.n. that's an outrageous claim said small it's floyd 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 before course they did others try to distance themselves from this case to the vicious attack or not to jesse small it was an attempted 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 on the withhold it all the information that he 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. political commentator steve malzberg

told us the story shows that the president's critics seize on every possible opportunity these days to denounce him but pin that on donald trump anyway saying that he's created this atmosphere where 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 what 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. and that's it's so far from me the shoes take kevin owen you know nails here for coming out was folks watching out international as ever because all on these strange mobile devices from.

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