russia's foreign minister. harsh words for facebook claiming the social network is attempting to. respond to the company's decision to suspend the. head of the international federation of journalists. censorship. coming up on the program fuelling discord the german chancellor. suggesting that the kremlin is behind the wave. protesting climate change.

they are risking their future. warning. consequences if. the trouble countries president we've got. coming up. ten pm encumber a string and two in the afternoon right here in moscow this is our international our top story this hour russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov said he views facebook's recent suspension of several r.t.s. . being part of a broader campaign to. yes without

a doubt i think this is another example of the suppression of russian media and of freedom of speech so it's very sad. all right where more all this let's go straight to our tease medina. not holding back here what else did russia's foreign minister have to say. was speaking to the press this tuesday russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov commented on the recent a facebook suspension of several affiliated to counseling clearing in the now page was was that which was originally a show aired by r.t. and you heard the minister calling the situation another example of international pressure on russian media well i had a chance to ask the minister whether he believes there will be any measure is taking in response to this incident and this is what. just. too good to be honest i'm totally against any retaliates three measures to limit media

activities i think if i were not doing that not only shows our resilience but also our strength we are an open society. on the minister also said that he discussed this incident during his negotiations with zero s. c.e. chairman minister and he also drew his attention to numerous incidents of the sort that involve russian media. listen to what you are. the see understands and supports the role of independent media and does its best to create all the necessary circumstances for their existence and has missed a lot of roofs and i will contact the noise see representative about this issue and ask him to give his view. i mean that now has requested an official explanation from facebook but so far there has been no response coming from the social media giant. for bringing us right off the dates. well another line on this the

president of the international federation of journalists has hit out at facebook over its suspension of those pages. closing a facebook account or any internet link from the media without prior warning can be considered as not to censorship opposed by the i have j. . artie's senior correspondent iraq as the it has been delving deeper into the story and explains why facebook's critics are crying foul 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 voicing 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 but 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 of course 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 remarkable also is that facebook talked to everyone they wanted but haven't said a word riis. justified anything 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 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 the qatari sponsored outlets no country not china not turkey not russia not the us how to put these labels 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 as 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 food media i know many of them to make quality stuff funny videos serious videos investigations the poor the sauls into their work only because the side of the whims of ceaseless censors personally i'm surprisingly calm because i've spent in the now was a project that i created from scratch it's in the now because my name's and he's 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 there is was being too russian and these now seemingly ease enough to get your. 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 wanted to see something that we should be allowed to see it and 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 of no started talking about changing the algorithms there's a lot of mass media would like to say to the spoke there's anger as hurt feelings of being picked on bullied but there's also understanding and as simple human plea facebook if you're listening what i would say to you is i understand that you're under in men's 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. and it could lead to disaster in the end. against the of with the reports well although it still hasn't contacted r.t. about the page suspensions facebook spoken to russia's tass news agency about the move it says it's in the process of launching an update for pages with large audiences and that it wants administrators to this close information about their location and funding sources wherever a screenshot taken from in the now is page one of the accounts that was blocked shows that location data was actually provided as you can see artie's deputy

director for creativity and innovation ivor crosby gave us his thoughts on the crackdown on what it says upon the current political climate. i think that the malicious element of it obviously cons from the tipple from the german marshall fund and the follow up on the last two. through c.n.n. to the atlantic council i'm not necessarily sure facebook even knew what was going on although i daresay after people like mr biscoe 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 we on the r.t.

side were going to suffer. all right let's turn attention to germany where the country stands for angle of marco sparked outrage amongst environmental activists she implied that recent student protests climate change were being spurred on by the kremlin parties your correspondent peter oliver has more. 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 who 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 will thing online is haunted attacked because you suddenly have movements that you wouldn't have thought would happen in germany children. 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 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 one accept that we are a self organize movement of students apparently the chancellor consummation the 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 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 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 schools 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. bonding too that the occupy movement was responding to the end to your 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 it's much easier to try and distract from the message by questioning what's going on behind the messenger. ok not good on an ongoing story no donald trump delivered a stark warning to the venezuelan government on monday the u.s. president stressed his country's commitment to regime change in the south american nation called on its military to rise up against president nicolas maduro.

i haven't asked for every official who is helping to keep our own lives they 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 are now country the days of socialism and communism are numbered not only in brenda's well why did nicaragua and. china donald trump in miami which is tired rhetoric question the right of a free country to adopt the ideas of christian human socialist our socialism in an almost not speech. well it has been almost a month since opposition figurehead at one go i don't declare himself interim president of the impoverished country he's a locked in an ongoing power struggle with nicolas maduro is continuing to clash

with the socialist leader over his refusal to allow u.s. aid into the country picking up the story for us down cold. 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. ok a lot to discuss let's try and go through some of it at least with chilean academic francisco domingo's he is the head of latin american studies at middlesex university in the u.k. welcome to the program what do you make of donald trump's warning essentially saying that the military will lose everything if they remain with their president and. frustration. and the reason he's not been me you call. him a losing is less you know the nominees on and so forth.

and it is incredible that you have the president the most powerful nation on earth apply the horrible sanctions against a small country. trying to financially. confiscate in this global hugo something like twenty billion dollars plus the europeans are here to the united states and some of them anyway by confiscate in the original three billion dollars which belonged to venezuela and made me in venezuela very short of currency to go for the missing. never did most of those and then they insist they want to actually remain by force in a million trace fashion one of those called humanitarian aid i think what this is all about ease as you know president trying to give. and some of the others is about regime change and this is to create sons. and son.

to be able to actually justify one of the repairing which is war. in the final is where they really want is to get their hands on venezuelan oil if you want to stay safe and trump and others were so keen to hold the venezuelan economy in the middle of people who are suffering as a result of the sanctions that will lift them immediately and then they will call the new at all just all not quite because that's interesting donald trump has repeatedly attacked socialism and blamed it for venezuela's dire economic situation what do you make of that because surely there's a there's a lot at play in venezuela biting u.s. sanctions and oil reliant a commie that has problems getting on to be international stage now with those sanctions in your thoughts. prison terms and you know he's a far wrote in addition. the fact that somebody has

a particular leader. doesn't mean to say they're entitled to you don't like to impose their views on anybody else he not when you mention minnesota he threatens in that speech the rest of the country like you does not have the government not this is absolutely incredible and the very fact that the united states appointed rosenborg word for it pointed me that way don't mean to follow we all behind it has to be weighed in with those in the world where we want to bring about regime change . when politician and there will be plenty of those around and then to say this is the real president and then you know. hell break loose and this is a complete circle so minimal what isn't stated here is not just the national sovereignty of venezuela because if the united states were to get away with something that doesn't look easy they'll be able to get away you can be everywhere no national sovereignty of any kind or can down the southeast saying francisco

thank you so much for your time this hour francisco domingo is head of latin american studies at the u.k.'s middlesex university. all right controversy is growing over an alleged attack on just the small it block and openly gay american actor the star of the t.v. drama empire is going to be interviewed by police again as his version of events comes on during creasing scrutiny in the media now he claims to white men in ski masks attacked him last month in chicago while shouting racist and homophobic slurs and you also say they made reference to donald trump's make america great again campaign slogan police have refused to comment on there are investigation into the case but given the lack of information about the alleged attack some of the media are now is suggesting the actor actually set up the attack itself there are police sources allege that small it paid two brothers from nigeria who were extras on his

show to stage an assault to try and improve his career something he strongly denies and does it involves the president his campaign slogan there's also been a wave of anti age. 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 with the president and the vice president like cancer like wishes 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 unequivocal labeled

a hate crime and there were more who publicly stood by smaller condemning the attack as an established fact donald trump included. 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 said 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 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 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 withholding told 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 or political commentator steve malzberg told us the story shows that the president's critics season every possible on verified plane to do a lot of. but pin that on donald trump anyway saying that he's created this atmosphere where gays aren't welcome and blacks aren't welcome and 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. dummies are up for now i'll be back in thirty with more of the stories affecting your shoes they happen to stay close in moments where a crossing to washington on the watching the whole. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the pope the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and

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greetings and sal you take us previously on watching the hawks we discussed a rather mysterious shipment of guns radios and i phone that was confiscated by ben as whale in the forty's allegedly the guns were being smuggled into the country via a chartered cargo plane out of miami in order to arm u.s. backed opposition groups looking to unseat sitting president in the white house's latest supervillain nicolas maduro well now as they say is where the plot thickens because according to a recent mcclatchy news investigation into twenty one the air the u.s. air cargo company at the center of this mysterious arms shipment two of their executives including majority owner and chairman moreno have either coincidentally or direct ties to gemini air cargo a company that amnesty international described in.