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their future. i guess the u.s. intensified. with donald trump warning. consequences if the. country's president. at five pm here in moscow the nineteenth day of february twenty nine thousand a warm welcome to our to international i mean and our top story russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said he facebook's recent suspension of several r.t.s. . being part of a broader campaign to clamp down on russian news. yes without a doubt i think this is another example of the suppression of russian media and of freedom of speech it's very sad speaking to the press this tuesday russia's foreign

minister sergey lavrov common to listen to facebook's suspension of several r.t. affiliates it counts including in the now page which originally was a show aired by r.t. and as you heard the minister called the situation and no other example of international pressure on russian media sergei lavrov also said that in such a situation it's best to create conflict all working conditions for foreign media working here in russia and i also had a chance to ask the minister whether he believes there will be any a measures taken in response to this incident and this is what set a gay lover of said just to be honest i'm totally against any retaliates three measures to limit media activities i think the fact that we're not doing that not only shows our resilience but also all strength we are an open society so again lover of also said that he discussed this incident during his negotiations with chairman made us laugh and he drew his attention to numerous incidents of such sort

that unfolds russian media mr said that further examination on oh a c.e.o. level will be conducted. to see understands and supports the rule of independent media and does its best to create necessary circumstances for their existence and has missed a lot i would contact the ois see representative about these issues and ask him to give his view. and the now has requested an official explanation from facebook but so far there has been no response coming from the social media platform the president of the international federation of journalists has also hit out at facebook over its suspension of those are linked pages. 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 have j l r t senior correspondent 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 voiced seeing legitimate arguments critical of us foreign policy

a totally journalistic thing to do criticize and discuss stuff right this is censorship selective biased unfair prejudiced and blatant regardless of what you think of run 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 of course ran a colleague's video 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 face about

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 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. sponsored outlets no country not china not turkey not russia not the us has 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 think 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 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

incident was if more people wanted to see something that we should be allowed to see. when you do internet searches and things 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 media would like to say to facebook is anger hurt feeling of being picked on bullied but is also understanding and a simple human p. 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 outlets regardless of what government they're funded by to censor what 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. though it still hasn't contacted about the page suspensions and was going through their facebook spoken to russia's tass news agency about the move it say's it's in the process of launching an op date for pages with large audiences and that it wants administrator to disclose information about their location funding sources however a screen shot taken from page one of the a consulate was blocked shows the location data was actually provided us you can see our deputy director for creativity and innovation gave us his thoughts on the crackdown on. the current political climate. i think that the militia obviously comes from the tipple from the german marshall fund and the follow up to . 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 and others voicing in on it there might well be some flags raised in facebook that had been raised before we should always keep the door open and hopeful but having said that it's quite clear the russian gauge is out of control the narrative around russia gate the paranoia the conspiracy theories we're going to starting to seem to be 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 but we were on the our two side we're going to suffer. let's turn attention to germany now where the country's chancellor angela merkel. environmental activists by implying recent student protests against climate change were back to europe correspondent peter all of our house the story. protests

demanding on climate change i've seen young people on the streets of cities across the world including the. in germany was. was. was. hit. but politicians including those who have 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 if you believe the critics this hybrid warfare 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 and 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 i did talk of hybrid warfare doesn't wash with the protesters or their supporters moto puts us alongside hybrid war for we want to accept that we are a self organized movement of students apparently the chancellor concert magine that 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 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 be turned into parliament so 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 they will inherit those centuries 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 for 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 end here starting 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 normal tax payers 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. donald trump delivered a stark warning to their venice willing government on monday the u.s. president stressed his country's commitment to regime change in the south american nation and called on its military to rise up against president nicolas maduro. and today i have a message for every official who is helping to keep the do our own lives they are risking their future. they are risking their lives you must not follow the doers orders to block humanitarian he's the commander in chief of the national a very known forces donald trump from miami. they believe that you know the country

the days of socialism and communism are numbered not only in venezuela but in nicaragua and cuba as well. trying to donald trump in miami which is tired rhetoric question the right of a free country to adopt the ideas of christian human socialism i was socialism in an almost not speech. it's also been a month almost since the opposition figurehead one goh i don't declare himself interim president of the impoverished country he's locked in an all knowing power struggle with nicolas maduro and is continuing the clash we know with the socialist leader over his refusal to allow u.s. aid into the country a lot of elements to this story done calling breaks it down for us. 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 cocoa talk colombia and actually the billionaire richard branson has announced he will be staging. concert pressure nikolaus to my door to open the border to this so-called earlier today the venezuelan government announced it will be holding its own concert on the border and said it wants to deliver aid packages she not only mentioned minnesota he threatens in that speech but the roots of the country like you does not have the

government not the lady for who you know this is the point to deserve the only possible word for it point of all means to follow we all do you understand how to do anywhere those in the world will want to bring the regime change. we will addition and they'll be gloating over those around and then to say these are the real president and this is also learned was what is at stake here is not just the national sovereignty over the other because if the united states were to get away with the something that doesn't look easy they'll be able to get in we need every we're not to nationals from and the only country. after the break here in our to international a curious case in the u.s. involving a famous actor has come under intense scrutiny now as police try to establish if it's a hate crime or a hoax. you

know world of big. law and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that made history media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter 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 truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. we're witnessing something quite remarkable in the night twenty nine we're watching a country bred testbed in the nineteenth century bubble really for. almost 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.

one thousand minutes into the program welcome back controversy is growing over on the ledge the talk in chicago on the juicy small but i block and openly gay american actor the star of the t.v. drama empire is set to be interviewed by police once again with his version of events coming under increasing scrutiny in the media and let's go through the claims he say that two white men in ski masks top ten last month charging racist and homophobic slurs he also said they made reference to donald trump's make him or . great again campaign slogan police have refused to comment in any significant way on their investigation into the case but given

a lack of information about the alleged attack an apparent holes in his story some in the media are not suggesting the actor actually set up the attack possibly to improve his career there police sources reportedly allege that small and paid two brothers from nigeria who were extras on his show to stage an assault something he strongly denies the story involves the president's campaign slogan there's also been a wave of anti trump treat each. 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 yeah the president and the vice president might cancel that question 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. 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 that 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 of the we hold all the information actually 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. and just on that last point gore was bringing up political commentary and that all of the bird told us the story shows

that the president's critics seize on every verified claim to the nonsense. 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 where these people charge was he really attacked what did they really say they just did it for any opportunity to turn it into donald trump's fault. the u.s. and china are heading for another round of talks to try and take some of the heat out of their acrimonious trade dispute that is as beijing and washington continue their dispute over the chinese technology john one way which the u.s. has accused of being a security espionage threats of done jay leno sebas from artie's ruptly

news video agency reports live from beijing. well it seems that only while we's officials have been reacting to the latest accusations by the chinese government as well on monday the chinese government accuse the united states of blocking its industrial development after vice president pence has been saying that while we pose a threat to any of those countries who are considering using the chinese telecom firms equipment we're rolling out the next generation network may have energy to go be among the united states and a few of its allies are using double standards and deliberately misleading the public on the issue they use the issue as an excuse for suppressing the legitimate development rights and interests of chinese enterprises using political means to intervene in economic behavior it's hypocritical immoral and unfair bullying. and the united states is becoming more and more anti wall way the last tour of michael pill didn't seem enough to scare its european allies of staying away from the

chinese firm the actually how to bring out the big guns and this time vice president mike pence last week mike pence had a tour in europe who has been criticizing its european partners and saying that they haven't been doing enough and taking actions against well wait just like pump ale no mike pence has been urgently repeatedly saying that while we poses a threat the united states has also been very clear with our security partners on the threat posed by wall way and other chinese telecom companies. we must protect our critical telecom infrastructure and america is calling on all our security partners to be vigilant and to reject any enterprise that would compromise the integrity of our communications technology. or our national security systems vice president pence is trying to justify his position by using chinese law he believes that the chinese telecom firms are collecting data and providing it to the chinese at teligent services but the chinese government has long denied any of these

accusations saying that the interpretation of this law is one sided and this conflict in this long conflict has been going on for quite a while now last december the company see a full man one shoe was arrested in vancouver wa changing planes she was charged with thirteen counts of fraud and conspiracy by trying to bypass sanctions on iran and just last month the u.s. filed to criminal charges against the chinese telecom firm by trying to steal secrets for any of the u.s. telecom companies and providing it to the chinese state well the company has the night all claims and any connections to the chinese government but it seems that the conflict will not end anytime soon. all right we're back with more great programs in moments and do remember for right up to the moment developments our web and twitter pages of your coverage this is our to interest.

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