this hour's headlines story. online media company caught up in a face. to updated information on the platform. waiting for the social media giant to lift its. facebook's this is to suspend the kinds. of censorship by the head of the international federation of journalists. fueling the discord the german chancellor calls by suggesting the kremlin is behind a wave of student marches protesting climate change also ahead. they are risking their future. risking their lives the u.s.

intensifies its efforts to. warning top military officers of dire consequences if they don't rise up against the troubled country's president. around the clock across the world this is your r.t. international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome to our top story the firm behind a series of suspended facebook news pages is waiting to hear if he'll be allied bach on the site after agreeing to the social media giants the man to make clear. with us here at our facebook took the media's pages done without warning a number of days ago lots of reaction to this russia's foreign minister has

described the move as part of a broader campaign to. russian news outlets. 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 sergei lavrov common to. a facebook 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 controversial 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's sad 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. and he drew his attention to numerous incidents of such sort that involve russian media mr said that further examination on oh a c.e.o. level will be conducted. to 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 i would contact the ois see representative about this issue and ask him to give his view for the reaction from another heavy hitter the president of the international federation of journalists who taught facebook over its suspension of those are two linked pages. 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. . artie's senior correspondent rutgers the of has been delving deeper into the story and explains why facebook's critics are crying for 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 but this is the inevitable outcome of breaking facebook to censor here is a taste of the us 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.

good reason to would justify the 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 the suspected reason is that it didn't reveal it's russian funding which no one doesn't feel book 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 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 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 to make quality stuff funny videos serious videos investigations the poor the saul's 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 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 these now seemingly is

a crime enough to get your bad and. the richard question whether facebook should have the power to decide what people see and hear i mean the theory beyond the incident was that if more people wanted to see something that we should be allowed to see it and the of the when you do internet searches things that come up when you put a question in you're supposed to find 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 is anger as hurt feeling of being picked on bullied but it'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 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. did earlier get in contact with russian media. russian media this request explaining that it's up dating pages on its platform at large audiences and waiting for information to be disclosed concerning location and funding however a screenshot taken from in the now is page one of the accounts that was blocked shows the location data was actually provided as you can make out here ortiz deputy director for creativity and innovation overcrowding gave us his thoughts on the crackdown and what it says about the current political climate. i think the most 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 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 but 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 we're going to suffer. let's move on to more world news this hour germany's chancellor angela merkel has sparked eye trait among environmental activists by implying recent student protests against climate change were triggered by.

influencers artie's europe correspondent peter oliver reports 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 humanities need to act when it comes to the climate on to 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 are now protesting over climate protection. 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 moto puts us alongside hybrid war for we want to accept that we are of 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 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 being turned into power that 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 out 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 the end to your stereotype movements 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 distract from the message by questioning what's going on behind the message. here to another one of our headlines stories now donald trump delivered a stark warning to the venice wheelan government on monday the u.s. president stressed his country's commitment to. change in the south american nation and called on its military to rise up against president nicolas maduro. i have every official who is helping to keep our own lives 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 they are now country the days of socialism and communism are numbered not only in venezuela but in nicaragua and cuba as well. donald trump in miami which is tired rhetoric to question the rights of a free country to adopt the ideas of christian human socialism i was socialism you know was not speech well it's been almost a month since opposition figurehead one. self interim president of the impoverished country he is a lot in an ongoing power struggle with nicolas maduro and is continuing to clash with the socialist leader where his refusal to allow u.s. aid into the country done cool and takes up the story trump called on the venezuelan military figures to accept amnesty from quango i don't know saying that if they don't then they will lose everything now up to this point 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 and 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 to 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 here on. he threatens in that speech the roots of the country though he does love the government and the very first movie you know you just pointed because the only

problem will would for it point of me. to follow we all do you want to know how to do any work those in the world will want to bring about regime change. we will addition and there will be those that run and then to say these are the real president and this is also learned was. not just the national sovereignty of others or that because you've just do it work to get away with the it's something that doesn't look easy they'll be able to get away with if you were not to nationals from and your own country. the u.s. and china are heading for another round of talks to try and take some of the heat i'd of their acrimonious trade dispute that's ours beijing and washington continue their dispute over the chinese tech giant weiwei which the u.s. has accused of being a security espionage threat. well it seems that only while wiese 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 or rolling out the next generation network maybe you could be among the united states in 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 and 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 know 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 the way another chinese telecom companies. we must protect our critical telecom infrastructure. in 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 main one shoe was a rest that invent whoever was 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. fell 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 with a company has that night old claims and any connections to the chinese government but it seems that the conflict will not end anytime soon. yeah lots of parts to this issue so thankfully we've got an expert joining us for more insight professor benjamin chao from the business school good to have your company this hour washington is not relenting here why do you think the u.s. is so determined to this trip while way are they right to be suspicious after all building a five g. mobile network amounts to

a lot of power. i think. you will go and facebook are more on the top and bottom layer application and they the layers ali is the largest set of communication between them but it won't be much concentrating on the the layout that you can inform the pipes one can only. if the us wants them on the plies vertical or you could do as in the us and expression now that five g. which probably has already gotten thirty so it is a general purpose knology that is as the electricity know however the us i could say should never stick with issue has not really been undermined by its close and eyes are the patients they signal namely the u.k. national cybersecurity center inform financial finds that the mystery of folly five genes will be manageable. inventing a whole competition more that could be in your shit in the layers that no one sign on the lights and the market i think you're alluding to out there that the u.s.

claims while away poses a security threat and yet american companies are you know we're talking about the big behemoths here google facebook they've also come under scrutiny haven't they for their reach on the use of people's data. right exactly because. a system secure the cybersecurity so if it's as much for the uses of google and so i think us in this sense in mind that will stand. on the issue. on what basis can the u.s. . allies to to choose or to ditch a company that washington is wary of if they have got partners or run the world and they say well we've got to quit meant that we don't want to link up with us because you're related to while away you buy their equipment how difficult is that for

those third countries. well it's really hot in fact in some countries all the length promises now that the. u.k. a b. and of france has already already built to. send ali you know they are not working ali. so it's a get it. why do you know i'm by they risk losing customers because to simply buy. on the market here's. the big issue benjamin surrounding all this of course is the china u.s. ongoing trade. i was just explaining a little bit earlier before you came on that officials walked out empty handed essentially from last week's talks in beijing it looks like do you expect any breakthroughs from this new round of negotiations. well i think it was just silly

tree needy people to define agreement the ninety day cease fire agreed between the two sides is set to expire on march this round but i know you started to look for some possible you know you know what i buy in the market. you what the market has why the more size the u.s. probably one less knowledge transfer for john mentioned as well as small market as china is already expressing signs to a point you could culture products such as the purchase of millions of tons of soybeans reason its genesis is how you want more products but chinese and like you can make a mess of concessions that you own that. yet that march first deadline fast approaching just over a week away professor benjamin chow from the paris business school thank you. all right it's time to finish on a sour note because in the latest big scoop the business magazine forbes has

concluded that russia's cane and it is a big lemon consumption here lemons by the way it can be explained by the fact that the fruit has come to be seen as a status symbol well almost just for yourself. wealthy russians really like to incorporate lemons by lifestyle they communicate to people that they have means to be able to afford them they call it the bling of projects. so who's in right now so we have come on kirsten gillibrand. months she's an

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