the r.t. link online media company caught up in a facebook crackdown matic media agrees to update its information on the platform and is now waiting for the social media giant to be lifted suspension facebook's decision to suspend the account has been lambasted as not active censorship by the head of the international federation of journalists. plus feeling discords the german chancellor of course is outraged by suggesting outside influences behind a wave of student marches protesting climate change.

very warm welcome it is r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and here. in our top story the firm behind a series of suspended facebook news pages is waiting to hear if they'll be allowed back on the size of agreeing to the social media giants demands to make clear that they're affiliated with r.t. facebook took moffitt media's pages down without warning a few days ago russia's foreign minister described the move as part of a broader campaign to clamp down on russian news outlets. yes without a doubt i think this is another example of the suppression of russian media freedom of speech it's very sad speaking to the press this tuesday russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov a common to listen to facebook suspension of several r.t. affiliated accounts 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 for of also said that in such situations

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's sad just to be amish talking socially against any retaliate three measures to limit media activities i think the fact that we're not doing that not only shows our resilience but also. we are an open society so gay lover of also said that he discussed this incident during his negotiations with the chairman miroslav flight shock and he drew his attention to numerous incidents of such sort that involved the russian media mr jack said that further examination on iowa c.e.o. level will be conducted. to see understand and support the role of independent media and does its best to create the necessary circumstances for their existence

and as mr law i will contact the ois see representative about this issue and ask him to give his view the president of the international federation of journalists as also his house at facebook of what suspension of those aussie 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. . r.t. senior correspondent galaxy s. has been delving deeper into this 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 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 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. report 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 the suspected reason is that it didn't reveal its russian funding which no one does and facebook and never had we. 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 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 me 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 there's

a lot last week media would like to see to the book as anger as hurt feeling of being picked on bullied but is also understanding and a simple human please look if you're listening what i would say to you is i understand that you're under immense pressure from very. 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 earlier we spoke with russia analyst brian mcdonald who thinks the program in the now has done nothing

different from other media outlets the end of day facebook is kind of turn itself into a tool of you know the u.s. government at this stage i mean and i mean for them given the fact that they're based in america given the fact that america is their biggest market it's obviously preferable to be on good terms with the u.s. government to be on bad terms but it's very interesting that they're particularly you know going after stuff connected to russia everybody knows that a nice a particularly the associated with north sea and has been based in russia for many many years nobody was hiding it as far as i know i mean of course i mean it's possible that a casual punter might not necessarily realize that it's connected to to russia in some way but like at the end of day war and hiding it they were not and they were not doing anything different than i knew of the various codes of you know the b.b.c. or the american state broadcaster you know radio free europe or voice of america were doing what they've been pulled up in other other outlets have not facebook's been in contact with russian media explaining that it's updating pages on its

platform with a large audience is and waiting for information to be disclosed concerning location and funding however 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 on t.v. is deputy director for creativity and innovation are the cross he 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 comes from the tipple from the german marshall fund and the follow up on 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 school of another's 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 the russian gauge is out of control the narrative around russia gate the paranoia

of the conspiracy theories where around russia 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 by it but we were on the our two sides were going to suffer. that's when us senator bernie sanders is officially throwing his hat into the ring for the twenty twenty presidential election he's pledging to quote complete the revolution which he started in two thousand and sixteen caleb maupin has the details the independent senator from vermont has announced that once again as he did in two thousand and sixteen he will be running for the democratic nomination for president of the united states here's some of what we've heard from bernie sanders concerning his twenty twenty presidential run. i'm running for president our campaign is not only about the feeding donald trump our campaign is about transforming our country let's recall that in twenty sixteen bernie sanders who

calls himself a democratic socialist ran for president ran for the democratic nomination on a platform of calling for free healthcare for americans free education for americans raising taxes on the wealthy and it was quite popular among younger americans his rallies were really widely attended bigger than both the rallies of hillary clinton and. rally's of donald trump let's take review of some of what went on when bernie sanders ran in two thousand and sixteen for the democratic nomination.

during that campaign it was revealed in e-mails that were made public by wiki leaks that in fact the democratic national committee headed by debbie wasserman schultz had been working to undermine bernie sanders they had been coordinating with the media and doing everything they could to secure the nomination of hillary clinton for the presidential nomination of the democratic party now as a result of that many bernie sanders supporters were very very demoralized and frustrated and yet despite the fact that many of bernie sanders supporters were disgusted and said they would never vote for hillary clinton bernie sanders did in the end but endorsed hillary clinton when she was nominated by the democratic party this is bernie sanders giving his blessing to the nomination of hillary rodham clinton and. to do everything ari can to make certain she will be

the next president. in the aftermath of the twenty sixteen election in which donald trump was elected president we've seen the ideas promoted by bernie sanders become increasingly popular among the democratic party many new democratic socialist have been elected during the midterm congressional elections and his calls for universal health care and a green new deal raising is. shoes of climate change have become increasingly popular so another democratic presidential candidate elizabeth warren confirmed that she agreed with the assessment that the twenty sixteen primary was rigged against bernie sanders this is a liberal war do you agree with the notion that it was rigged yes this is a real problem but what we've got to do is democrats now is we've got to hold this party accountable so many bernie sanders supporters have got to be wondering if indeed this year it will happen will bernie sanders be able to get the nomination for president and will he run against donald trump in the final election for

president of united states in twenty twenty. let's discuss the things bernie now with progressive politician and activist money how lost the money thank you for joining us on the program bernie sanders previews previous attempts to run for president didn't end well did it why do you think he's trying again well actually i mean i you know listen i mean he did women on the nation you know a lot of those progressive believe that the system was very very rigged but he sort of exposed that not only as a system group for working people but it was also great against him by hillary clinton so a lot of us progresses in new york city were extremely upset about that but i think actually what he's trying to do now is to continue his revolution he's really the godfather of democratic socialism you know we believe that bertie say that or sort of lead the way for for the new freshmen women of color in the democrat

you know that were voted to the house like alexandria cortez presently salazar. going to leave all these wonderful women of color burning really sort of opened the door for them for them to actually get voted in so i think what he's trying to do is. i k it didn't work out for free in two thousand and sixteen but he wants to continue and you really does have a program so a lot of us are really hopeful about that as found as really found his niece with the young supporter last time around how do you think his supporters will be this time. well i think you know to be honest you know one of the issue goes durning with bernie is that although he had a lot of support it was sort of the people of color communities of color that didn't come out you know to vote for him so i think right now i think they're

trying to address that i think this. team is trying to hire people you know so it is a more diverse campaign i think they're going to make a push towards getting been already these you know he got the younger people but now is sort of you know people of color that he wants to attract you know but i think you know it's interesting i mean he does have a brand and he really is this godfather of democratic socialism which you know i see what's happening in america is that there's been a real shift to the left and i think people are waking up and his message that you know we need to tax the wealthy corporations are getting all the subsidies on tax benefits while working people are not. i think that message is really resonating so i think that's a good message and i think they'll be very successful with that message the only thing though. as now you see a trend for younger people women of color are being elected so it'll be interesting

to see what happens but you know he does have he does have that brand of being the godfather of you know democratic socialism which i think is helpful monahan's the democratic nomination progressive politician and activist thank you for your time. now to germany where charles langley merkel has sparked outrage among environmental activists by implying recent student protests against climate change were triggered by outside influences as easy or correspondent piece or all of a court protests demanding action on climate change i've seen young people out on the streets of cities across the world including here in germany. was. here. 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 is who believe the fix this hybrid war thing online is hard to the tact because you suddenly have movements that you wouldn't have thought would happen in germany children and all 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 those protests those comments came just after chancellor merkel who had talked about russia as a potential threat well her spokesperson had to step in in the end and clear things up to say that mrs merkel did support the commitment of those protesters but ideas and talk of hybrid warfare doesn't wash with the protesters or their supporters. puts us alongside hybrid war for one except that we are of self organize movement of students apparently the chancellor can't imagine 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 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 state 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 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. one of the seven m. pace to break away from the u.k.'s labor party after quitting over alleged anti semitism within the party's ranks has been embroiled in a racism scandal of her own angelus smith made the highly controversial comments live on t.v. just hours after founding a new political movement here's how it all unfolded. i cannot remain in the party party that i have today come to the sickening conclusion is institutionally anti semitic nobody should be judged by where they come from. just about been called. on it. in a different period from the pm eclipse a bit to the jewish community so. i

am very sorry. that. i know that. this battle. it's not in time. 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 and called on his military to rise up against president. and today i have a message for every official who is helping to keep the duro in place they are risking their future. they are risking their lives you must not follow the

duras orders to block humanitarian he's the commander in chief of the national bolivarian armed forces donald trump from miami. they believe what they are now country the days of socialism and communism are numbered not only in venezuela but in nicaragua thank you. charlie donald trump in miami which is tired rhetoric question the rise of a free country to adopt the ideas of christian human socialism i always say she does and you know almost no speech. it's been almost a month since opposition figurehead wangle i don't declared himself into him president of the impoverished country he's locked in an ongoing power struggle with nicolas maduro and discontinuing to clash with the socialist leader of his refusal to allow us to aid into the country don cohen takes up the story trump called on the venezuelan military figures to accept amnesty from quango i don't know it's

saying that if they don't listen they will lose everything now up to this point there's a venezuelan military officers continue largely to support the elected president nicolas maduro trump says that they are all risking their. if you are and their lives and calls on them are not big order 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 when the pats a big 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 a concert to pressure nicolas maduro to open the border to this so-called earlier to be 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

she threatens speech but the rest of the country like you know this is one of the gun laws and the lady for who you know just pleaded it deserves in principle words for it going to meet the way the means to follow we all do you understand how to do it with those in the world will want to bring the regime change. we will addition and the you know those around and then to say this is the real president and this is a simple solution was what isn't. just in ash and some of the events because if the united states were to get away with some scenes that doesn't look easy there will be a good and we believe if you will still know who nationals from the deal many countries . say. the u.s. and china are heading for another round of talks to try and take some of the hate out of the acrimonious trade issue that has beijing and washington continue that dispute over the chinese technology giant while way which the u.s. is a key is to being

a security and espionage threat. 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 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 that 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 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 intelligence services but the chinese government has long denied any of these accusations saying that the interpretation of this law is one sided and this

conference in this long conflict has been going on for quite a while now last december the company's c.e.o. filming 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. 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 all claims and any connections to the chinese government but it seems that the conflict will not end any time soon we spoke to professor benjamin chaffin the paris business school police the same amount of scrutiny by the us that should be applying to his very own tech companies. of course this is the road to cyprus so if it's as much for uses of google and so are the us in this sense it's

a pointer to stand. on the some countries already relate your promises now that the some of the that you believe might be the science force your home has already the already it's got to. send it off our way because they are not working while we. move so it's a cute it. why do it where you know on. the risk loosing its customers because to perceive a suit you could buy your feet on the market here's. russia and syria have opened to humanitarian corridors near the southern border with jordan to allow people stranded at the rock band refugee camp out there suppose it saves their own is now under threats and without supplies despite being in an area of syria where the u.s. has to support deployed a military base and we can see drone footage from one of the car doors now in

operation militants in the surrounding area have a porter they've been blocking un and syrian humanitarian aid from reaching the camp the world health organization says there are more than forty thousand people stuck there living in severe conditions. we've spoken to syrian president's political and media advisor who claims the u.s. is not in syria to fight terrorism. let's check in the west plan to establish its control over syria and divide our country most likely to gain to relevant experience in afghanistan iraq and libya and didn't predicts back that syria could withstand it or that allies such as russia and iran and as well i would support it but we and our allies undermine us project while the russian presence is stipulated by the need to fight terrorists the aim of the west is to defend them even though they say it isn't you know how many times russia has called on you want us to

coordinate their efforts to question the has to be answered as if both you asked him to remain in syria to fight the terrorist what are the obstacles preventing them joining forces and our experience within the country has shown that when we tried to free time for the u.s. forces opened fire so the terrorists karim and there are still plenty thanks to choosing r.t. international this hour we're back in thirty minutes with the latest. we're witnessing something quite remarkable in the night twenty nine we're watching a country britain that's bad and a nineteenth century bubble really for. the last 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.