thank you it was. both russian and u.s. resolutions on the venezuela trail in the u.n. security council with the two nations vetoing each other's proposals but deepening the stalemate over the latin american country. the second from him summit has abruptly with no deal in a stall over sanctions young man who says washington missed a red chance to make progress and over denuclearizing the three and in. and facebook is accused of censoring conservative voices as a whistleblower reveals how the social network suppresses content and limits exposure. in the course of doing my duties i noticed other things that were going

on accounts i would see it appear arm several different conservative pages and. it's one am here in moscow and you're watching all to international live from our studio with mina deal welcome to the program tensions escalate in the un security council with both russia and the us bringing forward a draft resolutions on the venezuelan crisis however both proposals failed to pass . the can use them with this new that we have finally arrived at the us double sanders show in venezuela a month ago and the day before the security council meeting it became absolutely clear that the majority of countries in the western hemisphere irrespective of their political affiliations are advocating for the resolution to the problems in venezuela i've been as well in people themselves on the basis of dialogue the time

for a peaceful transition to democracy is now each member of the international community that joins in recognizing the government is supporting the people of venezuela as they strive to claim their democracy. crossing live i thought correspondent trinity chavez trinity what can you tell us about what's happened today at the u.n. . both the russian and the u.s. resolutions didn't pass as you said the voting in the u.n. security council the russian one got less votes in favor of that against four in favor and seven against the u.s. straus was vetoed by russia and china the russian ambassador said that if the u.s. resolution had passed it would be the first case in history that the united nations security council deposed a legitimate leader and imposed another one to a sovereign country the venezuelan representative spoke as well calling to stop interfering into the matters of his country so the diplomatic community in on the

crossroads is on the crossroads again the u.n. members who spoke after the voting called so all of their colleagues to put their differences aside to resolve venezuelan crisis. reporting in new york trinity chavez our team. thank you very much for the update trente chavez there reporting from new york things. that were high hopes and how nice but both donald trump and came on have come away empty handed from their much anticipated second summit the talks ended earlier than expected with the u.s. president blaming north korea's demands over lifting sanctions for the failure to cut a deal it came as a surprise to many after the optimism shared by both leaders before the talks.

took the first summit was a great success and the biggest one hopefully will be equal or greater than the first great credit or is it. safe. you are going to. deal. with a little bit better. always have to be prepared to walk i could have started to the greens today and then you people would have said all of what a terrible deal what a terrible thing to do you know you have to be prepared to walk we actually had papers ready to be side but it just wasn't appropriate i want to do it right i'd

much rather do it right and do it fast. the north korean foreign ministry has since issued a statement claiming they did not or sanctions to be lifted just most of them they also said washington had missed. their position on. will not. only sums up what became a fleeting second day of the summit. talks were cut short because no agreement was made the two were actually supposed to have lunch and have a signing ceremony which never happened the reason behind that was because the leader of north korea actually wanted the sanctions on pyongyang lifted. what we proposed was not the removal of all sanctions but their partial removal this proposal was the biggest equalization measure we can take at the present stage in relation to the current level of confidence between the d.p. r. k.

and the united states our principles remain invariable and our proposal will never be changed even though the united states proposed further negotiations in the future basically they wanted these sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that. they were willing to do new go largely portion of the areas that we wanted but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for the total trumps he cannot give up entirely the sanctions it cannot give just whatever the leader wanted so what he said is that it was in a good time to actually sign the deal and sometimes that's what great leaders do they just walk away for something to happen later on to potentially get actually get a bit of a better deal and what's interesting also here to point out is that he also mentioned that it's been a productive time between the two but i guess as you also repeal the seeing that the deal was made because of the u.n. sanctions that he didn't agree with now didn't decide on what's going to happen on

the korean peninsula whether they're going to dismantle all or the nuclear facilities but what he did promise was no missiles will be flying over the korean peninsula and the time being now if there's going to be a third summit that not clearly see if it's going to happen but there was kind of open when that when it was mentioned another interesting factor to point out is that the two leaders of the regional leaders of korea and japan would be very very interesting the on their reactions on how what they have to see the outcome of this deal because if anyone has to lose it's pretty much them to. go back to our top story now competing russian u.s. resolutions on the venezuelan crisis have failed to pass in the u.n. security council they both vetoed each other's proposals going to discuss this with michael maloof former pentagon security policy michael thanks for coming into the program now we've seen those two resolutions on fail can the u.n. security council achieve anything here do you think. no not at all i

don't think so i i think that this was just an effort on there on the part of the united states and initially to to try to try to garner. international support but. but of course it was it was that that proposal was that was vetoed i think that you have you have us really politically and politically trying to do another regime change down there even though i'm a juror was elected and and and with elliott abrams as the as the envoy to venezuela it just it just reeks with neo conservatives trying to once again do regime change in areas that they feel is in their interest yeah i mean that was clear if you're watching the u.n. security council meeting the russian envoy it was clear in supporting the do are

saying that you know. the decision should be made easing the legitimate government and the u.s. for a very clear when they michaela in suggesting. well well claiming then saying and stating that they were supporting the interim self-proclaimed president. the mechanism is obviously not working what's the alternative michael. well i think they're going to have to. i mean if i had the solution to that problem that would be there would be pretty good but. there's got to be a recognition that you don't go around trying to have regime change every time this is what what we saw in syria what we saw and in iraq compliments of the neo cons in washington and. and in the case of in the case of venezuela there's more of a geo political geo strategic argument that's been made here and that's why the

u.s. is so. so much involved they're very concerned about. chinese and russian influence coming into the into this area and they don't like the government in those areas and and just as they did in iran back in the fifty's they want to overthrow they want to overthrow the government of the go like and you can't do this they did in the ukraine and this kind of stuff is just got to stop and if people have problems it's really up to the people of the country to decide the fate of the leadership in the country itself and they. but this has a lot of high stakes venezuela's only one instance we see it also again and in the middle east and and with john bolton as the national security advisor and trump goes along with him we've got a lot of problems ahead of us we've got a lot of confrontation ahead of us that we're going to have to deal with ok we'll leave it there michael michael olea full of pentagon security policy on this things

coming into the program michael. thank you. transparency great project veritas has exposed what it claims is a series of tools used by facebook to target politically conservative pages and restrict their content without warning they include classing posts as hate speech limiting live streams and suppressing the reach of posts a process known as boosting his the whistleblower behind the claims i.e. handled copyright and trademark claims and in the course of doing my duties i noticed other things that were going on in accounts and that is why i came forward i would see it appear on several different conservative pages but what exactly did the former facebook employee find you know got more not for the correspondent nick earring. what has been revealed all this whistleblower is alleging to have uncovered four she described as methods of suppression being used by facebook tolls

that would d. boost the traffic of accounts considered to be a conservative leaning meaning that their followers would receive notifications whenever these pages these accounts dates their profiles in some cases content was allegedly removed without even letting the users know now this insider who formerly worked in the intellectual property department of facebook has stumbled across these goings on she said when she noticed them unusual goings on with some accounts first i was wondering whether this is something. i had you know a couple working theories i was like maybe this is an independent versus mainstream thing maybe independent thinkers on the left are experiencing the same kind of de boosting but i didn't see that i looked at. the young turks page i love that column capper next page none of them had received the same d boost but you know she's not the only one that's coming out with similar allegations there's

another facebook employee who is exposed how such tools are being applied to certain accounts that facebook deems to be offensive or contain hate speech conservative side of things the. point is that there's a lot of stuff being said on the left that is not involved in these posts it's not essentially what you see it's all one sided exactly and facebook is targeting certain post it doesn't particularly like with terms such as offensive in haste these terms of being used broadly things that are actually hate speech but that might. offend somebody. you know anything that is perceived as hateful even though no court would define it as hate speech now if they found the geishas are proven to be accurate it would be another blow for their facebook name especially seeing how it contradicts what the c.e.o. mark zuckerberg told congress when he said he didn't want his company acting on the political ideology of contents we have reached out to facebook for

a comment on these alleged boosting tools they haven't got back to us so far he also said they're going. after the twenty sixteen election so it's conflicting kind of comments from. his point would be though how do we know these claims are actually credible when they're going out into the press it is a whistle blower or how do we know she's telling the truth what we do know that she definitely did work for facebook because although facebook didn't get back to as they did respond to another media outlet who they told. that was she must have been a disgruntled former employee so we know she definitely worked for them and they say that she was fired when they found out she was working with project veritas what she brought out is has been verified that this is happening on the conservative side of things but what we know well it wouldn't be surprising because it's not the first time a social media giant has been outed by project veritas as well last year we had the

allegations with twitter when project veritas released undercover first to twitter employees staff apparent to admit to silencing conservatives they were saying how they used the algorithms to bury particular tweet was that interview was the worst of them were exactly so users weren't seeing what these or particular people were posting because they were being buried by these algorithms twitter at the time denied any complicity in the actions of its stuff but the most worrying thing here is that it exposes this impression that these social media giants like facebook and twitter that so many of us use pretty much on a daily basis could have political leaning or not has to resist implication the us if we speak with me years ago he would have been that important because it didn't have so much import in the lives of young people there's millions of people becoming voters sixteen eighteen year olds and they put a lot into social media so this is why it's becoming a huge issue and it's we're not going to hear the end of this for some time indeed

the power of social media on the example of how facebook is clamping down is that it's banned british and his law make activists tony robinson from the platform and instagram to. win ideas and opinions cross the line and amount to hate speech that may create an environment of intimidation and exclusion for certain groups in society in some cases with potentially dangerous offline implications we take action tommy robinson's facebook page has repeatedly broken the standards posting material that uses dehumanizing language and calls for violence targeted at muslims he has also behaved in ways that violate our policies around organized hate. robinson's band fired up his supporters online complaining the move is a politically motivated step to censor free speech others praise the ban for targeting hate speech social media companies have been stepping up efforts to block content that steamed offensive but there's wide disagreement over what point online

policing becomes censorship it's very clear that if used to join the social media giant company the pages and you set up your own page then you have to abide by their rules and regulations and when you don't peddle hate want to you don't tarnish our you know. legitimize the. you know that racism and xenophobia towards just muslims are just innocent acceptable and the fact that you are called out for your hatred should be welcome this is censorship the online world is the new public sphere and it's wrong that major corporations like facebook like instagram have the power to remove opinions from public consideration and him drawing attention to what he sees to be the radicalization of britain and i don't agree with his position on that point but i think the really worrying thing is that these arguments about islam are now being

pushed out the public square into a sphere where they're not being challenge to not being considered think that inevitably brings with it certain obligations to stand up and defend freedom of speech well it's not about freedom of speech i mean would freedom of speech comes responsibility so if you want to criticize and question you slam on muslims then that's ok in a free society and what isn't acceptable is to perpetuate the hatred towards one particular community looking at the crimes of just one particular community and then not expect there to be a reaction so i'm really glad that these social media companies i work with it's easy for people to now conclude that there is this mission on behalf of social media companies to and censor right wing opinions out of the mainstream you know the significant precedent for this now the idea that facebook is silence in the far right is laughable what facebook is doing is saying if you peddle hate and lies about a community if you tarnish a whole community if you are the k.

or encourage violence towards that community then action will be taken and that's what's been done i'm not someone of the right but i recognise that that is a real problem because it gives all of these individuals a chance to say that their arguments are too dangerous to hear and if the public square is good for anything it's good for china. i'm being with arguments and the more we try and push this underground the more those ideas will go unchallenged they'll reach people without interruption they'll meet they'll be communicated to people without having any contrary point of view put forward and i think that is why i said the ship is always so dangerous. and he hopes in britain of relying on postponing leaving the theater hurdle across the english channel the french president is vowing to block britain delaying its departure unless there's a clear objective based on a new choice bags it date is just

a few weeks away on march the twenty ninth. you know to do the deal news for g. the withdrawal would grim and cannot be renegotiated the british need more time will be able to examine an extension request if that is justified by new choices from the british but we cannot in any case accept an extension without a clear perspective from the pursued objective is our negotiating michel barnier said we don't need time above all we need decisions the time has come for the british to make choices and to offer us what we owe each other as partners friends and allies namely a clear vision a joint project for the future. for britain to extend the withdrawal process known as article fifty even as most unanimously agree to it and the french presence but the only one is patience is wearing thin the spanish prime minister echoed emanuel micron saying that prolonging uncertainty by perspiring deadlines is neither a reasonable nor desirable alternative the german chancellor was more conciliatory

though saying the e.u. won't say no if britain needed more time. despite more than two years to get a plan in place for its future relationship with the news there's still nothing in place prime minister to raise and is struggling to get past m.p.'s having lost a series of votes if it fails again on march the twelfth give m.p.'s the chance to decide on whether to crash out of the e.u. with no deal or seek to delay the leaving date brussels based journalist if they talk to me about what macron wants from pretty. well based on a new choice he says you know europeans for once are in agreement on this and they are right in a way we should values that you know we don't need time with the decisions so the brits should decide they have the suited for two years they have a deal it is a bit wishy washy the remain as in britain don't like it the brits it is don't like it so mrs may tries to sell it to our parliament in westminster already for some

time and she can't and she comes back to brussels to renegotiate but the european say no thank you you have a real reason for renegotiating or for asking three more months no reason so march twenty ninth should be the right date and if they leave without a deal they don't need to pay the forty five billion euro that europe asks them to pay so it would not be such a bad deal to go. and major french sporting goods retailer has dropped plans to sell a sports version of the hit up in france decathlon said it had hoped to build on the successful sales the government generated in morocco charged by the idea spawn controversy before even reaching the shelves. it's incredible how such a small piece of material can cause such a commotion but here in france that's exactly what's happened over plans by the retailer to cast on just stop a sports version of a hit job a muslim headscarf. as

well as an outpouring of twitter outrage several politicians have called for a boycott of to cast all. sport emancipates it does not submit my choice as a woman and a citizen would be to no longer trust a brand that breaks with our values the french health minister has also waded into the debate to the gods. it's legal but it's a vision of women that i do not share i think it does not fit well with the values of our country. hearts is a secular country with a hit job as well as the christian cross have been banished from state classrooms and also from government offices no religious symbols outlawed and in fact there were a common sight on the streets of france but many argue that face and body covering garments such as those worn by loosely women are seen as being

a method to subjugate them but others including castle say such items make it easier for muslim women to take part in activities such as sports interest emotional screwed if. we win should be able to wear whatever they like forbidden to seal this clothes is just ridiculous first came a shock to me and they have to cancel the sales it's not an act of secularism i will not go so far as to say islamophobia but it's very anti slavic. people should dress according to their own tastes i don't think there's much controversy about this issue people with pick you choose to merit a masters practiced so if she wants to wear it you know it's her choice but the backlash has been. so big that even to capital star say they have been frightening . our customer service team has received over five hundred calls and e-mails since this morning our teams in our stores have been insulted and threatened sometimes

physically before the florida supreme court out of the starting blocks the force of the opposition saw the capitol back down it would no longer sell at the sports he job here but it's a no win situation for the retailer which is also being criticized the pandering to collective hysteria that reveals the level of islamophobia here in france jollity been ski nazi paris right turn online activist to money to pay and to petition young from the french national rally party had their say on the issue. we choose to cover up because it places our body on our terms independent of the male gaze it's necessary for us to have the different options available for different types of one it that's the whole point is that especially in industries like fashion actually take up some fully supported decision to quit the. sport he checked on the french market in their stores it was only after there was

a huge public outcry. that stacy crawled back so you know basically don't has no scruples could become known as a capitalist company they only want to make profits and they weren't forced they were forced to take the. oath of their shows here in france because of the huge pressure from the public. that's on news this hour sean thomas will be back around thirty minutes time with more updates but in the meantime stay tuned for the kinds of reports. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v.

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