identity crisis facebook now claims it's a publisher not just a platform in a legal case but it could have a major impact on what's posted on the site. also this hour austrian m.p.'s want to pull the plug on a huge trade deal between latin america and the e.u. on the fires in the amazon although european firms are working with companies linked to the destruction of the rainforest. and a major international military exercise in central russia and to its final stage but china and india among the participants.

you're watching international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has met with president donald trump as part of his d.c. tour the social media platforms chief is looking to defend his company amid mounting criticism by lawmakers over privacy issues and data protection and the recent legal case facebook claimed it is a publisher and is therefore allowed to ban who it once but potentially that would also make it liable for what goes out on its platform responsibility it's previously tried to dodge and they are trying to look at the potential ramifications. water out of we've got here. that's better. plaintive ultra right activist laura luma who was taken off pretty much all major online platforms defendant facebook one of the giants which kicked

her out we carefully flicked through these court papers which the defendant filed could fly and bury the lawsuit and here's what really caught the eye. to the extent miss lewis claimed targets facebook's decision to deactivate her accounts it is also deficient on the well established law made the facebook nor any of the publisher can be liable for failing to publish someone else's message 1st amendment provides absolute protection for such decisions what was it again either facebook nor any other publisher protection by the 1st amendment so in this particular case the lawyers of sucking co are happy to legally refer to their social network as up publisher digging a bit deeper will reveal facebook has done that in the past as well when last year an app startup was crossing swords with facebook in court this is what came from the network spent the top discretion is

a 3 speechwriter respective what technological means is used so is it just me or something's wrong with how the platform we use every day identifies itself because when facebook bosses take questions in other places it seems they always try to distance themselves from the notion publisher which are you are you a tech company or are you the world's largest publisher because i think that goes to a really important question on what form of regulation or government action if any we would take. senator this is. a really big question i view us as a tech company because the primary thing that we do is build technology and products are you responsible for your content which make exactly on of a publisher. well i agree that we're responsible for the content we don't produce the content and that's been the message for quite a while. we are

a tech company not a media company. i do think we have to be the publisher and we definitely don't want to be the arbiter of the truth now just imagine what kind of legal trouble the tech giant may put itself in if it becomes universally recognized the company mr zuckerberg is running is a publisher not just a tech platform are they really ready to be responsible for anything disturbing or outright criminal that gets posted under the blue logo the examples have been out there in abundance. the law or what have simply someone decides to lawyer and bully me with all kinds of offensive stuff right on facebook should i then also followed a defamation suit against the network because they as

a publisher alloted it's well known you can have a cake and eat it at the same time will probably lots your last name is sucker burg . we've asked facebook for comment on the story but so far no response but we also got opinion from legal and media analyst lionel. what is facebook now when mark zuckerberg spoke before congress he said we're just a tech company i just made the platform available for people to say what they were on not publishing i don't put out of pinions i'm just like a billboard in catch the way people get around the idea of of perhaps allowing defamatory or libelous statements and the like now they're saying we're publishers we have the right to have anybody on that we want well if you're a publisher under defamation law libel law you can be held accountable and liable

for the longest time facebook push trying to have it both ways if i want to t.v. station and i say something defamatory about you organisation the t.v. station the magazine they're liable to because they broadcast it they put this libelous statement out so what's it going to be facebook do you want the liability that comes with being a publisher or do you want to just merely be a tech platform and if you want to be just a tech platform you have to make up your mind because you can't limit speech you can't act like a publisher unless you are a publisher. austrian m.p.'s are urging vienna to veto a major trade deal between the e.u. and south america they're unhappy about the way brazil is handling the large scale amazon fires similar concerns have been expressed by france and germany however many e.u. businesses do work with firms that have a direct connection to the fires. explains it's an environmentalist would.

walt fly is raging in the amazon destroying the wolves most biodiverse tropical rain forest. our house is burning literally the amazon rainforest the lungs which produce 20 percent of our planet's oxygen is on fire as an international crisis i couldn't agree more manual macro we need to act for the amazon and for our planet talk kids and grandkids accounting on the lines of the entire earth our frac to and that's why we need to find common solutions here leaders of the globe's most advanced countries pledged to do more at the g 7 the heat may have died down but the blame game certainly hasn't with some looking closely at where the amazon wu's may. europe's financial institutions the companies and the

financier is housed in those countries are contributing to the forestation many of these companies are known to have unsuitable practices in their supply chain to be clearing areas for the expansion of agriculture especially pursuing cattle so yeah and cattle ranching account for 80 percent of deforestation major companies such as a.t.m. call gail j.b.s. are being financed by some of us biggest banks including b m p paragraphs don't spank and block walk they not only bankroll the debt they're also major shareholders with a voice in how these companies are run so areas of the amazon are sometimes. to provide all earned for cows to graze or to grow crops to feed life stock these european banks are directly funding the forestation do it your bank and he black rock in vanguard collectively more than

a 1000000000 dollars in debt in just the 3 largest saw in the 3 largest cattle companies operating in brazil are these even banks often vocal about their sustainability policies. are also being accused of hypocrisy environmental campaign group amazon watch contacted them about their role in the amazon was fine as well deutsche bank and blackhawk didn't respond b.m.p. paragraphs had to say the m.p. paribus has been strengthening the sec to policies related to deforestation for several years and this prompted his clients to protect natural like of systems and preserve biodiversity to the best of their abilities that experts say is just simply not good enough we can encourage that use it findings here take a role in requiring that the companies have certain standards they doubt deforestation commitments that they implement those commitments and then they were

poor on their progress to address the deforestation with in their supply chains given that even if they're not producing these materials or directly clearing the forests they have a role to play in ensuring that that clearance doesn't happen without the traceability and the accountability of all actors involved including here in europe the fear is that our house will continue to show. off powers we've asked archer bank to comment on their links to the deforestation of the amazon although so far they have not responded. now to central russia where a major international military exercise has just entered its final stage apart from the hosts china and india are also taking part the drill aims to take cooperation between the neighbors to a new level in the face of ice alike terror threats among the spectators as president vladimir putin apart from watching the maneuvers he's also meeting with his critics and counterpart there.

this is a very loud the press of spectacle the simulated food terrorists of predictably being beaten back and just a few needs is away from us we have military observers from all over the world i counted at least a dozen nato badges watching the show watching the spectacle glad to be a putin with the present. in the stands as well 20 meters away from us but there's a purpose to this isn't just a shoe for enjoyment to a spectacle this is an exercise to form a unity to form corporations between asian nations asian states that are threatened

by islamic radicalism and this is their effort to sort of get to get to know each other get to work together even india and pakistan odds with each other open conflict working together here behind me as i reported earlier the story is radical islamist terrorists of come to power and simulated central asian republic they've formed a quasi caliph if you will and the mission. it is to stop them to prevent them from seizing any more territory they come into possession of advanced weapons of being belligerent towards participating nations and participating 8 countries representing a good heart full of the world's population china india pakistan russia as well as for central asian republics their mission is to stop the terrorists and prevent

them from taking any more territory to defend themselves the military contingency representing those 8 nations amanda 128000 troops as well as 20000 vehicles and tanks of all time on tiller air defense missiles systems as well as 600 aircraft including drones the military exercises themselves are stretched over a 6 day period across a variety of different battlefields and today the ground crescendo the objective is to hold an enemy attack knock out their cruise missiles and at the end go on the offensive and crush them the point of these military exercises isn't to show off the participating nations to some degree will face the threat of radical extremism and the point of these war games is to make sure that if worst comes to worse than these people come to power the bug dissipating nations can present

a united front to stop an enemy that has demonstrated it is remorseless merciless and capable of anything. several 100 people have gathered in the nevada desert and the us under the rallying cry of storm area $51.00 what started as a joke campaign to break into the us military base has ended up attracting about 2000000 supporters on facebook with many claiming the american government is hiding your photos their artist or quarter pics of the story. it's the day we've all been waiting for a chance to discover we've been contacted by aliens over 2000000 people have already said they're going to storm area 51 a top secret u.s. military base it's notoriously connected to u.f.o. sightings and 2 teens have already gotten their feet wet trespassers caught near area $5012.00 men from the netherlands arrested after getting 3 miles inside the

nevada national security site morning the truth is out there but so are the police busting 2 dutchman they say were trying to sneak a peek at area 51 the legendary classified base in nevada supposedly home to little green men in their spaceships it was just a joke at 1st a facebook event encouraging people to storm the mysterious space. we will meet up in rural nevada and cooled neato in policies if we know who to run we can move faster than their bullets let's see the millions even the guy who came up with the idea wasn't taking it too seriously it was all fun and games until the f.b.i. came knocking on his door thinking he could be a terrorist it started out as from a pure stroke of imagination it's just meant to be funny i want to do something cool out there now that we have a bunch of people but i don't want anybody to get hurt still that hasn't stopped people from jumping on the bandwagon maybe most will just stick to being keyboard warriors and chicken out at the last minute ok but the authorities are not treating

this as a joke which may just be adding to the curiosity. all joking aside we're taking it very seriously on nation has secrets and those secrets deserve to be protected secrets well they've got to be important because extra security and barricades have already been prepared in anticipation of the hoard it also doesn't help that several videos have surfaced in recent years of supposedly u.f.o. sightings all captured by u.s. navy pilots. and the navy only added fuel to the fire of speculation when it labeled those objects and identified aerial phenomena the navy does ignatz the objects contained in these videos as identified aerial phenomenon the unidentified aerial phenomena terminology is used because it provides the basic descriptor for the slicing

observations of. objects that have been observed entering operating in the as space various military controlled training ranges government secrecy always will fuel all kinds of speculation when you have a government that is not transparent it's going to lose the confidence of the people this was the lesson of the soviet union it's the lesson of the united states today where there is a lack of transparency where people know that they're not getting the truth from their government on a large number of matters area 51 and you of those in general have never gone away in the public imagination certainly not in the united states. there have been many sightings of apparent us those in the vicinity of area 51 and people know about that and there's always been the stories so. i think it just captured the imagination of a lot of people we might not know how many people are really going to this area 51

of em but one thing's for sure. the u.s. government is acting like it's got something to hide donald quarter archie. a russian actor jailed for 3 and a half years for allegedly attacking a police officer at a protest is release that placed under a travel ban we'll tell you why after this short break. seemed wrong. wrong just don't call. me. yet to say proud disdain become active. engagement because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

but. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand the news business is just the dance the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. welcome back a young russian actor who was detained during an opposition protests and moscow has been released though under a travel ban on his case galvanize support from activists especially in the acting

community will get more now from maria no one has been following the case for us so maria bring us up to speed. yes hi indeed most court has changed previous decision and populist enough has been released under the travel ban russia's general prosecutor's office as well as the country's own woodsmen all have been calling for so often in the initial punishment for these young men but many believe that today's decision is not about that but rather a victory of a civil society and 100 percent result of unified action is an aphorism and solidarity of people who simply believed had been convicted wrongfully and that was exactly what pavel sr and his mom talked about after the decision was announced let's take a listen look at the absolutely. everyone for this the media the public ordinary people and actors and even the prosecutor who finally heard us

today i was sitting in the hearing with a new film because everything is different now it was obvious that after so much support from the public the decision would change now he can be at home it's a victory for all of us that's true pavel's case caused an unprecedented wave of defiance and support from celebrities to ordinary people we saw them lining up for what is known as one man protest this is the easiest legal way of protesting demonstrating here in russia there was also a massive online can paint for support of. the actors and other public figures publishing their video statement and demanding his release let's take a listen let's take a look at this we do this is. really beautiful. but just as that will says we have just finished a performance of jesus christ superstar and we actors from the more so if you're theater express support for our colleague travel stina receiving this. i'm joined

in the freedom to. no job yes to justice as for this tragic movie. we sincerely express so full support for him and his family patients the whole justice will prevail you. earlier monday pov a listing of 23 year old russian actor was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison for violence 'd against a police officer during his arrest at an authorised opposition rally in central most going early august but before that short of the moment of the arrest of populist you know it was published and pavol was seen there walking normally in the middle of the square your mind other people before him for a policeman. or a riot gear with rubber sticks got him to the ground and actually the b. dude did not give the answer to the obvious question what happened before that moment and why police officers single pavol among all the people in the square by

was very strong and when the judge refused to use this video as an added a huge massive campaign protest can paint started that let us here today has been released under a travel ban back to you r t is maria finish the thank you for bringing us that report. a major american pharmaceutical company has started bankruptcy proceedings after being accused of creating an opiate epidemic producer for my husband slapped with a multi-billion dollar fine as a settlement for some 2 and a half 1000 lawsuits but nobody is likely to go to jail as killable explains purdue pharmaceutical. recently found liable for the opioid epidemic has filed for bankruptcy it's reached an agreement for a settlement with 22 different state attorney generals regarding its malfeasance and the lawsuits now some attorney generals are saying it's not enough it should

not be about billionaires looking to use the bankruptcy process as a vehicle to further shield their assets and escape accountability this proposed deal isn't worth nearly what they say it is it doesn't require the sac there is to pay back a dime of the billions of dollars they sucked out of purdue through the sales. over the last many years now the opioid epidemic has claimed roughly 400000 lives so paying a big fine does seem a bit lenient right well you'll notice that none of these prosecutors are talking about jailing big pharma execs and they can't it's a civil suit not a criminal case but that raises the question when a big corporation makes reckless decisions in pursuit of its own profits if they sold more they made more money yes that's not the same ones. every other company in the industry and their actions result in the deaths of

hundreds of thousands of people shouldn't they face some kind of very severe or real panel think attorneys general. various states where you. should be looking very seriously at the conduct of the jewels and consider the criminal prosecution if those individuals if the elements of the crimes that they've committed are clear if agreement was brought to bear on those responsible this type of conduct would be unlikely to be repeated well the u.s. legal system doesn't seem to work that way back in the early 2002 nears that general motors put an ignition switch in a very dangerous spot where drivers could inadvertently turn it off by accident it was. very dangerous and as a result 124 people died rather more the company actively tried to cover this up even works to darrelle a recall so what happened well the c.e.o. got grilled by the u.s. senate my sincere apologies to everyone who has been affected by this recall i am

deeply sorry but did anyone go to jail no g.m. got fined 900000000 dollars and haddocks production closely monitored by the government for 3 years but did anyone go to jail for actions that resulted in taking over 100 innocent lives no there are principles in. corporations that are in this country but around the world who are criminal liability because of the power and the money they do to me and some of the people in these companies who contribute to the. description to do it in the united states knew that they were likely to be criminally prosecuted if they were identified they would twice or 3 times or not engage in that behavior but for average americans who kill people or commit violent crimes the penalties are not so soft the united states has the biggest prison population of any country in the world it's also the only western

country to still practice the death penalty and sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole are handed out in the united states all the time jurors heard 2 days of testimony about goals because difficult childhood goldsby himself asked the jury for mercy but 8 jurors still favored the death penalty it might. do that you have to serve at the ceiling so the rule of american justice seems to be kill one person in a fit of rage you're going to jail maybe even for life but kill hundreds or maybe even thousands of people in pursuit of bigger profits for your shareholders well just pay a fine and don't lose too much sleep over it ok will pop and r.t. new york that's a global news update for this hour thanks for tuning in. the

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are happy. to see. the federal reserve lowers interest rates will this add to specs. elation of a looming recession and new poll numbers show joe biden and elizabeth warren gaining supporters and leaving the rest of the democratic pack well behind what's driving their favorable numbers it's all next on this edition of pounds.

welcome to politicking i'm matthew cook in for larry king on wednesday the federal reserve cut interest rates for a 2nd time this year by a quarter percent will this action increase the fears of a coming recession and how might that impact the 2020 alexion and a brand new n.b.c. news wall street journal poll conducted after the last democratic debate shows joe biden and elizabeth warren both gaining ground and leaving their challengers well behind what's behind the strength of the new front runners and how might the rest of the pack adjust their campaigning as a result of this poll let's talk about that with the political panel they are chris wilson he was director of research and digital strategy for ted cruz's 2016 presidential campaign and he's in oklahoma city and in atlanta robin by road democratic strategist.