she. just did something active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. identity crisis facebook now claims it's a public shirt not just a platform a legal case which could have a major impact on what's posted on the site. also this hour all strain m.p.'s want to pull the plug on a huge trade deal between latin america and the e.u. over fires at me amazon although european firms are working with companies a link to the destruction of the rainforest. and a major international military exercise in central russia enters its final stage which

china and india among the participants. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. 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 are privacy issues and data protection and a 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 its previously tried to dodge it trying to look at the potential ramifications. water out of we 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 need to facebook know 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 thought discretion is if 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 made exactly the end of a publisher. well i agree that we're responsible for the content but 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 more outright criminal that gets posted under the blue logo the examples have been out there in abundance. it was . or what if simply someone decides to lawyer and bully me with all kinds of offensive stuff right on facebook should i then also follow defamation suit against

the network because they as a publisher a lot of it's well known you can have a cake and eat it at the same time or probably what's your last name a sucker berg meanwhile the social media giant is setting up a special operation board that will be reviewing content disputes discoveries have dubbed it the supreme court of facebook the 40 member body it will make binding decisions on cases brought by the platform or theaters it's had to be completely independent from facebook even though it's partially funded by the company we asked technology expert bill new for his views on the initiative. if facebook goes against the recommendation then it's going to need to be a just a fully why it isn't paying the recommendations of that particular moment in time well it may be because it will take some time for things to be done in a particularly new it may be that funding or the significant nature is who may not

be. conflict with other initiatives that may seem like the same purpose a different. it's. cool but it goes against the recommendations will lead to to be able to just a foot so we hope. it will be able to avoid that just because. 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 fire 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 as are to charlotte devinsky explains it's an environmentalist would not back walt fully 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 are counting on us the lungs 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 woos 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 the force in how these companies are run so areas of the amazonas sometimes. to provide all earned for cows to graze or to grow crops to feed life's stock these european banks are directly linked 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 blackrock 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 lack 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 finally is yours he can rule in requiring that the companies have certain standards the doubt deforestation commitments that they implement those commitments and that 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 also asked archer bank to comment on their links to the deforestation of the amazon so far no response. meanwhile climate protests are being staged around the world today and just behind me you can see live pictures from an event taking place right now in london but more than 5000 votes are being held mobley including in cities like sydney and new delhi and i will be a march through new york city led by the prominent young activist group from demonstrators are calling on world leaders who are gathering un climate change summit taking action to promote what they say i think mobile catastrophe. out of central russia where a major international military exercise has just entered its final stage apart from the host. china and india are also taking part the drill insta take cooperation between the neighbors to a new level and they face i saw it like terror threats among the spectators as

president vladimir putin apart from watching the maneuvers he's also meeting his kurdistan counterparts. this is a very loud the press of spectacle the simulated food climate terrorists of predictably being beaten back and just a few meters 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 call peroration 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 that if you will and the mission is to stop them to prevent them from seizing any more territory they come into possession of advanced weapons and being belligerent to woo. participating nations and participating are 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 grand 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 that the participating nations can present a united front to stop an enemy that has demonstrated that it is remorseless merciless and capable of anything. that's not bring in political commentator and journalist john why not the u.s. air force his top commander in europe has warned russia that its exclave of kaliningrad is in nato's crosshairs in case of a military conflict do you think that statement coincided with the drill just by chance. no that's certainly not the case the americans are discomforted by these drones and this go in coordination has taken place between russia and china in particular and the other countries involved hugely significant is about to sufficient of india and pakistan of course at a time when there are tensions over kashmir of the very very high and given us

notable enmity that has existed between both countries who this is a testament in tribute to the deployed diplomacy of china russia and bringing these countries into and to this agreement under the auspices of the shanghai cooperation organization but no the americans are a bit discomfort the best trained there's a growing trend of cooperation between countries in central asia and it makes perfect sense given that the face colman today it's especially with regards to global terrorism but also given the instability of the u.s. led you new poll order which is tending itself to pieces the tit dysfunctionality of the trumpet ministration everybody can see for themselves. the centrifugal force is at the heart of the e.u. brics except and still here we see an example all the rising of the multiple world in the east at the same time as the setting of the unit will in the west. the kind of reaction do you think we would see if a top russian military official said something to the same a fact about

a european country. or there would be one omega key to the cause of the huge outpouring of anger there would be coals for u.n. sanctions if he calls for military and increased military deployment be seen as a center of war we see michael pos blandish statement was aghast to the take on the saudi oil installation it was an act of war so even any investigation and even sitting down to think about negotiating or diplomacy so when it comes to the u.s. and its portion in the world will we see is saber rattling bellicosity and belligerence from russia and china who see diplomacy and negotiation and the painstaking art of statesmanship on late the us which we have unfortunately see. masquerading as statesmanship now back to drill for themselves how would you assess the level of cooperation between the participating states especially in light of

the continued instability in afghanistan was vitally important in this cooperation deepens that there is more integration that there's more cookies in between those countries because we don't know what's going to unfold in afghanistan as we speak the taliban said to be taken over the country the negotiations with the americans has failed to largely to trump and his again his dysfunctionality in terms of how he operates in diplomacy by tweet he's a very capricious president as putting out lately and so we don't know what's going unfold on its own it's very important for the countries who are in the region to have some sort of who are against any eventuality nothing which goes some way to achieving that political commentator and journalist john white thank you for your time and your comments. still to come your fellow fans and alien hunters alike descend on the nevada desert with the u.s. military apparently spooked they might actually storm the infamous area 51 that's

on the other side of this play. you know world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. make this manufactured insensitive to the public well. when the ruling

classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round listen to the one percent. we can all middle of the room sit. in the real news room. welcome back a young russian actor who was detained during an opposition protest in moscow has been released now under a travel ban his case galvanize support from activists especially in the acting community here's mary if national with more details. court has changed previous decision and part of a listing of has been released under a travel ban russia's general prosecutor's office as well as the country's own woodsman all had been calling for softening the initial punishment for these young

men but many believe that today's decision is not about that but rather about a victory of a civil society and 100 percent result of unified actions and afterwards and solidarity of people who simply believed that pavol o'steen of had been convicted wrongfully and that was exactly what puzzles sr and his mom talked about after the decision was announced that there are lots that are in thank everyone for this the media the public originary 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 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 and there was also a massive online campaign with actors and other public figures publishing their video statements in support for. demanding his release the gist of that which was we have just finished a performance of jesus christ superstar and we actors from the most soviet theater express our support for our colleague pavel stina. i'm joining the flash mob freedom to brother no job russian yes to justice as for this tragic case involving a little steam if we sincerely express our full support for him and his family patience the whole justice will prevail. earlier monday populous state. 23 year old russian actor was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison for violence against a police officer during his arrest at an unauthorized opposition rally in central moscow in 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 in mind other people before for a policeman in full gear riot gear with rubber sticks got him to the ground and actually the the 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 pain protest pain started that led us here today have a listing of has been released and a travel ban. some $1500.00 people have gathered in the nevada desert in the u.s. under the rolling cry of storm area $51.00 what started as a joke campaign to break into the u.s. military base has ended up attracting about 2000000 supporters on facebook but many

claiming the americans government is hiding the photos there are quarter picks up the story. of 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 event of national security sites this morning the truth is out there but so are the police busting to 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 all

meet up in rural nevada and coordinate own parties if we know who to run we can move faster than their bullets let's see them allianz 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 and started out as just 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. thank you very much. ok. and the navy only added fuel to the fire of speculation when it labeled those objects and identified aerial phenomena movie does ignatz the objects contained in these videos is only been to find a real phenomenon the unidentified aerial phenomena terminology is used because it provides the basic descriptor for the city observations of. objects that have been observed entering operating in the is 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 oppose in general have never gone away in the public imagination certainly not in the united states. there have been many sightings of apparent u.f.o.'s 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 that but one thing's for sure u.s. government is acting like it's got something to hide donald quarter. that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. israel's

parliamentary elections to begin ended in deadlock. is divided divided on the political right sitting prime minister benjamin netanyahu says it's either my right wing blogs or again government how does this kind of rhetoric bode for the palestinians middle east ability.

greetings and sal you taishan today let's kick things off with some good news for a change hawk watchers actually it's great news for both environmentalist and freedom of speech advocates in the wake of the total access pipeline protests we saw big oil submissive legislators in both north and south dakota pass multiple new laws of the century outlaw various acts of protest especially the kind used to

protest oil pipelines like the senate bill 189 in south dakota which according to the a.c.l.u. gives the state the authority to sue individuals and organizations for riot boosting but it does not clearly describe what speech or condit conduct it considers to be riot boosting essentially it could mean that if you helped organize or support a protest and then a fight breaks out at the event you could be held by nancy accountable due to your support of the riot thankfully a federal judge has put his foot down in the name of the 1st amendment temporarily blocked this of the and the enforcement of this law but that's not the only stand taking place in our courts in recent weeks as a as news of a class action lawsuit against both lowe's and home depot things to an illinois biometrics privacy law yes it seems that it's not just law enforcement in the i phone that's been hungry for your face can talk watchers the lawsuits are accusing the retailers of violating the illinois state law by surreptitiously scanning customers faces as they moved about the chain stores in illinois the lawsuit states

that the 2 retail giants have augmented their in-store security cameras with software that track individuals movements throughout the store using a unique scan the base geometry well from face scans to anti protest law that appears the public has had enough and it's time to start watching the hawks. if you want to deal with. the same. it would be analyzing the bottom. line of the day like i got. the we. would free. world and i'm on the watching the hawks i am.