not even broken wings to tell the. full generation that the risk is it but they sweat and tears to. identity crisis facebook now claims it's a publisher and not just a platform and a legal case which could have a major impact on what's posted on the site. plus austrian m.p.'s want to pull the plug on a huge trade deal between latin america and the e.u. over fires and 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 turns its final stage for china and india among the participants.

watching r t international bring you your like news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has met with president donald trump the social media platforms chief is looking to defend his company amid mounting criticism over privacy issues and data protection and i recently cold case facebook claimed it's a publisher and is therefore allowed to ban whoever it wants but that potentially makes it also liable for what goes out on its platform or sponsibility it's previously tried to dodge it looks at the potential ramifications. so what have we 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 to 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 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 discretion is if 3 speech rights are respected 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 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 as your sponsor for your content which make exactly on 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. the way. 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 alloted it's well known you can't have a cake and eat it at the same time will probably unless your last name is sucker

berg. 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 as artists are the explains it's an environmentalist worst nightmare wild fly is raging in the amazon destroying the world's most diverse 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 are for acted 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 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 stock these european banks are directly building the forestation do it your bank he black rock in vanguard collectively more than a $1000000000.00 in debt in just the 3 largest away 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. people rebar has been strengthening in 6 to policies related

to deforestation for several years and this prompted it's going to protect natural ecosystems and preserve biodiversity to the best of their abilities that experts say is just simply not good enough we can encourage it use it as yours take a role in requiring that the companies have certain standards they adapt 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 and ensuring that that clearance doesn't happen without the traceability the accountability of all actors involved including the europe the fear is that our house will continue to shoulder. powers we've also asked bank to comment on their links to the deforestation of the amazon they have yet to receive a response. not

a central russia where major international military exercise center 2018 is in full swing and addition to the host nations like 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 bottom or putin as well as watching the maneuvers the president is also meeting his kirghiz counterpart there. this is a very loud if press of spectacle the simulated food 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 president in the stands as well 20 meters away from us but there's a purpose to this is isn't just a shoe for enjoyment to a spectacle this is an exercise to form a unity to form corporation between asian nations asian states that 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 in a 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 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 tag. yanks of all time until reagan ad defense missile 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 the bug dissipating nations can present a united front to stop an enemy that has demonstrated its remorseless merciless and capable of anything pakistan is among those taking part quote a commentator and journalist john white emphasized the importance of the country joining india in the drills. it's a growing trend of cooperation between countries in central asia and it makes perfect sense given that the coleman traits stay she was a goddess to global terrorism hugely significant as it will disappear and of india and pakistan of course. changes over time actually you know be very very high and

get the newest article immature that has existed between what's going to this is a testament to the diplomacy of china russia countries into and to disagreement was fatally important in this corporation is that there is more integration. between countries because you don't know what's going to unfold in afghanistan it's very important for the countries who are in the region to have some sort of worked against any you know. to achieve or not. we now bring you some news just in that dollar trump has announced further sanctions on iran in the wake of the strikes on saudi oil facilities over the weekend the restrictions target the iranian national bank at quote the highest level as trump put it he made the announcement during a meeting with the australian prime minister in the oval office the u.s. of course blames iran for the drone attacks in saudi arabia despite the fact that who think rebels in yemen claimed responsibility and he ran denies any involvement

the russian foreign ministry meanwhile has called the latest sanctions illegitimate we'll have more on that story in the next hour. several 100 people have gathered in the nevada desert in the u.s. under the rallying cry storm area 51 what started as a joke campaign to break into the secretive military base has ended up attracting about 2000000 supporters on facebook and many claiming the american government hiding u.f.o. is there a festival known as alien stock which was due to be held in a nearby town was canceled last week but that has not stopped u.f.o. enthusiasts from descending on the area despite warnings from authorities about airspace has also been shut down on friday to protect the facility parties on a quarter story. it's the day we've all been waiting for a chance to discover if we've been contacted by aliens over 2000000 people have already said they're going to storm area 51 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 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 cool neato in policies if we know who to run we can move faster than their boots 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 a 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. 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 as identified a real phenomenon the unidentified aerial phenomena terminology is used because it provides the basic descriptor for the 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 u.s. 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 and but one thing's for sure. u.s. government is acting like it's got something to hide donald quarter r.t. . a major u.s. pharmaceutical company has started bankruptcy proceedings after it was fined billions of dollars for opiate abuse lawsuits that story and more after the break. chokes seem wrong. when old rules just don't call. me that you get to see out just did you come out ok and in gains from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president injury. or some want to be rich. but you're going to be cross it's like before 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water using my. first sip. i. come back the death toll from a recent taliban attack near a hospital in afghanistan has risen to 39 local officials also confirmed 140 people were injured trucks filled with explosives detonated near the hospital in temple

province on thursday the taliban claimed it was targeting a government intelligence building yet the majority of those killed were civilians patients and visitors of the hospital including women and children the number of taliban attacks has increased lately with bombings occurring almost every day to discuss this we are joined live now by political analyst mushtaq rahim now there's little more than a week left before elections in afghanistan and the taliban has increased its attacks and reportedly vowed to attack people if they decide to vote in the afghan government provide safety for those who wish to vote. well. by look all good things that we have seen or the last couple of weeks since the big the peace process between the americans and the taleban one can see there. can be such attacks that are taking place against the civilians we have been seeing attacks in kabul. and then you have the provinces and then got harder

progress. in the bedroom and i think. this is because most people have been sued. it's going to be a few days. to parkers with. such a. lease. so do you think that people are taking these threats seriously and do you think that they will still trying cast their ballots. well off course they have been beaten out from the people because it's one of the most important exercises happening in the country particularly off the peace process fred there were so many doubts about the elections and the future of the country and the system that will prevail in the country give us so many doubts since those have been cleared after the big down of the peace process and people know that they have to support the

system to survive but in the meantime get the means going sons. people who will come out in me just seeds in and then be 'd reasonable hobbs and this should be centered into the centers of the problem says but don't expect a lot of going out in the far flung india as where the taliban who are a lot of control at least as part. of the blue low out of fat. which talks talks between the u.s. and the taliban were cancelled by president trump 2 weeks ago and washington also scrapped financial aid to the country blaming the government for corruption how are those type of things affecting the situation in afghanistan. whether in general i think. it's concerned. or american government who has been part of this nation for the last big year supporting. the government and

public life now all of the sudden changing it to really. cause of concern and i bring the americans will have. a country these sort of drastic actions and really the soft. medical. records of last year and i've been. one because a friend of inconsistent decision in the country. political analyst mushtaq rahim thank you for your time and your comments. a major american pharmaceutical company has started bankruptcy proceedings after being accused of creating an opioid epidemic produce pharma has been 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 and explains for do

pharmaceutical recently found liable for the opioid at the demick 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 pretty you 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 but 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 them to. consider 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 you know there are principles in corporations that are in this country but around the world through scary criminal liability because of their power and the money they command of some of the people who come up with these companies who contributed to you screwed over you have to do it in the united states knew that they were likely to be criminally prosecuted if they were identified they would create 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 in my nation would you did you do that you do not have to serve if you see the way 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 up and r.t. new york that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our

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