you know. we don't know she'll just reply. and do this. we. will still love no children is the. changing of the guard russia has a new government which was just rubber stamped by president putin. the un security council the west continues to defend the chemical weapons watchdog to report on syria's duma incident in 28 despite the watchdogs i don't feel my inspector at corning get contradictory. the findings in the heart of the reports were contradictory were complete turnaround. to. the story. as the u.s. secretary of state meets venezuelan opposition leader american phones get yet

another wave on the sanctions that hit everyone else. very well welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me mccarren our top story this hour russia has a brand new government comes in the wake of last week's resignation of the old one as it made way for recently proposed constitutional changes in the last hour the new cabinet was approved by president putin. producer which was congratulations on your appointment to the government and i believe this will be a very serious challenge in your lives but at the same time it will be a very interesting journey and wish you all success the whole country is behind you the previous government created a proper foundation for further development and growth we should use this foundation and embrace our potential to achieve national goals.

find out more about the new line up now in class live to our correspondent goes down our vehicle good to see you could you run us through the changes to the cabinet please well sure the russian president vladimir putin he met with the prime minister mikhail misha stern and the new government was unveiled to the public all over the world but mostly it is the russians who were interested to see what changes and those are those words should say quite sizable changes the russian government did get a proper shake up or for instance some 13 people could not find a place in the new cabinet unveiled by mikhail and so a pretty that's a big deal for the russian government it is a big deal but the familiar faces the russia's heavyweights the veterans of the veterans of this of the trade i should say they did find they've stayed i have to say for instance the russia's top diplomat. he is staying so the all the western

partners they won't be needing to get used to a new face there's a familiar one that will be doing all the talking on russia's behalf also russia's top russia's chief policeman kept his job as well as did russia's war chief sergei sure who he is staying he's keeping his ministerial job as well now as for those who lost their positions they were mostly there were mostly people designated with fixing russia's internal policies and largely the former government was viewed as. rather while it was rather unpopular and the changes showed that it is it has grown unpopular with the president too for instance it was heavily criticized for failing to deliver on the ladder of putin's key internal policies for failing to put them forward for failing to realize them and bring them to life so we'll see how the new cabinet fares now this whole thing just

a bit of background here this whole thing happened last wednesday when after vladimir putin made in the dress to the federal assembly the whole russia's government decided to resign did announced its resignation so all these days while russia's president vladimir putin appointed me to be the new prime minister and all these days the country was in interests of patient as to who will be will it be a completely new government will something all the faces will some familiar faces stay there as well world now we can see and it will surely be interesting to follow up on how the new government fares especially when it comes to you know on the key focuses on the key challenges that it's facing right now and that is bringing our party for instance bringing up the russian citizens bringing up the average wealth of a russian citizen and so on and so forth absolutely it will be interesting indeed a goshdarn of thank you for those details. the u.n. security council has debated the investigation by the world's chemical weapons

watchdog into an incident in the syrian city of duma back in 2018 russia has questions the published findings triggering a backlash from western countries during the session a former o.p.c. w. specialist said the fact finding team had serious misgivings a chemical attack even occurred there or. clear or new. information for us. so yes i mean for us in order to study is this has been this fixed or is results of them are currently each turn around the situation provide those imus shows we're jerk here over to you you lettice be in no danced there was this chemical weapons attack in juma we have into ute

15 witnesses soon the do more hospital that us to morley over weaknesses ease and on disputable proof that the chemical law take in do mark was false who fight i did states caterpillar categorically of jack's to russia's blame attempt to use the security council meeting to weaken the credibility of the o.p.c. tabby year and its findings on the duma attacked no will has just to name to guilty the even with old presenting in the evidence and enjoyed the support of with little some lines who you goodly can i have wolf when eunice well since the air p.c. debbie you publish their reports the organizations own inspectors have voiced concerns the plied miss represents the facts for example the initial assessment suggested chlorine cylinders where manually placed it the stain contradicting the published version leaks also claim the team that went to do mo was not included in the in the glick putting together they were poor was caleb moore pin has more

details the united nations convened a meeting in which the results of the o.p.c. w.'s investigation into the alleged chemical attack in the syrian syrian city of duma in $28.00 teen was discussed now that report from the oas o.p.c. w has come into question after information was revealed leaks cited that crucial evidence was essentially left out of that final report and that crucial evidence that was left out could have pointed toward the attack being staged in henderson who was a weapons inspector he participated with the o.p.c. w in their fact finding mission in duma he doesn't agree with that he says that he pretty much based on the evidence has concluded that the canisters were placed manually they were not dropped from an airplane this is what in henderson said to the un meeting speaking through video link this is what he in henderson said the

findings. were contradictory. to. release of the interim report. 2000 and. 2 was that serious misgivings that a chemical attack. now even henderson is himself an expert on chemical weapons and the forensic investigations into them furthermore he actually participated in the official o.p.c. w. investigation but regardless that did not stop certain voices from trying to cast doubt on what he said to the u.n. meeting take a listen mr henderson's pape has a pitch reflects a personal view of course there. bound to be robust exchanges of views with

voices differing from others in any scientific process but what counts is the final considered assessment now the syrian government has been absolutely adamant and clear it had nothing to do with the chemical incident some countries. led by the united states of america. continue to exceed the provisions of the convention on the point of chemical weapons by politicizing the war of the o.p.c. w. under trying to. know from the track it was created for that was the chemical incident let's recall in $28.00 chemical incident in which the western countries the united states and france they used that as an opportunity to unleash 100 missiles against the syrian government there.

and we've had wiki leaks publish a number of of leaks and information e-mails showing that there just was not unanimous agreement within the o.p.c. w. about who was responsible for the attack based on that this report from the o.p.c. w has been widely questioned allies of the united states seem to insist that the syrian government is responsible and the opi c.w. report is conclusive and shouldn't be question so once again we have debate over the chemical incident i think people europeans are going to continue to turn from fear that it is clearly what they don't want to uphold there we were in fact what

we heard is a final report and then we also found these whistleblowers who are made up of the actual scientists and the americans are saying we'd like to report let's just move on and the russians are saying wait a minute let's listen to the national scientists because it sounds like this science didn't actually go into the 5000 so obviously the russians in a mirror. and so do you stand with your p.c. don't you to vote on whether you're talking about the report or the scientists who are pushing it goes to soon go it doesn't actually represent the finds. we spoke with now freelance journalist tired dad previously barred by newsweek from reporting this story on the p.t.w. leaks he quits in protest that's after the magazine's management gag him had told us there is no reporting on the issue in the western media this is not something is

going to go away it's very serious so. you know we've seen absolutely no reporting about this in the western media if we have. intelligence officials from the united states that can influence the reports of this body it opens the doors to many more situations where you know genuine chemical weapons attacks might not be treated in the same way because the reputation of the body is not taken seriously i think we've already started to see the kind of counter propaganda from the united states already kind of trying to change the narrative of c.w. must keep. in check and holder's government to account for chemical weapons attacks but it's completely counter what what the information that we have a present. u.s. lycra terry of state has met with one kwaito in colombia saying washington will increase its support for the man it now backs as venezuela's president might bump

a record for cooperation to removing companies can eclipse. we're here to be sure to do everything we can for sure that you get that opportunity to get a chance simply to live the life that you want with democracy and freedom. at the same time the u.s. has also given another 90 day extension for american oil companies to keep working with their venezuelan counterpose without fear of sanctions extended waiver exempt 5 major firms the trump administration impose sanctions on crackers several times to cut its oil revenues which come from most of the countries income sanctions are banned american companies from participating in van as well as economy but what the u.s. kind of wave us to its phones the white house is still sanctioning and issuing threats to upis we sanction the moscow based bank jointly owned by russian in venezuela state on companies that is helping perpetuate the misery in venezuela by doing business with a basic executive order gives already the treasury department to impose sanctions

on any person or business or any entity. period like this the euro to keep it down but there are a lot of cuba to plunder venezuelan oil rate as well to robert's people and we want to make sure that the resources resources that the venezuelan people are going to need after material leaves we want to make sure those resources are available for the venezuelan people are not shipped off to cuba or to russia or to iran a professor of latin american studies daniel schorr thinks the u.s. dollar is hypocritical. this shows the extremely hypocritical nature of saying since he's a selective sation and he certainly shared one on exxon in the mess of us corporations in. this it really exploitation of another country's resources whether it's venezuela or career 'd or was about we 'd going to cause the trump government

will look the other way. but the sanction this is located is airtight when it comes to plenty shady every day 30000000 people of venezuela well u.s. strategy has always been simple with roll the ball 'd largely in revolutionary government so they can go 'd into one as well 'd unimpeded unshared 'd and these are 'd some of the most massive oil reserves in the entire world 'd. on the program it's nice palminteri minister matteo salvation ahead announced on trial over his decision to turn away like one of the rescue buttons that story coming up in just a few moments. join

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welcome back facebook's been purging its network of content deemed undesirable again taken down post sympathetic to the assassinated iranian general custom solomonic one of those affected is viral content agency in the now whose own videos on solomonic have been deleted he's the sort of here's the sort of thing facebook's been getting rid of that iran and its allies sent. packing the u.s. could assassinates all of money and nothing would. be wrong to launch the belief that western media outlets to speak departments are not changing their tune on the u.s. government's agenda. while the social media giant has admitted to taking down prose the money posts across its platforms including targeting dozens of

a rainy and journalists and influencers well some of that accounts were even deleted the tech giant says it's simply complying with u.s. assumptions north following the u.s. strike on the lakes general earlier this month hundreds of iranians flooded spare social media accounts with tributes to solomonic. let's discuss this other now joining me live is ronnie hull a kedge analyst in high school and the now onsite folks present down coming looking surprised on really great to have but if you with us now starting with you dan we've just seen a bit of a video i feel is this being taken down by facebook what is facebook so concerned about you know content. well it's good to know there's at least one platform out here that supports free speech i think facebook took down my video basically because it exposes what the u.s. government does not want americans to see namely that the iranian general costs and so the money was a top anti isis general and that's something that used to be reported as i showed

in my video back in 20142015 during the peak against the fight against isis but when trump assassinated so the money suddenly that fact that noncontroversial fact was not to be found anywhere and so basically my video showed how us media tailors its line according to the precepts of the united states government and that was deemed apparently a threat they said it violated community standards and therefore was unpublished which is some orwellian double speak term unpublished that simply just means censorship that's what we're dealing with here and were you surprised when that happened oh did you expect it. i i certainly didn't expect it to happen but it's not the 1st time we've seen this happen before and it's part of a much broader campaign of attacks on independent media on any state sponsored media of course including a r

t the that deemed adversarial or that you know the united states government doesn't like but i mean my video is really not controversial at all so it should really raise alarms for americans who think that we have free speech in this country but really it's only as long as it stays within the confines of what the u.s. government and the silicon valley giants deem is acceptable free speech i think he rania do you see this as a concerted effort to sign a civil he says not only as a radiance but of anyone who tested support for 2 wrong. i absolutely and i think at this is actually much more dangerous than this a sort of censorship you see internally and cern country is you know the u.s. government is always raising you know as stink about oh china centering this or iran a censoring matt but in this case you know on like those cases which are domestic

censorship that only affect those countries what the u.s. government is doing here it is it's it's basically for thing these social media giants to censor things globally so you face because engine a censoring this in the united states it's censoring you know a soapbox video or an in the now video and the are all around the world nobody can ask this is video on facebook now it's really a way for the u.s. government to cancel out any actual information that challenges the state department narrative about countries deem to be official enemy is and it's really really disturbing because which you have here is it's almost like tyranny through algorithm and it's become so normalize that people just except sit and they don't think it's big deal anymore so i find it to be of very very disturbing alarming trend and i also find it to be a pattern of attack against our outlet the cystic lee this isn't the 1st time that in the now oryx channels i've been targeted with censorship due to social media

giants trying to me know bend over for the u.s. government are various think tanks that are funded by the u.s. government last year face book took down many of our pages at the be a has of us government funded think tank so at this point not on top of being a trend of trying to erase any content that is deemed sympathetic to iran or its leaders on top of bab this does seem to be a an ongoing part of this concerted effort against in the now well facebook says he know it has to comply with u.s. sanctions law is thing to miss going to be a lot of pay for the thinking lung no fair enough i don't i'm very much i know you know you to run if that's what you're sorry. you know as far as i can tell the constitution supersedes u.s. sanctions the constitution has an amendment 1st response there aren't sanctions you can place on outside states as far as i can tell there's no legal argument to be

made here that that that social media giants have to censor speech to comply with sanctions of the u.s. when in the u.s. we have a 1st amendment that's supposed to protect that speech in fact there is a legal case to be made here again and what facebook is doing and against what if the u.s. government is actually demanding this be a sanctions i actually don't know is to be the case there is that a legal argument to be made against this this goes against everything that is written in the 1st amendment so i actually you know a couple weeks ago when the u.s. or i'm sorry when facebook did announce that in fact it was going to start erasing content to comply with the u.s. thing i did see some legal scholars raising a fuss about it so this could be something that could become some sort of court case later on should it continue to facebook continue you know to erase content and use this as an excuse down same question so i repeat the question i was just off that didn't is good because

a lot of people to thinking well you know fair enough facebook has to comply with u.s. sanctions laws it's not their fault. well we don't know. there's you know there's nothing in the sanctions laws that i'm aware of or it would be dangerous for people to assume that censorship falls within these laws sanctions tend to have much more with economic. contacts and exchanges you know i think one question that needs to be examined is is this actually a case of military psychological operations silicon valley and i mean twitter and facebook and these companies have very close connections with the united states government and specifically the pentagon and so we only to be very concerned that this is actually a military operation that these types of things are military operations designed to basically protect american minds from subversive thoughts. you know i think that's an important point to make i rania i'm sure this is something that can see why we

see a lot of sense how can the platforms like you always like in the now survive in an environment that's against the content i mean it's really difficult it's becoming increasingly difficult when you have a social media environment that's dominated native by the major big tech lamarr it's like google image facebook so i mean all the best thing that people can do that we can do i guess is that have you know content across multiple platforms and at some point you know in the future alternative media specifically because this is an attack on alternative media needs to come up with some sort of alternative way alternative platform because a no tomorrow these social media giants at the behest of the u.s. government could just press a button and erase all of us and that's what's really scary or funny how that can a lesson on how to slow in the now i'm sorry folks presented on coming thank you both for joining us here and i will say thank you. thank you. it's nice momentary

in a cemetery savini has been stripped of parliamentary immunity by the senate it means he could now stand trial over his controversial decision to prevent migrant rescue boats docking at italian ports any who welcomes being taken to court claimed any trial would prove him right of the girls you call with my head held high in the name of the italian people if they arrest me they will have to find a prison big enough. we must find a big enough court this will be a trial against the italian people the investigation into salvini will center around a coast guard ship carrying 131 rescued migrants which was prevented from docking in the italian port of all gusto in 2018 they were eventually allowed to dock after a deal was struck with the e.u. but salvini could now face up to 15 years in jail for illegally detaining migrants at sea as the leader of the league party sounds any help propel the once fringe political movement into a major political force his nationalist message and hardline tone on immigration

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