to include one chill intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. sanctions learning to manage the information warfare as a wrong as fox news agency says its international web site is shut down all the orders of the u.s. treasury. to go into hiding amid a furious debate on free speech rights teenager received death threats. videos on social media discussed whether there should be a line between hatred and freedoms. the british prime minister gives up wanting to have a carbon emissions at the u.k. africa summit striking an interview that almost entirely centered around fossil fuels. and could the tables be turning for italy's biggest party head of a key role in the north of the country this sunday the anti establishment 5 star

movement is seeing a major shift following its lead his resignation. live from moscow watching all the international. tribune from welcome to the program. following a recent trend against iranian media fasts news agency says its international website has been taken down soft apparently falling foul of u.s. sanctions this comes as tensions continue to build between the 2 countries and it seems the u.s. treasury department had a major role to play. the photos news dot com websites is being blocked on u.s. treasuries orders and emails sent to followers newsagency by the provider clearly stated that the treasury's office of foreign assets control as i do the agency to the s d n specially designated nationals list if you visit the website fars news dot com it

is unavailable the web page does not load now it's important to note there is a website fars news dot i r that i are standing for islamic republic that has just been created but that is only in farsi the language of iran not other languages even though far as news generally publishes in different languages those are not available fars news calls itself an independent news source generally it has been labelled by western media outlets as being a mouthpiece for the iranian government it's one of the primary sources for breaking news within the borders of the islamic republic the fact that it has been taken down and does not appear to have its website up and is blaming this on the us treasury seems to fit it on standing a long standing pattern for example earlier this month press t.v. the english language t.v. network based in the islamic republic of iran was removed from you tube however google backed down from that decision but regardless that was a moment where we saw

a news outlet from iran have its access to the internet and social media cut off or tampered with now we can recall in recent months the escalation between the 2 countries qassam solomonic the top iranian general was killed in a u.s. airstrike near baghdad the iraqi capital and then we saw iran respond with a barrage of missiles directed at u.s. bases in iraq this feud between the leaders of the usa and the islamic republic of iran wasn't even put on hold during the whole cost commemorations in jerusalem take a listen we must also stand strong against the leading state purveyor of anti-semitism. against the one government in the world to deny. the holocaust as a matter of state policy and threatens to wipe israel off the map against the islamic republic of iran. now sanctions have been imposed on the islamic republic by the united states and there has been constant threats of military action and it

seems that this effort to silence news agencies and remove them from social media and from the internet itself fits into a longstanding pattern of efforts by leaders of the united states to covertly undermine the islamic republic of iran. it was the said mustapha who is the editor in chief of us news agency english thanks for joining us good to have you on today what exactly did the mail to you news agency contain and what makes you think that this shutdown was specifically all new orders of the u.s. treasury. come on thanks for having me well they've sent us an e-mail i mean the international service provider saying that they have no choice but cutting off and blocking a farce news agencies access to the dot com the main the international domain at the request and order of the u.s. treasuries all 5 of the office all foreign assets control saying that farce news

agency has been enlisted in the s. the end list the list of sanctions of the united states and as a sanctioned and at the should not be provided with any kind of service well that seems to be yet another move a hostile move by the united states towards iran following the assassination of possums allay money this means an essence a nation of expression of freedom apparently they are afraid of you know the iranian viewpoints expressed outside the border we know that they be the board of directors of the united states the works on their the congress and receive you know all of the budgets through the state department they have been ratifying over $660000000.00 to combat the and the fuse the impact of all of the media of rival countries including russia china and iran especially. they do

it through different outlets that they have through the b.o.h. through radio free europe and so on so forth so they have sort of an open war now this time in an area of soft warfare in order to characterize the impact of the iranian media specially abroad. this actions obviously talking to iran because of the did your political circumstances but do you think this is specifically targeting iranian media in particular as you said stifling free speech and is there anything that the agency can do to to rectify the situation. well since last night for a few hours of course we had some problems though the website is up and running right now by redirecting millions of readers from dot com to. our that's the national the main this is yet another outcome of the event it's

a show that iran needs to develop its national infrastructure into and that in order to stay immune from the united states hostile actions you know fars news agency ranks 1st according to the an 11 call data provided by alex and google analytics farce news stands atop the uranium news websites and news agencies and it stands 12th among all the sites including banks services and to fame and so on so forth in the war of the among millions of upsides it ranks lower than $500.00 among old upsides and among the news websites is among the 1st $100.00 so it has lots of thought you know readers and it produces lots of impact and it's no strange that following the f.t. the foundation for defense of democracies. offer and planned 2 years ago to donald trump to sanction the i r b b the a state run t.v. as well as press t.v.

and farce news and the iranian state run news agency as well as test name those agency they offered and request that donald trump to sanction all these entities and to care if they have freedom of speech irrespective of all rules and regulations you know this is been a mockery of freedom of speech and expression this shows that all the slogans that they chant in the united states about freedom of speech they are hollow and they are meant for nothing there were similar consents last night for other highly visit iranian beppe sites like. the iranian variant of you tube. there were concerns they had concerns that they might be facing similar problems and the. domain is no strange and they've been fighting uranium media since you know 23 years ago and started with the state run t.v. and press t.v.

and it continues now with farce news agency we are doing our best in order to keep you know there's. a line and as far as i know until a few moments ago much of the problem has been resolved and. get back in read news. and if they go for dot com they will be redirected to our domain and they will find access to farce news immediately you mention the readers and viewers as one group of people obviously going to be affected temporarily already have been affected and washington has previous said it sanctions don't affect ordinary people that's not the aim of the sanctions they're meant to target you know government officials and other officials other entities will somehow impact employees at fox what's the feeling there in in your offices.

well people i mean the journalists and reporters there were really antagonized i mean they were feeling lots of hatred for the and that is states because we are not mina war we are not you know militaries we are not state officials you know fars news agency. was established back in 2002 or 3 and it's the 1st iranian nonna state news agency so it's not even a state run media it's a private sector media it's been registered in iran on their private entity so 'd people here are feeling the brunt of the. actions it's not just the reporters and journalists but also the normal citizens. has heard about it intellectuals artists read theirs you know normal people said an average

citizens they they were surprised to see how open the united states is when it comes to you know moving against all the allegations they were making they were making about democracy human rights and freedom of speech trump has done a lot of good to iran i believe because he has been the one that has shown that all these slogans and chance that they have about the mark willacy human rights and so on and so forth are for nothing and they are hollow and when the time arrives they see no difference between saw for for media warfare or military wofford be just as anyone standing on their way. said must have a profession manager in chief of news agency english thanks for joining us today good to speak to get your side of the story on that thank you. a 16 year old french girl has been told to go into hiding off the she received

death threats for posting auntie's manic videos on instagram media who's from early on said she was responding to homophobic and racist abuse from muslims on the platform police are now investigating the case. the viral posting spread on social media networks of a video posted by a young girl expressing during a personal discussion viral and horsetail comments about the muslim religion has provoked a multiplication of reactions to in the form of death threats and threats to commit crimes on a friend's floor would scare and tease freedom of expression miller could argue she was just giving her views on islam the incident has garnered widespread attention even support from some politicians the speech of this young girl is the voice description of charlus caricatures no more no less we can find the volga but we cannot accept that some people condemn her to death for that in france in the 21st century let us support me look a 16 year old high school student insulted and threatened with death by thousands

of fanatics for having given her opinion on islam we got some reaction to the story from our soon should share of these that acumen rights commission under walker a columnist for the new york observer. my concern is that time and time again we're seeing blasphemy laws reinstituted across europe remember back in the middle ages europe was plagued by blustery laws inflicted by the christian community and i think that we've got a lot better as a society since they disappeared against blasphemy law blasphemy is is something a very christian sort of centric concept and it's got no room in between islam in islam we actually in carriage any sort of criticism the idea that insulting the prophet mohammed should be something you should die for is completely unacceptable and always remember you or it got better when we walked away from these blasphemy rules ourselves and i think it would be great if the islamic world was to follow

that example. you know at least i don't know i don't know i don't know why you keep on being in blasphemy laws no one is actually talking about bringing in blasphemy laws we are saying that you should not be able to abuse muslims under the pretense that this is. well look what you've just laid out it should be it should be patent to be abusive towards islam even if that stressed opposites are congratulations you're describing a blast me law and that is something that we need to get away from let's sit down around the cup of tea let us criticize one another's belief but respect one another and i don't see why this should be confusing for anyone but there is a problem with fundamentalism in our society and most of fundamentalists of muslims they're not all muslims but most of them are eastern attempt to say that in

practice you can criticize as are you cults insult the prophet mohammed you can't be critical of the views that he expressed that is something that is dangerous for our society i'm not saying that you can criticize islam and say go ahead no problem . let's get together over a cup of tea you could criticize the wonders you want and i will discuss a bit you. british prime minister boris johnson has been joining the climate change chorus at the u.k. africa investment summit but while calling out the dangers of carbon emissions more than 90 percent of the energy deal signed at the event were for fossil fuels shaadi edwards daschle picks up the story. in a short space of time the poorest johnson has been prime minister we already know he isn't always one to stick to his word especially when it comes to striking deals but this could be one of his. remember those comments at the beginning of the week all about supporting clean energy in africa to put it simply not another penny of u.k. taxpayers' money would be directly invested in. burning it for electricity because

well you know we all breathe the same. the same. carbon emissions rise in the. same circuit right or wrong it's been uncovered that in fact the united kingdom spend billions of pounds of broad supporting fossil fuel projects that will emit an estimated $69000000.00 tons of carbon a year that's the same as the country the size of portugal nearly a 6th of britain's total annual carbon emissions but don't worry the government says missed $70000000.00 tonnes is just a worst case scenario even so the darker shade of green deals doesn't seem to be going down too well with the hypocrisy of the government's position is breathtaking it boasts of his green credentials one minute and then hosts an investment summit which sees billions been invested in carbon intensive industries in africa this government's promises on climate action are completely hollow but things could go

from bad to worse for grettir and co as 90 percent of the 2000000000 pounds worth of energy deal struck at the u.k. africa summit were full you guessed it fossil fuels but of course the united kingdom's official statement on the summit failed to mention that teeny tiny detail that the agreements were dominated by oil and gas and not coal well adding fuel to the fire over the last decade the united kingdom has financed $6000000000.00 pounds worth of fossil fuel projects alone including funding some of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world seems like a right royal mess up goodies all the extra. if you could do nothing with it except. catastrophic. i mean that's certainly better things to do with the dark right charles will come down everybody in the government says some of it's going to renewable projects too we are committed to working with countries across the world to unlock their renewable energy present

and support the transition away from fossil fuels to cleaner alternatives or maybe we should believe it but. the b.b.c. is voting to launch a fake new sporting show for kids we hear from a former employee over the board cost about concerns over bias coming up after the break. the entire stock market and bond market is being taken private with free money and the result will be medieval as a deal feudalism is clear as day. is your media a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. tyson nation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true. is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. of a much the program the b.b.c. will launch a new educational series to help youngsters the tech fake news install producer and judi dench only one quarter looks at whether the british national broadcast the should be asking questions about its own coverage as well. it's

a crusade against fake news and the b.b.c. has elected itself to lead the charge its latest show is aimed at protecting youthful eyes and ears from poisonous propaganda there's a gap in provision for young people who want to understand how the news is made and the values that stand behind it they need the tools to distinguish the real from the fools online and the skills to think critically about information wherever they encounter it and the new programs producer is none other than angelina jolie as a parent i'm happy to be able to give my support to a program that aims to help children learn more about the lives of other young people around the world i hope it will help children find information and tools they need to make a difference on the issues that matter to them it's a noble pursuit and all but the b.b.c. might not be the most qualified to act as the authority on fighting fake news b.b.c. russia correspondent olga was caught in the act asking

a local journalist to help her find evidence of russian meddling connected to protests in paris naturally moscow wasn't very happy with the attempt to pull an anti russian narrative out of thin air authorities all the time accused russian television channels of an internal protest movements and politics and call them propagandists i think it's humiliating when the british media disseminate such information and the b.b.c.'s track record of pursuing a political agenda goes much farther back than that in 1953 it was used covertly as a pawn in a joint m i 6 cia operation to support a coup against the democratically elected prime minister of iran mohammad mossad it the british government used b.b.c. persian radio to advance its propaganda against most attack on see most of it material was repeatedly aired on the radio channel to the extent that iranian stuff at the b.b.c. persian radio service went on strike in protest britain's national broadcaster was even accused of sending coded messages to the coupon. waters through the specific

wording of their broadcasts during the cold war london once again used the b.b.c. as a front to fund anti soviet propaganda in the middle east and latin america fast forward to 2018 and the b.b.c. covered the duma chemical attack from aboard the anti assad bandwagon citing u.s. officials who confidently claimed that the syrian government had deployed sarin gas against civilians the narrative was used as justification for washington's bombing of syrian government installations although b.b.c. syria's own producer said the attack was staged after almost 6 months of this to go sions i can prove with the most producing was staged no fatalities occurred in the host but look for a network with a history of having its strings pulled by british intelligence services and affinities for a certain line of political agendas it's no wonder viewers are struggling to see the b.b.c. as impartial we spoke to former b.b.c.

journalist ana breathes she says the networks trying to clear her appreciation in any way possible. the level of trust sorbs the b.b.c. who the general public is due in late daily weekly and i would say really possibly 2 years ago they could turn things around but it just got worse and worse really over the last 2 years i've been alerted in particular to the b.b.c. panorama programmes that a lot of people incredibly disappointed the b.b.c. in how they handled the run up to the election i think they're doing what they can you know they that picking certain celebrities or influences themselves to increase their reputation brand but. it's a case of is it is it is it possible to rescue that and i'm not quite sure it is you're not discuss it with the public they're just going to come they're just going to feel more and more alienated and and feel they're not not being listened to and that's very and that the b.b.c. have not been able to take control of that situation and they are suffering.

sunday's key vote in northern italy could trigger a major shake up in the country its biggest party has been left reeling after the leader foreign minister live each of them are resigned with support falling rapidly it could leave the door open for material severely zone to immigration northern league party when for them would likely see fresh elections and a shift to the right a shot at there with explains. as a tell you go to the polls in the northern region of the me here among this weekend there is a lot at stake not just for the current shaky coalition government but also potentially for the future of one of its members the 5 star movement the empty establishment's party was founded 11 years ago with a promise to rid italy of a corrupt ruling elite a champion of digital to look or see it start to send it quickly and brightly taking a good of the folks in 2018 election and joining to form not one but 2

governments but as we all know what goes up at some point must come down off that big election turnout 5 star set about signing up to a brand new italian government with the league though the league was supposed to be a junior partner the headline grabbing lead them to use any pushed it into the forefront then it state you know the good times for the illegals are over get ready to pack your bags and money well micron has not been very nice lately he's a polite man but he probably drinks too much. you'll not find any extremists or veterans at this table the only nostalgics are those in power in brussels today she stayed where ready to build a new future this is the path to save europe because those who are sinking into the european dream are the bureaucrats the bankers the do gooders who have been government for too long by the time italians headed back to the polls this time for

the e.u. elections for ching's had been reversed it was clear the league was now in the droid ing seat if we see it the numbers i'm in the last polls that have been made maintains leadership in the polling stations and the intentions are votes. the in his view the continuation of the governance of would have not grew to move to the elite so he decided to cut it off and run out of the government to be much fear or in pursuing his electorate without the ties of the government necessarily implies he has been running up the no need to gaining ground and especially defeating of decline of the 5 star bickering partner has started to turn on each other and when salvini took a gamble to pull out of the coalition 5 star looked elsewhere months of infighting

within 5 still seen dozens of its parliament true representatives defect be expelled and the cold digital support base has also been hemorrhaging with many unclear about the party's future certainly dismaying risk to become. ill especially for the 5 stars if they stay in this coalition after defeats in the region of the nations we have already seen this kind of taken the cold official kind of for of governments and a good deal of like tired of it so they want to see the political leadership of the kountry. elections haven't been particularly coing to the current italian it ministration in october a coalition of right wing parties spearheaded by the league one in the traditional heartland of the left now the government faces an even tougher test in the media

the region's biggest city is a bologna and it's been center left for 75 years but polls indicate that that could be about to change with the race neck and neck between the league and the democratic party 5 star is trailing so far behind it's not even considered worth a punt. today i'm here to hyundai my resignation as leader of the 5 star movement more to me is the most vivid many are once again calling telling me not say give up i'm not giving up this is just the end of the face. currently without a leader 5 stars future looks more down than bright if it does come crashing down the view is it could bring the italian government down with it opening up a way for salvini to seize the asian national elections he's been waiting for since last summer challenged even ski otty paris. up next what's going on the ground on the cars a report for our viewers in the u.k. we're back in half an hour with the latest.

political news you could look good 7. in a 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. i'm afshin rattansi welcome to going underground inside the indian high commission in london on a special day for the world's largest democracy with me is india's current high commissioner to britain thanks so much as a commissioner for inviting us in to.