so now international colleagues start joint operations of the science of the devastating explosion in beirut our correspondent is. in the very epicenter as close as 1000000000 can get and look at it look here this used to be somebody else's clothes now it's just rags and there's no way of telling what the story behind these clothes are for sure but it sure is grim. to start labeling state affiliated media pages a move the fatal exclude the network's recommendation systems. for the government faces criticism after purchasing 50000000 unusable facemask start as local authorities in the u.k. are given power to destroy buildings in the fight against aids we get reaction from

. the pool in this day and age it would be easier to write to be sanitized somewhere rather than knock it down. or you'd think there'd be something more scientific that would go broke if you're good and. good morning thanks for joining us here on our team to. rescue their work in the blast stricken city of beirut as part of joint international relief efforts a massive explosion in the lebanese capital stocks area claimed the lives of 157 people and injured 5000 correspondent reports from the epicenter of the tragedy. as russian rescuers are getting down to well what they have been flown in here for i want you to just look around and let something sink in about the sheer and

ultimate demolition power behind this explosion we are in the very epicenter as close as a 1000000000 can get and look at it look here this used to be somebody else's clothes from now it's just rags and there's no way of telling what the story behind these clothes are for sure but it sure is grim and look closely under my feet i do apologize for my dirty sneakers but look closely because i'm not stepping on dirt or sand or anything this is actually cool seeds of corn from this massive towering reserve which is no more because of the bluster and this is the very 1st site where russian rescuers are searching for survivors. they are telling me that they are ready to work overnight if there's any possibility of finding somebody alive actually filed

a report on their mission here in lebanon here it is this is a field hospital in its early stages it is just being built in fact there's another group of emergency workers on the way with more infrastructure but this is where russian rescuers will be taking those injured those still in need of medical attention from after the blast. very extremely lucky to be alive actually because i can't i can't i can't forget the explosions the sound of the 1st. in front of my eyes while. i look to the soul body parts of you put. it to me it will be for street. kid

stevie but if it's a choice and i saw it today. chris heard about a man i went to his people and told them we should not be here at that moment i turned around and i was he by something in my right hand that's when the big explosions started it threw me to the ground well everything that you can see around me was erected overnight it was literally an empty lot well fast forward 6 hours and well there's already a small tent city here. well these are search dogs have been traveling with me rather i was with them and they will be sniffing out those who may be still trapped under the law under the rubble the city of the roots is devastated morally physically financially in fact of all

places that i've a been to apart from acts of war zones of coups this one with all the rubble destruction and vehicles just abandoned at the side of the road resembles a scene from a post-apocalyptic movie the most and the russian 8 f. aims here at relieving at least some of the pain i'm done of reporting from beirut in lebanon. given the sheer scale of destruction groups of volunteers are assisting with the cleanup in beirut conflict clearing my dead body from flats and houses and with spirits low after the tragedy some of trying to live in them continues.

meanwhile the lebanese capital has seen more public unrest people are unhappy about the economic crisis that's gripping the country those feelings even aggravated by perceived government competence which some claim led to tuesday's tragedy the latest protests or police resort to tear gas. twitter started labeling the accounts of state affiliated media and will no longer employed by their pages and posts through the networks recommendation system the pages of senior government officials will also be labeled the 1st the move will only be applied to politicians who represent the 5 permanent members of the un security council the company describes its new policy as important for uses. we believe this is an important step so that when people see an account discussing geopolitical issues from another country they have context on its national affiliation and are

better informed about who they represent. so let's look at which media have been included on twitter's government affiliated list the label is now being shown in the accounts of russia's r.t. and sputnik as well as of some chinese media outlets including the country's official press agency and 2 major newspapers other outlets that one might have thought would be included in the less they have been laughed off among them the b.b.c. in the u.k. america's m.p.r. twitter says that it won't label those estate finance doubtless because of their perceived editorial independence according to the company's blog independent media don't use their news coverage to advance political agendas to this labeling policies also affected some editorial staff of state affiliated outlets including artie's editor in chief margarita simonyan and the editor of china's global times newspaper r.t. center requests to the company to explain in detail its labeling criteria we are awaiting

a response independent journalist martin summers told us that twitter's labeling policies intertwined with the global political situation. i think there's an awful lot of politics involved in this as we know. which are on the other social media giants are coming under pressure from all sorts political causes about what kind of policies they pursue who they allow all. sorts of labeling they gave to people who appear on their soil what is probably see. is this increase in discrimination and effectively censorship is because the political situation internationally is becoming more and more stressed with moving closer and closer. and it's you know it's a rather worrying sort of less this kind of developed. meanwhile the u.s. department of state issued a report wednesday accusing russia of a disinfo mission

a propaganda campaign employing various methods including kremlin controlled news to push forward their agenda. closer look 3 months until the election a virus cool seeing through the country an ailing economy and a future without tech talk america's got its hands full but it will still always find the time on the cash to do a deep dive into russian descent information the kremlin bears direct responsibility for cultivating these tactics and platforms as part of its approach to using information as a weapon it invests massively in its propaganda channels its intelligence services and its proxies to conduct malicious so brecht of it's easy to support the dissent from ation efforts and it leverages outlets that masquerade as new sites research institutions to spread these false and misleading narratives a new report by the state department has zeroed in on russia's complex network of fake news and propaganda and basically it turns out like some kind of new to latent

octopus there are 5 pillars to russia's this information ecosystem from the government itself to social media but the one that gets the most attention are news sites which apparently are really busy peddling conspiracy theories but you would never suspect them of being nefarious 20300000 monthly views a wide range of political topics on a fairly quiet twitter account but no it turns out it's all. the kremlin in disguise. we founded they promote this information in support of the kremlin's goals they're often promoted directly by the russian government and the push specific disinformation narratives they're picked up by other parts of the ecosystem how intriguing some might say tell me more others would cry well the state department might say there's no hesitance all direct ties with moscow but

here's an unrelated example of an alternative news story to stop you from asking questions the heart of global research has written many articles on coded 19 containing dissin for me shewn one of them that was published back in march the headline of this is covered 19 coronavirus if a pandemic who's behind it global economic social and political destabilisation so from that have line calling it a fig pandemic i think we all recognize it's not a free pandemic it's real you know now that i think about it and if the public pulse and contribute to the site it will go away to stay current view this is the same as the flu a lot of people think that goes away in april with the heat rather. they're politicizing it the report also says that the same site suggests that corona virus was manmade and a boy who fell apart tree you know now that i think about it i know and not the

possum who would just be an invaluable member of this website's team i can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory. with the u.s. backing so many problems you could ask why release the report now while it could be a coincidence or not but last week secretary of state might compare what with the begging bowl before congress asking for a significant increase in funding for the g e c which happens to be the author of this report. the state department's for 2021 requests for the global engagement center is $138000000.00 more than double its current level we won't tolerate this information and other propaganda directed by the cromwell or any of our other adversaries double the budget for the sake of a handful of relatively are no news sites operating 200000 month leave us while solid reasoning all i can say is the pompei was going to have to get a much bigger ball when he sat his sights on r t would that it's not

a competition of course but 130000000 monthly viewers but might all take oh no he's willing to give to the state department's rewards for justice program is offering a reward of up to $10000000.00 for information leading to the identification or location of any person who acting at the direction for under the control of a foreign government interferes with u.s. elections so mike tell me what's a gal going to do to get back on on that 10000000. the british government says that it won't be using $50000000.00 facemasks that it bought for medics during the pandemic because of concerns they might be unsafe the admission the spark calls from the opposition labor party for an urgent inquiry into the way contracts for essential supplies were handed out for months we were told that the government was purchasing the right equipment for the frontline it's again it hasn't happened there needs now to be an investigation an

inquiry into what went wrong with this particular contract because it's just not good enough to people who need that protective equipment that we find ourselves in this position. now the basques were part of a 252000000 pound contract the government signed with investment firm and the capital in april but it's transpired they have illudes rather than head loops and therefore may not fit tightly enough another 150000000 masks of a different type supplied by and there are still being tested by mr johnson says he's very disappointed the shipment was unusable the government spokesperson also said it was followed appropriate due diligence when purchasing p p we spoke to nearly better nurse who's been working on the front line about the situation i have actually worked in areas where there was no easy and also went in after areas where i was asked to read my face mark and there would be shortages of april so i would like to see the government ensure that there is a supply chain any sort of short men issues are dealt with now the government can't

just put us in the frontline and expect us to be watching it's very it's very stressful and i just hope that they do the right feeling obviously they've made lots of errors and i'm just hoping that going forward they can do the right thing to protect us so that we can protect our patients in the meantime it's been revealed local councils have been granted new powers to demolish buildings and even homes infected with coronavirus prime minister johnson says that he's determined to avoid a 2nd nationwide lockdown at all costs we've got reaction to this from people in the u k. ah just because it's a little heavy handed. in this day and age it would be easier to write julie sanitized somewhere rather than knock it down. seems wasteful it doesn't seem resourceful vaccines and you know you'd think there'd be something more scientific that would help rather than demolishing buildings which wouldn't be going to help these areas anyway it's absolutely ridiculous you know extreme to demolish

buildings because you know. mixed messages i mean the message would be mixed all the way. into just looking at the. same thing. to see. if. it's a nice approach to controlling the covert outbreak appears to be paying off the daily confirmed cases rate is now averaging around $300.00 which is well below the peak many aspects of the lockdown have now been eased social distancing still required some public spaces and wearing face masks remain mandatory in shops and on public transport but not all passengers are compliant with the health protective measures with some even turning violent when asked to do so. name is gladiator.

many a. joint project they come to the gym in order to be ready for the aggression that they face every day is simply to wear a mosque is becoming a problem for the drivers. a lot of drivers have been in trouble for what we read about in the newspapers extreme situations dangerous situations occur every night and in many other parts of the.

scene. is one of the most sensational stories of our. media coverage appears to be limited to details and. the single biggest question that needs to be answered is how all of this could have happened where was for. justice. seemed wrong. to me to get to shape out this day to come to educate and gain from it because betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. welcome back celebrated this independence day of to this day the country was gripped by protests over delayed elections to vote it's been put of twice already because the pound make the interim president of the 9 years since she supported the delay but she says the bolivian election body all playing with taking to twitter to stress that she has nothing to do with the latest decision the same time the government has denounced the protests and says that they pose

a danger to public health and safety and accused. of inciting the little quote as the story. when it comes to combating potential election fraud donald trump seems to have a solution suspend the elections altogether and while that's caused quite a fuss in the united states the pro-u.s. interim government in bolivia has successfully used that strategy twice just see for yourself how the opposition feels about it. and. the people are demonstrating taking to the streets and calling for elections now because we are seeing the inability of the self-appointed president who has been groped in the country when it was. young people of coldness to go into hunger strike until the government calls elections we no longer want to wait we want to actions now the court cited the covert 900 pandemic as the reason for the delay now while there are rising infections in the country it's nowhere near to the same level as bolivia's hard hit neighbors like brazil chile and peru and the

postponement has really struck a nerve with the public who have been in political limbo since the last election. it's the most to lose if we don't. think. it was the 1st step towards free and fair elections as prescribed by washington. all countries deserve free fair transparent and credible elections the oas official report on bolivia makes it clear that bolivians were not given this chance stop the violence hold elections and work with janine annas and the transitional government to bring democracy back so the new president janine 9 years had one job to hold

a new vote. it's merely a transitional period we will call for elections with honorable people they will carry out an electoral process that reflects the will and sentiment of all bolivians the interim government was supposed to hold new elections 90 days after taking power instead on us has been president now for almost a year with no signs of returning to the ballot box she also said she wouldn't run for president in the next election but since her an egg on that and her reputation as bolivia's caretaker has been far from spotless. various foreign ministers describe tell east containing their home interests his telephone numbers family addresses and other personal information are being circulated viable facebook and other social media.

it has also been publicly reported that the lifeless bodies of several people who were killed in the massacre disappeared allegedly after being collected by law enforcement officers and no further information has scenes been provided to them. all the while it doesn't even seem like the libyans really support the interim government polls are showing that another election would mean victory for morale us as movement for socialism party perhaps is just another read. and why for the interim government if there is no election there is no problem. with the neo liberal puppet unelected kater imperialists. in libya they're afraid of a return of able more out of this movement toward socialism the m.e.'s kennedy are staying with the street and yes we look cool mongering so that's why we

continue to use cold be seen as an excuse they know i mean it's 'd not we're just not popular we the everyday people so the very people responsible for this pandemic of the ones who continue to lay the elections ironically using. 19 is the excuse when the oas in the nicest government talk about free elections poised to talking about their candidates leading in the polls and in waiting in with their. yes men and women who are. income i sure are not in and can not see elections and they come up with every excuse to. little trump is once again railing against germany of the military spending keys in berlin of making a fortune of u.s.

soldiers washington earlier nouns plans to reduce its presence in germany by a 3rd decision was applauded by the president's pick for next u.s. ambassador to berlin but douglas macgregor is nominations already ruffling his potential host further it's all over explains the ties that if united germany and the us since the end of the 2nd world war have frayed under the tenure of donald trump that's in part due to the president's picks for ambassador to his 1st appointment rick grinnell irritated his hosts from the get go. german companies doing business in iran should wind down operations immediately never tell a host country what to do. we

are not a banana republic to. an extent to build one sided tightening of the tone. big shoes to fail to be sure but if president trump gets his way the next u.s. ambassador to germany will be retired army colonel douglas macgregor no shrinking violet when it comes to controversy these people are not coming to assimilate or become europeans quite the opposite they're coming to take over whatever they can get they're coming to benefit to consume and to establish themselves inside other people's countries with the goal of eventually turning europe into islamic state the germans thanks to us don't feel obligated to defend themselves government it seems more concerned about providing free services to millions of unwanted boys

women vader's to be bought but it goes about its own armed forces that the defense of his country clearly a man with opinions who isn't afraid to share them but it's what mcgregor have to say about german attitudes to the horrors of nazi rule that have upset people here . sort of a 6 mentality that says that generations after generations must atone for what happened in 13 years of german history germany's willingness to confront its past as a cue to parts of society before the retired colonel has been approved politicians here a limb and saying the idea that he would be put forward in the 1st place as an ambassador . donald trump sins douglas macgregor to berlin he describes the german culture of remembrance of nazi crimes is a sick mentality and we thought up to richard grinnell things could only get better the u.s. government is free to choose on busters whether mr mcgregor will be confirmed by

the senate is completely open in any case he would come to believe with heavy baggage there's already enough xenophobia rhetoric here coming from the f.t. mcgregor's controversial statements aren't just limited to germany he's upset people with what he's had to say about mexico kosovo and ukraine while he was talking to my r.t. american colleagues we certainly have a new cultural identity in eastern and southern ukraine that's clearly russian but we know the demand for recognition that the people who live in those areas are in fact russians not ukrainians the friendship between germany and the united states is strong enough to survive the old falling outs like the spying on merkel scandal under president obama donald trump selecting one less than diplomatic ambassador isn't going to cause too much trouble but a 2nd one in a row may well indicate a more permanent change to the mood music teacher all over r.t.

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