and believe. the single biggest question that needs to be answered is how this could have happened where was long for and will justice be served. russia rescue teams and their international colleagues start joint operations at the site of the devastating explosion in beirut correspondent is on the scene. and ultimate demolition power behind this explosion we are in the very epicenter as close as 1000000000 can get and this is the very 1st site where russian rescuers are searching for survivors. flanking pages of certain media outlets staked affiliated it's labeling policy appears to like consistency this comes as the state department releases a report on the supposed 5 pillars of russian propaganda. the british government faces criticism after purchasing $50000000.00 unusable facemasks as local

authorities in the u.k. are given powers to destroy buildings in their fight against the reaction or the fall of mystery an agent would be easier to write should be sanitized somewhere rather than knock it down. or you'd think there'd be some people scientific that would help grow even more. hi there is midday here in moscow this is r.t. international. russian rescue teams have begun their work in the blood stricken city of beirut as part of joint international relief efforts a massive explosion in the lebanese capital's docs area claimed the lives of 157 people and injured 5000 to correspond to think 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 villian can get look closely under my feet i do apologize for my dirty sneak his but look closely because i'm not stepping on dirt or sand or anything this is actually cool and seeds of cooling 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. 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 i can't forget the explosions the sound of the visuals in front of my eyes well and then i literally saw the body parts of people. to me and all people screaming yeah it's screaming body parts. i saw it and i saw today. crew

heard about a man i went towards people and told them we should not be here at that moment and i turned around and i was he by something in my right hand that's when the big explosion 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 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 be roots is devastated morally physically financially in fact of all places that i've ever been to apart from that wasn't of course 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.o. aims here at relieving at least some of the pain down of reporting from beirut in lebanon azzi. given the sheer scale of the destruction groups of volunteers have been assisting with the cleanup in beirut people are clearing away deborah from flats and houses with spirits low after the tragedy some are even trying to lift the mood with music.

meanwhile the lebanese capital is also see more public unrest people are unhappy about the economic crisis that's gripping the country his feelings have been aggravated by perceived government incompetence which some claim led to tuesday's tragedy the latest protests saw police resorting to use of tear gas. the more french president. talks with top lebanese officials and call for an international investigation into the causes of the blasts some questioning the french leader real motives. on the line now from paris good afternoon to charlotte it seems like my prince getting a lot of attention at the moment. yes that's why wall to wall coverage intend nationally visit. he swooped into the lebanese capital in the aftermath of tuesday's devastating explosion its rival came hot on the tails of

french rescue workers who were sent there to help those with its feet to find any survivors those last tuesday now some say you feel sick a b. c. is sort of exerting report that sort of influence. for the country that is our form of protest which was this it said you see the state it's the 1st foreign leader to make a visit. and people are now hearing evidence against evolution so at the same time we built this emergency. we need a new political initiative and i'm here to bring her good to coordinate we look to your plan and internationally should be to bring money and directly to people but the other side we have known to. political initiative. but he did

make it was he waded through those massive crowds there was a particularly poignant moment when he hugged a woman and he said to her i can feel your pain but that moment also led some to question what his real motives were for being in beirut some opposition politicians here in france have been scathing about that visit describing it as a one man arab show and others suggesting he's treating lebanon as if it's still a french colony. france a poor people in this strategy is indisputable or the other hand the arrogant and moralizing one man show in which a man who has performed today in beirut is indifferent barely arrived in lebanon takes himself or the president of the lebanese republic he preaches and claims by himself to organize european and international corporation the immense misfortune of some reveals the great vanity others. now present mcauliffe for his point of

view said he would never deigned to interfere in lebanese politics but almost in the same breath he said that he would be talking to political leaders in lebanon and he would be holding. can't he also said that this visit to have a geo political angle because it wasn't fronts it was that it would be turkey iran or saudi arabia and according to him very interests would be to the detriment of the lebanese people but now that visit by president macaroni is being welcomed the aid that he's promised is being welcomed but the reality is when he turned its back here to france he's fighting many battles here with his un popular mandate in france the reality is it will remain is to be seen whether those. oh mrs b. to the reporting from paris of course do this give it up to thank.

the u.s. state department has issued a new report in which it accuses russia of waging a disintegration and propaganda campaign by employing a variety of methods among these is the use of kremlin controlled news outlets to push moscow's message. takes a closer look. 3 months until the election a virus cool thing up through the country an ailing economy and a future without tech talk america has got its hands full but it will still always find the time and 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 i broke to vittie to support the dissent from ation efforts and it leverages outlets that masquerade as news sites research

institutions to spread these false and misleading narratives a new report by the state department has 0 day 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 rushes 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 they push specific disinformation narratives that are 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 hesitancy of direct ties with moscow but here's an unrelated example of an alternative news story to stop you from asking questions the head 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 fake 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 factual state might compare one with the backing poll before congress asking for a significant increase in funding for the g e c which happens to be the author of this reports. the state department's efforts on $21.00 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 set his sights on r t would that it's not a competition of course but $130000000.00 monthly viewers but my total 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 us elections so mike tell me what's a gal going to do to get back on on not 10000000. twitter in turn her started its own campaign flagging the accounts of state affiliated media with special labels such pages and posts will no longer be amplified through the network's recommendation systems the pages of senior government officials will also be labelled the 1st this will only apply to politicians who represent the 5 permanent

members of the un security council the company described 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. ok 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 point of thought would be on the list they have been let off though among them the u.k.'s b.b.c. and america's m.p.r. twitter says it won't label these a state finance doubtless because of their editorial independence according to the company's blog independent media don't use their news coverage to advance political agendas twitter's labeling policy is also affected some editorial staff of state affiliated outlets including parties editor in chief margarita simonyan and the

editor of china's global times newspaper auntie has sent a request to the company to explain in detail the labeling criteria still waiting for their response independent journalist martin summers told us twitter's labeling policy is intertwined with the global political situation oh i think there's an awful lot of politics involved in this as we know. 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 and with moving closer and closer. and it's you know it's

a rather worrying sort of 'd less this kind of develop you won't see me but then you will see him in a few seconds when he's annoyed. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

come back the british government says that it will be using 50000000 facemasks that it's bought for medics to in the pandemic because of concerns they might be unsafe the admission to spot calls from the opposition labor party for an urgent inquiry into the way called tracks for essential supplies have been handed out. for months we were told that the government was purchasing the right equipment for the front line yet again it hasn't happened the needs now to be an investigation and 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. they must to part of a 252000000 pound contract the government signed with investment firm i under capital in april but it's transpired that these have eluded rather than had loops and so may not fit tightly enough another 150000000 masks of a different type supplied by and still being tested prime minister boris johnson says he's very disappointed the shipment was unusable the government spokesperson stressed there had been due diligence when purchasing the p.p.a. he spoke to nearly bennett a nurse has been working on the front line about the situation. i have actually worked in areas where there was. also work in every areas where i was arcs to my face mar 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 front line and expect us to be working 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 meanwhile it's been revealed that local councils have been granted new powers to demolish buildings and even homes infected with coronavirus as part of a package of measures to enable them to enforce local lock downs from mr johnson says he's determined to avoid a 2nd nationwide lockdown at all costs we've got reaction from people in the u.k. . i just think that it is a little heavy handed. world of thought in this day and age it would be easier to write actually sanitized somewhere rather than knock it down. it 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 i don't think it's going to help is there in any way whatsoever it's absolutely ridiculous you know extreme powers to demolish buildings because you know. mixed messages i mean the message is be mixed all the way we think. we're going to just keep going to sleep so you think it's just a. kid now. italy seems to be winning its war on covert 19 with the daily average of new cases now down to around $300.00 well below the peak among the measures it's adopted is making masks mandatory in shops and on public transport but that's led to some angry and violent reaction the staff having to learn to defend themselves. the name is cloudy which.

many $88.00 she tried to join our project they come to the gym in order to be ready for the aggression that they face every day the simple rule to wear a mask it's becoming a problem for the drivers. if you don't see that a lot of drivers have been in trouble what we read about in the. extreme situation dangerous situations occur every night and in many other parts of this is.

as bolivia celebrated its independence day on thursday the country was gripped by protests over delayed elections being put off twice already because of the pandemic interim president has previously stressed the health risks of holding the vote but now she accuses the bolivian election body of playing with dates she took to twitter to point out the she has nothing to do with the latest decision that she will respect the same time the government denounced ongoing protests and says they pose a danger to public health and safety and accuse former leader of iran as of inciting the quarter picks up 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 on 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 grown up in the country when it was. young people have called him is to go in a hunger strike until the government calls elections we no longer want to wait we want an action is now the court cited the covert 19 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. in american money.

is the most to lose if we don't. like. 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 reports 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. the day 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 how least containing their own interest is telephone numbers family interests and other personal information are being circulated violence top facebook and other social media. it has been publicly reported that the lifeless bodies of several people who were killed in the massacre disappear 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 a movement for socialism party perhaps it's just another read. and why for the interim government if there is no election there is no problem. with neo liberal puppet unelected kater imperialist countries who are in libya they're afraid of return of able more of this movement toward socialism. as kennedy are staying with defeat and yes the look cool mongering is why we continue to use cold meat as an excuse to say no i mean this will not we're just not popular when the oas and united states government talk about free elections of course they're talking about their candidates leading in the polls today in waiting in when their rubber stamps yes men and women alike.

income i'm sure are not in and can not take the elections and they come up with every excuse to close call. and that's it europe today what more could you want we probably one of the it's not top stories and they will be coming your way in half an hour.

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