in the same room, you know, this emotional bond between us is very different. and finally, she will bring this back to 4 teenagers are reportedly charged in connection with the beheading of a teacher in france last month. another person who was taken into custody is a known islamic radical also ahead. r.t. journalists are among those injured as emotions run high in the argentinian capital, as fans grieve for diego maradona ecuador's, former president. rafael correa, shared his tributes to the late football star. the new regime self was from a poor family, so he knew 1st hand what it was like,

living in hardship. and here we saw it as these duty to change something. that's what gave him a close relationship and sympathy from progressive leaders in latin america and facebook friends, joe biden. that's the claim of critics who say the social media giant is being too easy on the president elect in its fight against fake news. to my mom to my dad, to my brother, kyle and everyone sitting around the turkey today. happy thanksgiving. you're watching r t international walk into the program. now in france for teenagers are said to have been charged in connection with last month's brutal beheading of a teacher. among them is reported to be the man of the daughter of a man behind in an online campaign against samuel paddy. he was killed after showing cartoons of the prophet muhammad to his class during a lesson on free speech. charlotte devinsky reports. well,

3 of the individuals are said to be 1314 years old, and they have been indicted for complicity in a terrorist assassination. and that's because they're said to have been the teenagers who pointed out to samuel parties who he was there for allowing that beheading to take place. the 4th teenager who has also been indicted is said to have been the daughter of the man who is widely regarded as being behind the media frenzy surrounding that lesson when some new party showed controversial cartoons of the muslim prophet that sparked anger in the local community. she has been indicted for the slander. now all 4 individuals have since been released, but they are being monitored by controls. here in france, let's take a reminder of what happened. leading up to the murder of samuel patti.

one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our compassion. it was the victim of an islamist terror attack. a number of individuals have been hauled in front of the police. some have been charged, some have been let free. others have in fact receive sentences and condemned for their part in the surrounding storm regarding that, including one mother who was sentenced for apparently celebrating his death in a facebook post. and a man from algeria who is condemned for glorifying terrorism. again, by referring to samuel patty's death,

there's also been this huge fallout. president was clear following the death of senator patty, that france wouldn't roll back from showing controversial images when it comes to talking about freedom of speech that sparked huge protests in some muslim majority, countries. needs a mental health treatment was good cause he is a case and therefore he really needs to have mental checks that have enough cash that were present. my corn has been infuriated by some english language media saying that they have twisted his words over the last 2 months or so suggesting that he was attacking islam in some way, rather than islam ism. and there's been

a huge amount of fake news, too. surrounding the new which is to crack down on separatism here in france. but the reality is that many muslims here in france feel that they are being singled out. they are being targeted, not just by this law, but by the forelock force happened since summer. patti's murder, and it's likely that this is an issue that is going to rumble on for some time. football fans around the world have been mourning the death of argentinian superstar, diego maradona, and the argentinean capital emotions boiled over as thousands gathered to pay their respects. police reportedly used rubber bullets and tear gas against agitated fans who were demanding more time to say goodbye r t journalists covering the story were injured as well. one was hit by a stone and another by a rubber bullet. i think

the real money and the italian city of naples fans waved flags and sang club songs dedicated to the late start. the night sky was also turned bright red, as supporters said, all flares in tribute are dona played for napoli for 7 years, helping the club to win the league title for the 1st time in its history. maradona was famous for his antics both on and off the field, but he will be remembered as one of the sport's all time greats.

and i never thought this day would come. my 1st title is gone. my only idol is the greatest of all of the master football, the one who gave to say everything. and when i heard about it, i died with him. that's what happened to me.

we spoke to a close friend of mine at the former ecuadorian president rafael correa. this is a loss for the whole world for the entire argentinean nation. it's a catastrophe. you can't even imagine how maraton is adored when he did so much for the country at the 86 world cup in mexico. i wasn't at that world cup, but i was in italy in the 90s when maradona played for napoli. he was adored, especially in southern italy, so much so that even during the argentina, italy match. many italians supported argentina because of the number 10 because of diego armando. without doubt, he was a leader, a leader that never hid his political leanings, he was in favor of progressive politics. but even if you lean toward the right,

it wouldn't matter. because 1st and foremost were his personal qualities, his honesty, his leadership, his habit of seeing what he thought, one way or another in a was a warrior for social justice. he was a rebel and fought against injustice and hypocrisy of the world order. he himself was from a poor family, so he knew 1st hand what it was like, living in hardship. and here we saw it as these duty to change something. that's what gave him a close relationship and sympathy from progressive leaders in latin america like fidel castro, cuba childhoods, ever more else. mr. q. and the man you're speaking with right now, but the overwhelming majority of the argentinean people in origin, china very well. not only love but worship diego armando. there's even a church in his name. and if he was a legend while he was still alive, the now when he has raced past us and left this world, he's playing football up there in the heavens. with those who have also left us, the legend has become a myth, understand the diego more adonis, is

a mythical character for argentina and much of the world. facebook has made what it calls a temporary emergency change to its news algorithm in response to the us presidential election. the social media giant says it's trying to eradicate misinformation, but one consequence appears to be giving a preference to content considered less critical of joe biden. a week after the election, some facebook staff referring to the algorithm as the nicer news feed, reportedly discussed the possibility of it becoming a permanent feature eaters don of has more election fraud 2 words you would never associate with the united states of america. now a phrase that could send fists flying in the country allegations of cheating have also outgrown the issue of a vote recount. as some republicans claim they've been conned elsewhere too. on social media. you know, the people there that i hear from, of course, believe that conservatives were wrongfully being silenced,

while those on the left that were given basically a free rein to your platforms. at 1st glance, the allegations that facebook's nonpartisan algorithms have been tweaked to give biden an upper hand don't seem too old after all, biden, and his team have been rather unflattering towards the platform to say the least. i have never been a big fan of facebook as you probably know. i've never been a big zuckerberg fan, but the latest report suggests that this could all be smoke and mirrors, and that facebook is already buttering up the new white house landlord from promoting content which rubber stamps joe biden's talking points to secretly screwing tight the traffic for publications, by non-mainstream and pro republican outlets. it resulted in a spike in visibility for big mainstream publishers like c.n.n. the new york times and national public radio,

while posts from highly engaged hyper partisan pages such as breitbart and occupy democrats became less visible. facebook denies any bias explaining its strives to achieve balance to the best of its ability, but some actions speak louder, suggesting a mutual affection. the supposedly facebook loathing joe biden doesn't seem to have a problem hiring from the roster. ready ready 'd

biden's deputy communications director also seems to have had a change of heart and deleted tweets, giving facebook a dressing down executive roles. we have permission this country. they control who sees what they censor. conservative news, big tech. it's been working towards this for 4 years, and it will be bored to ensure that joe biden wins their party is the democrat party. so of course, you're going to see former c.e.o.'s from facebook from, from other technology companies. they are, these are joe biden's people. previously, facebook has repeatedly found itself in hot water with the u.s. authorities. it seems this time the giant has finally learned its lesson and is preemptively raising their hand that could very soon be feeding it. it will facebook's new algorithm up for debate. i don't believe it is the place of the big tech company to govern what is and is not considered to be 100 percent true. when

you have an algorithm that is created by human beings to determine what's true, what has iraqi and what doesn't. right? it's unfortunately, it doesn't always get it right. and then you have the least morning. it's almost create it with a bit too. are it's on silencing things that, you know we, we may not like. and that's not the basis of what we should be silencing people. want there's many instances in which they go ahead and take factual stories down. what was the deal with the new york post tory about the hunter biden laptop? i mean, if you tweeted about that, your tweet would be taken down. if you posted on facebook, you were posting with some sort of a disclaimer, but this is something that you know, that the vine campaign had never denied you know these far, these conspiracies and this white supremacy, garbage and all this other stuff has nothing to do with the conservative side of, the aisle in the, in the g.o.p. what d.s.u.

is, were truthful stories were being dissed put disclaimers on and that her throat leading up to the election because they couldn't talk about things like hunter biden excepting foreign payments. and then being repositioned basically to do that with joe biden's victory. we know that facebook's trained to operate in order to make money. they've been making money and over and order a new thing. that's what they mentality. we know that they're suppressing it was there maybe some suppression of news that should be great britain up. and we also know that they are taking down people who are saying the holocaust never happened. i disagree with the whole narrative of facebook is only are out for its business interest on this whole switch to being a publisher. goes ahead, it goes against the idea of it being a business model and a free in clearer kind of rain for people who are all different types of information. baseball is taking editorial position. whichever government it is,

there's going to be some control over what the media is saying. that's unfortunate . and it's up to people in order to educate themselves, which was the initial intent to have this democratization through social media. but it is been corrupted by the super rich, and that's why we see whether or not it's mainstream news looking like they're a propaganda for the, for, for the state run media, we have to be smarter than that and try together as a people and not be divided and that's what social media is trying to do to us. it was supposed to promote unity, but it's promoting a phobia instead that's the claim of russia's top diplomat who's taking a swipe at the council of europe. this story and more after the break.

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back to the program. russia's top diplomat has called out the council of europe for drifting away from its purpose of promoting unity, calling the body dangerously politicized. start to use. daniel hawkings has more russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is in the closing stages of a working visit to minsk where he met his but a russian counterpart, foreign minister and the 2 officials. this crossing both internal events in belarus over the past few months as well as of course relations between minsk and moscow. now, mr. lovell in the press conference after that meeting was very critical. of his german counterpart, high call muscle, presented his program for the coming 6 months in the politicized fashion. striking

an unacceptable tone. i would even go as far as saying it was rude, not how a diplomat should act. he made quite a few remarks again, they were baseless accusations regarding crimea, abkhazia south to set a year transnistria and the southeast of ukraine. there was referring to comments that high call mass made at the meeting of the committee of the council of europe, which germany is due to take presidency off shortly. in his speech mass was very critical of a number of points, 1st and foremost, crimea's reunification with russia, which the german foreign minister described as a violation of international law. that event has, of course, been a huge bone of contention between europe and russia for quite some time. russia views things very, very differently, stating that reunification took place democratically after a referendum on the peninsula. germany's top diplomats was also quick to point the

finger at other issues. russia's involvement in the conflict between georgia and south of setia as well as the presence of russian peacekeeping troops in the breakaway moldovan region of transistor tria. now love was very quick to return some of the criticism as world both foreign ministers in fact noted the amount of western involvement in other countries. internal affairs, most notably in belarus, following that presidential election in august and the political turmoil that ensued in the country. that's carrying on until this day, among other topics was the arms control treaties that stating there wasn't a lot to be discussed and not a lot of agreement could be reached on those issues with the outgoing u.s. administration. just let me start with the trumpet ministration. currently at the helm, i don't see how we could agree on anything in earnest regarding arms control. we don't know yet who the next administration will be comprised of. we'll see how those people will mold us policies after the 21st of january. a lot of this rhetoric we're hearing is neither new nor surprising, but with

a lot of these issues in particular, arms control the open skies treaty, which the u.s. pulled out from very recently, becoming salient over the past weeks and months. it's hoped that with the new incoming u.s. administration, it is his chance for both sides to take, a step back and have a fresh look at the situation. in the u.k., the architect behind the freedom of information act claims the government is nowadays deliberately obstructing the release of potentially sensitive data. kate partridge has the story. a storm is brewing in the u.k. about freedom of information with a new government. a new report by open democracy describes a so-called. oh, well you knew it's called the clearinghouse that it stops media requests and even blacklist journalists clearing house shares with a range of whitehall departments. a daily update containing the names of journalists and complain as the requests they have submitted and advice on how

referring to politicians should respond past in the year 2000. and the freedom of information act was meant to open up the workings of government requests for information were supposed to remain anonymous or applicant blind. and in theory could help keep the authorities in check. but according to this reports, the cabinet now rejects more requests than ever in general, more requests to turn down then responded to positively by the say, the central government departments. and indeed, the cabinet office here, which has kind of custody of the issue of freedom of information in this country. there was bad as, as the others, if not worse, in many ways. and one of the key issues is that this is a regulated by something called the information commissioner's office and they have a huge backlog. their resources have been slashed over the past decade and they don't even really to keep up with the complaints as when they come in, off government promise failing to respond. and the irony is that the government department is responsible for its budgets. and for the a very scene,

the agency generally is the cabinet office. number 10 says the consideration of foia requests remains applicant and most defined and the clearing house unit remains fully compliant. but there is growing criticism within westminster labor peer lord clarke of when dimia was instrumental in the becoming a law and is now calling for a government investigation into the controversial yunis, along with politicians across the spectrum. this clearing house is certainly against the spirit of that act, and probably the latter 2 ministers should explain to the house of commons precisely why they continue with this set up in view of the fact that it is contradictory to the whole purpose of freedom of information this is extremely troubling if the cabinet office is interfering in f. or i requests and seeking to work around their requirements of the act by blacklisting join. they say it is a grave threat to our values and transparency in our democracy. yet this storm over

the law has been brewing since it was past 20 years ago, under tony blair's government. after the then prime minister discovered that governments couldn't discuss any issues with a reasonable level of confidentiality. and freedom of information was mainly used by journalists. he cursed himself, you idiot, you know, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop. there is really no description of stupidity no matter how vivid it is and it could. i quote, you could, the imbecility of it. for political leaders, it's like saying to someone who's hitting you over the head with a stick. try this instead. and now it seems, boris johnson's government is also trying to put the lid back on the pandora's box . that the british public are legally entitled to open. partridge party loved archie russian host. maria has released a book about her time spent in a u.s. prison where it was a guns, right? gun rights lobbyist in washington d.c.

and was charged with espionage back in 2018. she claims she was forced to sign a plea deal which landed her an 18 month jail sentence, and it was while in prison that she began writing her prison diaries for more new world news stories. make sure to check out our website, r.t. dot com, let us know what you think to leave a comment. i'll be back with more in just about half an hour and i hope to see you then it's human. you know, millions of years to build up an emotional one when the communication happens within 10 milliseconds after that because it takes about $60000000.00 just now if we're to get the same room, you know, this emotional bond between us is very different and will bring this back

it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime, but old wounds still haven't healed all of us at the source me and that's important too. you know, newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption. i don't know to this day mothers still search for grown children hope for their birth parents. a member of

the board, most of the national news, new york city for times for us but the more you think you are you the weaker be but i hoard the bell. i don't like the local butcher to be somewhat go slow to start your own work or with your leave. there's a chance to start to look at your bullshit again. you look at this, i want you to be a reporter that you would like the are our there for our selves. erm.

erm. welcome to alec something shoo. the 30th of amber is scotland's national day sit on tuesday . and so this monday scots, around the world, this year, any responsible, socially distance fashion, will dawn of the famous tartan national dress and celebrate scotland and all things got ish. scotland shares our patron saint where the number of other countries russia greased and barbados, for example. the ubiquitous disciple is also the patron saint of singers spends tourists made his fishmongers fisherman get out. i'm sore throat. it's going to national flag this so far depicts a diagonal cross on which the seat was crucified. it is a famous flag for nautical feet. so the special issue to mark the occasion,

we look deep into history to the auditions of the flag and also come up to date with the latest controversy provoked by prime minister john sununu lace on the last 20 years of the reconvening of scotland's national parliament. has it been a disaster as claimed by the pm? what a considerable success, which seems to be the majority verdict of the scottish people. we speak to sir george reeves, the former presiding officer of the problem and, and then to billy kane about 5 celebrations and all things got ish but 1st, your tweet mess just e-mails in response to our show last week and 1st review from scott who says the presidential exists as a platform for good and for candidates with etiquette. failure to produce both at the appropriate time excludes the count is it. i don't know hocks as i think that is truly a tremendous change in america. and it's true, it will be a change in american politics. but she says we would like to have our greatest

transparent president, donald trump, to survive the strongest u.s. street and economic stability. john mcnally says trump's new is that after she sank, he said for years the democrats would take it and you think you would have a contingency plan. philip says the department for elections, etc, has said it's been the most successful and ford free election in modern history as a fanatic and a failure. finally, sally says, oh my dear america listened. trump is not a politician and he destroyed american political system and to destroy the american election system. do it for gate. of course, as ever, things are fast moving in the us of 8. i'm president of the house, of course, conceded the transition process. now perilous to johnson, maybe self isolating and dining street. but this is not doubt his talent for commanding the headlines he provoked last week by claiming in a call with north of england m.p.'s that the scottish parliament has been.