and i had lunch this hour of poll suggests that trust in the media last fall of an american in the wake of the elections of the mainstream media joe biden amid ongoing divisions in the u.s. . the muslim federations in france rejecting the new micron's anti extremism charter designed to combat radical islam president the paris islamic federation tells us why. draw many paragraphs anyway asking muslims to quote require that position is the subject of this subject look they have respect for years and years. the taste of things to come for u.k. travel is supposed to have returns as shopping to the spanish border crossings it

can take. them outside the. after checking a few items they basically just told me that the majority of you can't take through because the house processed vegetables on. them thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. a recent poll suggests trust in the media has fallen in the united states on both sides of the political spectrum despite a general upward trend among the other 26 countries in the survey. digs deeper. after it became clear in november the trumpet being ousted from near for office no one was more relieved than his greatest enemy the media i don't dare speak for my colleagues but i can tell you how difficult it has been as a journalist to cover this dark part of our history let's hope the attack on

journalists journalism and everyone and time to move into the light well don lemon who bravely soldier through those dark years has got his wish as joe biden was annoying to the 42nd president of the united states t.v. screens across america one man chicken filled with the rainbows and unicorns those lights that are that are just shooting out from the lincoln memorial i look it's like almost extensions of joe biden's arms embracing america president joe biden and vice president harris told. to greece or to regret out of the privacy of our hearts if just for a moment so that we all could share he doesn't keep a lot of things secret when it comes to his emotions and his and his family and his love for his family now reporters might have taken it easy on biden during the campaign trail but that john and mystic integrity demanded that they ramp up the pressure during his phosphates and office player who he donald trump's air force

$1.00 each this is such a good question such a good question because while america might be staring down the barrel of unprecedented political polarization civil unrest racial inequality a raging pandemic the annihilation of small businesses and sky high unemployment it's the future of the false one color scheme that really keeps people up at night but if journalists do decide to ask about one of the other insignificant challenges the us face says the head of state is only too willing to give a thorough answer do. you think he. or i would feel you were the u.s. is right now. we're down to your city's number one. young man give him a break it's his 1st day on the job he's tired probably could do with a nap anyway what do you think this is a press conference meanwhile over in florida donald trump goldfinger his way back

into civilian life is probably feeling a bit hard done by because just months ago was a study showed that 95 percent of u.s. broadcast coverage of triumph was negative and to make it was he could even tweet about it. could be embarrass himself in any. further you look small he just looks like a small man. we all lived through a president who was assisted in his elevation to the white house by illegal assistance from a hostile foreign power with so much glaring bias is that anyone to trust in mainstream us media has hit a record low reporters that probably patting themselves on the back they survive but don't care if they did it a holiday right but does it show not like apart from a softball question here and there for the biotin fun club sorry the mainstream media the next 4 years will be spent kicking back and taking it easy.

the media is supposed to be the bit the state of supposed to be the watchdog they're not supposed to be in the public relations business the trust in the media in the us is is has declined it's been declining for many years. the public is correct to suspect that journalists are not being fair what we need to see is a robot have all of the principles that facts count and you know if you need to hear both sides to a story what's going on going on right now is just the opposite of that and some of the so-called for at checkers are anything but they're basically trying to tip the scales in again in favor of 11 side and they're not looking at it objectively. well the fall in trust in the major comes hot on the heels of the us elections we saw divisions violently spill over in the capital siege the clashes also breaking

out in portland seattle and demba just aliza joe biden's available address. auntie's chris had just spoke to philosopher chomsky he believes that deep division in the us is the thing. we were always at war united states is one of those rare countries that's been at war almost every day since its founding what we just saw we have the most wonderful military system in the world to defend america and if you look at the oath of office that the chief of staff from chairman of the joint chiefs takes that's to defend america against enemies foreign and domestic was able to defend the capital couple of the under nurse x. . not that i noticed one of the most remarkable things that trump has done was to dismantle the entire arms control regime how we perceive reality

and i want to discuss that that how is our cultivated perception of reality a form of social control of course you referred to graham cheney well we're seeing pretty dramatic examples of that right now no united states is always trying to do good things but makes mistakes here and there and we have to correct these mistakes him but everything is fundamentally wonderful and so this assault on the couple of shows the power of american democracy because we didn't collapse into a fascist state and that enabled us to show that american democracy in its magnificence of the triumph. media and we're seeing a kind of a replica of that no the symbol really serious ills. or. of the republicans who've gone off the spectrum but those are not being

discussed what's being discussed there's a cruise. that didn't come out of nowhere. 3 muslim federations in france have refused to back emanuel micron's anti extremism charter the president has been touting his charter as a way to fight radical islam we regret that this charter was signed before getting the approval of all components of the french council of the muslim faith we believe that some passages and wordings of the submitted text are of a nature that will weaken the ties of trust between the muslims of france and the nation in addition some of the declarations infringe on the honor of muslims exhibiting an accusatory and marginalizing character a number of other muslim federations did sign up to the charter that after intense and drawn out discussions the charter envisions the setting of a new national council responsible for vetting a man's practicing in the country it rejects polarized brands of islam and

reaffirms equality between men and women is the mystery writ its ugly head again in france 2 months ago that was when a teacher was beheaded for showing his class cartoons of the prophet mohammed. i'm not talking patridge was the victim of an islamist terror attack. that. establishing islam is a religion that is in crisis today all over the world and we don't just see it in our country yet it don't humorless america and the will of the islamists is precisely to turn our citizens against the republic using their religion and we cannot let that happen. the attack on samuel party triggered a crackdown against extremist mosques and islam is dissociation as you heard from

40 sara kier president of the paris based islamic confederation which rejects micron's charter he told us why. some of these look at humans we disagree on a number of matters one being the group this charter was to be addressed to at the beginning it was about drafting a charter republican principles of the national council of so it was supposed to concern mosques here we find ourselves with the charter of principles of islam and france and if they were to make the proper distinctions many paragraphs anyway asking muslims explicitly to clarify their position on subjects that are of this subject that they have respected for years and years those are any problems for them as for the principles of the french republic the french people of the muslim face all live in this country in serenity in respect of the values of the french republic little gauge us all we do not have to ask them explicitly to measure their

religious convictions to prove how respectful they are to the values and principles of the french republic it is certain that the right and to muslim bags we call that islamophobia we're not going to get into semantics we have a commission called fight against islamophobia so we call it that the reason deaton increase and these acts especially in light of current events now i also don't want to say the result institutionalized islamophobia in france i really think that our country is doing its best to fight against and to muslim acts against islamophobia but that does not mean that these kinds of acts are not increasing. a taste of the things to come and now that britain's left the e.u. a britain living in spain and working in the u.k. controlled enclave of gibraltar has had this shopping bag emptied by spanish border guards and was forced to leave behind much of its content at the border an individual case but it highlights a change of rules for britons crossing the blocks from tears. usually you just walk

straight through a wall they might be out check your bags out call tobacco whatever. they showed them a bag and they they took the time to look for a little bit more carefully than they normally day and they started back probably this night pulling everything out after checking a few items they basically just told me that the majority of this you can't take through because it has processed vegetables on it and saying that they were going to essentially just put them in the vent. and confiscation was in keeping with the travel guidelines which prohibit travelers from bringing meat dairy products and process vegetables from no member states among the things that got the we spoke to into trouble was processed the news in a spicy source did try to make the best of that situation though eventually selling the prohibitive products at a loss online they think it's reasonable i had a brief conversation with one of the guards in the in the office there and made my

point if i can take these items it seems to me that would be more like a large quantities not for personal items and there was no documentation to support a fact at least to my knowledge at that sign that i can take these things over so. if this is already happening in the 1st week after the break so then you are really into space a few a few other issues. as it stands going forward i think at the moment we're still in which a bolter is actually having to negotiate an agreement with spain due to us being left out of the brits g.'s my a surroundings and some things i was going through the time for just moving around a lot i didn't get much into to vote and i really wish i had had i voted as a set of really wish i had i would have stood with the 9097 percent of gibraltar that chose to remain because that i didn't really see any benefit whatsoever for us to leave the european union. next on our post brags it menu sour grapes

has around breaks out after the news ambassador to britain was denied full diplomatic status now london insists it's not obliged to treat representatives of international bodies the same as foreign diplomats working for nation states unless london changes tag the new ambassador will not be able to get approval by the queen as the head of a diplomatic mission the u.k.'s decision is at odds with the way the blocks representatives are treated in most other countries and london's move doesn't sit well with brussels we are not the national organisation of the we are of the union i think it would be vice in my view to for do you could to find. britain's foreign office just try to allay brussels concerns saying the ease representative will receive quote the privileges and immunities necessary to carry out their work in the u.k. effectively political commentator john fryer believes that london's approach could backfire. i think this is

a really absurd position that the british government has taken because after all we were members of the european union for nearly 50 years and brags that a part is not enough they now want to downgrade the status of the european union and although more than $150.00 countries around the world give full diplomatic privileges to iran bassa does under the vienna convention and this is the situation that he's landed to sit in now with the government surrounded by cabinet ministers who support this nationalistic break z.t. airline which is actually not a toll championing britain's global role as he would see it the diminishing britain's role in the international stage if we want to have a good working relationship with the 27 neighbors who are our main trading partners has taken as a whole we really need to have a much more. grown up as you 2 towards this when you're coming up they think

staying without a short break. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confront

cation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. ok back we always knew the tech elite was in a class of its own but now it's been proved research is from germany and america have analyzed the tweets of technology does that include musk mark zuckerberg and bill gates and they found that they see themselves on the world very differently to everyone else. we find that the 100 richest members of the tech world reveal

distinctive attitudes that set them apart from both the general population and from other wealthy elites as a group they are meritocratic lee inclined concern with the well being of their fellow human beings and relatively supportive of democratic society yet their position in a democratic system is contradictory as a result of their enormous wealth they have disproportionate influence over how discretionary income is spent. on police say the number one live in the lineup by the authors of that research we've got professors who could brockman and john torpey who's in the us a good morning and thanks for getting up to speak to us and also dr so i'm not sure who i should but which question to so i will name somebody put a question to you but if you decide one of the others is maybe better equipped to answer up feel free to pass it along or discuss it amongst yourselves so come 1st to you. first of all why did you conduct this research what did you feel was going

to be of value. well i mean the answer it was always interesting to see especially in these times at the relevance increase even the other discussions about the power of big corporations now political discourse about the science those are not you. know important and this we decided to study basically whether. their technological expertise and the enormous accumulated wealth in the end. in the future. so you are assessing wealth power the role in society what did you conclude. well the 1st thing is that we wanted to see if we group these people together and they target a distinctive way and that's what we could see and we could you and we use modern advanced digital technologies machine learning in order to figure out even if we

chop all their discourse on twitter under websites into single words we could see that they're different than the general population we asked us are that they see similar to the general population that there is a relationship between power and money and. power and democracy but what these. technically it's actually distinct from the rest of the population that they don't make this linkage between democracy and money and that was interesting because it's actually not very large to call if you see a relationship between the other 2 components they seem to play down that there is a relationship we assume that they misinterpret. john did you come to the conclusion that in some way these tech leaders are more democratic or are they they

the great believes in democracy it is very easy to be democratic isn't it when when you're so wealthy so powerful and you can kind of throw some crumbs out to the masses and you can be generous with your your time and your attitude. well i think these are people who generally speaking you know have a democratic disposition but they tend to be. suggesting they tend to be under perhaps a certain amount of illusion of you know their own position. the fact that they have so much wealth gives you know unavoidably a great deal of influence and sometimes they don't you know necessarily see that there's a certain inconsistency between those positions i mean at some level this is simply unavoidable with wealthy people and isn't necessarily exclusive to the supposed people generally but i think one of the things that's striking about this group is

you know how sincerely they seem to articulate these desires to. make the world a better place so at one level i think we have to take that very seriously sonorously. meant but there is an inconsistency between you know great wealth and influence and a more democratic society more generally. could join was just saying that you know these are. almost gods let's be honest the power that they wield they don't necessarily understand the influence. pitot pops up thankfully dangerous situation how being great power not necessarily understanding it and i'm being human being very sort of flawed in the way you will that. well i mean i think in order to answer this question we we left my data this is a highly relevant question i completely agree with you but what we did we just look

political communication and communication is a piece out on twitter in order to an order to understand the consequences more broadly and what you process dangers i think we will have to have interviews with these people and sort of to process tracing of the consequences. that happen due to this kind of thinking. when i was put in the question are potentially dangerous so that we do see indications of how power can be. potentially abused if we look at the social media companies they've been kicking people off their platforms recently that they believe that they're being democratic but surely silencing free speech by any would argue is is non-democratic that they have a lot of power and again is it god like this ability to say you can't speak your silenced because i have the power and i don't like what you say well i think this is the general the bank now popping up and it's indeed i mean it doesn't really

fall down in front of study we must more humble and modest with our. analysis but i think the general debate that actually kicks this hour last. here is and even days. make this make this very clear that if you have. power in the hands of very few you know it's very fragile and since this is a general purpose technologies that inspires in all areas of. our lives these days i think it will be more and more important to really get more people on board and to have more checks and balances yes. john i'm. still banging on about how much power they've got but they do you have that much power so much so that they migrated information about pretty much all of us if you're on if you're on the internet on any social media they have aggregated pretty much all the information of all our private lives where we go what we do what our

interests are have you noticed anything in the sort of profile of the people we're talking about the kinds of personalities that attracted into this industry and who make it to the top. i mean this story goes far beyond really anything that we did in this study and again the methods we adopted precisely to do with the fact it was simply impossible for us to actually have interviews with the people we're talking about so we're going to try to do more with this kind of research but you know the idea of actually talking to the just has proved successful so what do you get a sense of them from from what they were writing in social media are they very. going to put this the dumbed down and it's been carefully picked through to make sure there's nothing offensive in there or do they let's some like isla musk some

of them actually that their personalities come through oh i think most of them tell you what they think. so you do you get a sense of that's personalities from in that sense where we are where we are really we're not looking at those kinds of questions i mean we are looking at the kinds of words that they use in their ordinary discourse how does a compare to ordinary people ordinary twitter users anyway. you know other segments of the political and economic elite. so we're really just focusing on the kinds of language that they use when they're not you know being particularly you know conscious of what they're saying and just ordinary communications on twitter you know what sorts of things to they seem to emphasize and that's basically a question of how frequently they use different words how do they differ you would think that you know high profile people with lots of money you think to be fairly

similar some distinguishing factors i think the point is really we didn't really look into personality types not psychological you know it's has been very well established what how to research facilities what you see however is a certain pattern i mean these people are again tack they were made they are middle aged they come mainly from the united states and china these days because they only look at the very wealthy as wealthy as the richest people and they are i think when you look into the discourse on twitter well picked in that respect is that they have very positive very you they they choose very positive emotions less negative emotions than the general public than the general public and that probably also indicates because they you know they have been very successful and they probably you know try to also in their philanthropic activities you know it's you

that they could be also that positive and that successful. in other areas as well while you know normally people are more you know in sick here their outreach they really are and i'm going to try to guide us to other people's and that intention that they're. leading the way here so i think i don't have is. i think that that's what transpires. i mean i might also be not so you have very quickly just one final point where i just want to say it may also be true that nurse and particularly successful ones are optimistic about the world in general or they would never do the kind of risky things that are drug runners do you guys many thanks for your time my guest dr professors who. professor john torpey thanks so much to. you.

people have taken to the streets in a number of russian cities in the far east of the country they're calling for the release of opposition activists to lex in a van dijk who is detained upon returning from germany on sunday for violating the terms of his parole activists say 3000 people turned up from the north arise rally in blood of a stock blocking traffic in the city center police used force to disperse the crowd though detaining dozens of participants some of those taking part in the pits have been school children well into the age of 18 the children's own bus minister what she described as opposition activists using children as a human shield against the police similar scenes played out in the city of chita though on a smaller scale with a few 100 demonstrators marches are expected later in the day all across the country with the main focus being on moscow none of these planned events have been authorized. of it but we will bring you details of them when they take place i'll be back with more for you in half an hour. i.

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