it's midday moscow time in this thursday's headlines then facebook's power is questioned again and made accusations of censorship and stifling free speech as its oversight board holds up donald trump we'll tell you more ahead. this is one to watch tempers fraying in the waters off jersey with britain sending its navy to that island territory as france threatens to pull the plug an electricity there and fishermen to pluck a thing a local port. nato starts its largest exercises in decades in albania with officials claiming they're transparent and defensive despite them being right on russia's doorstep.

hello there very good day from russia live from world news age q moscow kevin here with me this 6 of may those headlines in more detail than donald trump won't be posting on instagram or facebook any time soon their oversight board is up held the ban it imposed on the ex-president of those capitol hill rights in january a move that reignited the debate about free speech online is kind of mopin explain . now the facebook oversight board said that they give facebook 6 months as a corporation to determine an appropriate penalty for donald trump while they are currently upholding the ban they are passing on to the corporation other that ban should be permanent how exactly that should continue many look at this is almost a good cop bad cop routine here's what we heard from the oversight board the

board's farms the 2 posed by mr trump one general with the 6th. to thies books community standards and the instagram's community guidelines given the seriousness of the violations in the ongoing risk of violence facebook was justified even suspending mr trump's accounts on general the 6th and extending that suspension on generally the 7th however it was not appropriate for facebook to impose an indefinite suspension now the facebook oversight board which has been referred to widely as the supreme court of facebook was 'd created at the decision of mark zuckerberg the chief of facebook however he does not control it though it's funded by the facebook corporation its decisions are said to be independent of what the private corporation wants now the ban on donald trump was imposed after the january 6th capital riots and at that point mark zuckerberg said that donald trump would remain off facebook to ensure a peaceful transition of power however 2 weeks later donald trump was out of the

white house joe biden had taken the oath of office donald trump remained off facebook and that has been the case for 4 months for 4 months donald trump has not been on facebook major social media outlets have banned him donald trump reacted to today's decision by the facebook oversight board calling it a disgrace and here's what we heard from trump what facebook twitter and google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment so the country these corrupt social media companies must. bryce must never again be allowed to destroy and does some 8 electoral processes now donald trump at this point has set up his own web site in order to communicate with his supporters who will be posting and updating his own website just as he once did with twitter and facebook now the case raises lots of big questions about this facebook oversight board and how its decisions are reached and it should be noted that back in 2019 mark zuckerberg said that it really

shouldn't be private corporations that are censoring politicians what i believe is that in a democracy it's really important that people can see for themselves what politicians are saying it's they can make their own judgments and you know i don't think that a private company should be censoring politicians or news so the trumps news site created an account on twitter where it was reposed messages despite the account insisting it actually wasn't himself doing the tweeting it was quickly suspended. into it and see jack dorsey to remove it started trending forward from campaign advisor current geo no and america's on contact host chris hedges shared their views on the dangers digital monopolies pose in their view to free speech. they have created these digital monopolies which should be broken up if they can do it to head of state like trump they can do it to a head of state like merkel or somebody else that they don't like what they really

want to shut down or any critics on the right or the left of neo liberalism of corporate capitalism of the crimes of imperialism and. we just it's not a world that we want to enter because it essentially snuffs out the free flow of information we must remember they know everything about us we know nothing about them and it sets a very dangerous precedent now it's a whole new paradigm and one that i find very terrifying i think this should actually terrify every single american any single citizen in the free world because we're looking at. a private corporation who is operating as a platform and one day and a publisher the next day they can have have it both ways but apparently they are right now these individuals whether they are the c.e.o. of the company or a boord were representative of of the company itself to make these decisions to

silence americans or elected officials and only becomes. a question of free speech we have a corporation an american corporation that is arguably more important and more powerful than elected representatives. tench a hot spot to tell you keep an eye on this the u.k. is unleashing the months of its royal navy today as a post greg said spot with ron so the fishing rights has intensified quickly it deployed a patrol vessel to the waters off jersey to paris threaten to leave the island without power it says french fishing boats were allegedly denied licenses to troll now the waters between france and jersey of been shared fishing territory for hundreds of years the island belongs to the u.k. but it relies pretty heavily on the islands around it to on france for some of its i mean it sees the u.k.'s e.u. divorce though as scuppered the status quo in the last couple of days has got

really heated as shallow depend ski explains. with paris london heads fishing in british waters the noise out of french minister has no threat to plunge the u.k. jersey into your kindness unless french trawlers continue to have access. to government provides free tell you term measures and these measures of retaliation we are ready to use europe france has means they are inscribed in the agreement and so far as jersey's concerned i'll remind you for example of electricity transportation by undersea cable so we have the means and even if i regret that we could get to this point it will get there if we must. with france supplying almost all of the island's electricity this is a serious warning the electricity from france travels through jersey not to go and see as well so that. you know hospitals etc would be left with just

a really really. sort of threat to my it's a very draconian. measure and it's not the only threat coming from france the u.k. is expecting a number of authorizations from us on financial services we will not give any until we have guarantees that's one fisheries and other issues the u.k. respects its commitments its give and take each side should respect its commitments otherwise we will be as brutal and difficult as necessary until the brig's it deal french vessels have the right to continue fishing in british waters if they had done so before the u.k. left the e.u. what's causing problems now is the required proof to show that french a fisherman claim that they are having problems obtaining licenses. were discovered

that he had given a number of authorizations but even more so they have put in place conditions for the right of fishing conditions that limit us to today's conditions that limit the number of days we can fish in the year limitations and fishing gear for the fishing zones they have been created all of a sudden without saying anything without warning anyone and without going through thistle channels with this ng measures suddenly everyone discovers that there are on acceptable fishing conditions economically unbearable for french norman and breton fishing companies to complicate matters while jersey is a u.k. crown dependency it's responsible for its own waters and the island's fishermen think that they are the ones that get. during the rough end of the deal you know that he reports to the. regulated controlled fishing. protection of digitals fisherman and you know we've had a mass usually

a really big rich. but it doesn't really matter so much. a little i would like to see tensions have been rising for some time now with claims that only 22 from 120 boats that were crumb or to france region have been given access leading to a blockade in the port to. the u.k. denies these claims saying the licenses have been issued to all 87 french vessels that have applied for them and met the criteria well more than 40 boats have been specifically authorized to fish in jews ease waters. as the realities of briggs it sinking jews the islanders and french fishermen alike it seems have been left trawling for answers jollity been ski r.t. paris. will talk i look in france is the designs on next story covert along coded

in the questions over the months of 8 key bones stomach pains headaches of that one mother terrified for his son's welfare high the ball is just one parent sound the alarm right now than about the british government's approach in her view to long over the family sure the government's greater attention they say. everything back. to. getting. them and i'm sure they're looking at that and i know wow and that may have. the issue maybe not such a degree of my son's guards or some other kids i mean there's a lot while the my son the government got to. get one by rest and that we need and or children and tears that we can take our

children to get this that or and and i know you think they need now and the support they need me mentally and emotionally and that is what we need here in the u.k. long covert involves a range of symptoms and complications that can still happen several months after infection we're talking a headache for t. difficulties thinking coughs skin rashes insomnia the list goes on each patient has their own sets and variances all of it for the moment it's unclear how long it all goes on for according to the office for national statistics try to paint some picture of it a 1000000 people in the u.k. reported long covert symptoms in march with men experiencing at least one of the symptoms for 12 weeks seems the percentage of kids is comparatively low compared to other age groups a bit of a clue there id born again says the main problem is no one really quite knows how to act at the moment still. he was really ill up until october and now he he has.

you know got back so since january august they have more good faith and bad but we have equal attack for example he just had an attack if we can't. with the greek with my son's attacks he always does think he's there while there. but he you know this time he looked him up or learn. he gets headache. and stomach pains but then it could be another time it might be late and he also had to prevent this harness wow go through a wave of different front ends and he can be why for now he's fine can be fine for wake and then it will come back as a mom when you see your son really suffering and there is no way of him getting better you show help us no dots really know what to do and the cropping you have in

really long cut it is that it's not one system that affects it it's various systems they need just your heart specialist you need. a fast phone and charlotte if you need to. you know you need to see a lung specialist in all these different people and the problem you have is no one deal with everything you can all go in but if people and it's light you want them to join up the door but they're not an achievement it will fix. major nato military exercises a kicked off an albanian descend the europe it's called is not one of them but this year's drills are supposed to be the largest in decades our senior correspondent were goes dave says the reasons for it too are not too hard to guess. nato immediately after calming down and russia with the propaganda equivalent of far and brimstone for daring to stage a snap military exercise has followed suit with the biggest nato war games the

continent seen in 3 decades but it's different they say you just don't understand. i'm going to continually talk about what we're doing it's called transparency it's a wonderful thing and we're not getting that at a mosque allen and we and we have it so that's a big difference right there and it's a defensive exercise which is you know a lie straight and in you'll face they don't really takes a cursory look at the brochure or a visit to a u.s. embassy website for all the talk of russian aggression that isn't russian paratroopers practicing offensive operations in mexico along the border with texas it's american paratroopers dropping deep into simulated enemy territory and alice drive from russia's very real border has.

the scoop that the sexes he's lost they were announced well ahead across 16 nations near enough 30000 nato troops thousands of vehicles ships and jets will pound away at targets and dummies to send a message usually you don't say to who it's understood but again ukrainian officials to the rescue ukraine by the way also taking part in these war games with the purpose of the exercises from the baltic to the black sea is to train and let us speak plainly for war with russia witnesses the thing is every year these need to war games get bigger and bigger more hardware more countries more american

troops somehow defending themselves closer and closer to russia's borders russian drills are getting bigger too and we knew how irritable nato gets. when someone else dez hold large military exercises there are all who are concerned about a massive military buildup on the rush of hamas and this misery build up stop per provocations. escalate the level of hysteria that followed the crimean military exercises was deafening it was everywhere and on everything how bare russia do this in the general vicinity of nato countries and not for a moment since all before has nato even considered our other countries feel when american troops are practicing invasion scenarios kilometers from their borders. it's international law even. though in here coming up

a new poll finds that around the world the biggest perceived threat to democracy is the one was supposed to be it's because america will look at why after this break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in this very dramatic development the only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

hello again thanks for choosing us today so as you head going into the break that america has been named the world's biggest threat to democracy despite being touted as it's supposed beacon a poll conducted by the alliance of democracies foundation placed it above china and above russia the organization was founded by anders fogh rasmussen the former

nato secretary general. seems he had more than 50000 people from 53 countries took part in the. big respondents there 44 of those responders agreed that washington's influence in their view was a threat china came in 2nd russia came in 3rd all the same the us secretary of state along with his british counterpart on monday nonetheless singled out beijing and moscow as the malign influence is responding to a situation where our values are being challenged the international architecture is at least in some respects being weakened together our 2 countries recently took measures to prevent british and american businesses from inadvertently supporting forced labor actions wrong and elsewhere and china will continue our robust cooperation to address the atrocities and change on a crackdown on pro-democracy activists and politicians in hong kong which breaches china's international commitments and the repression of media freedom across china

and in other parts of the world i also want to thank the united kingdom for joining us in holding russia to account for its reckless and aggressive actions. historian author gerald home told us public support for washington's power places on the wane including in europe. people across the globe are not naive and they come to the simple conclusion that the united states is the bully on the block obviously they're seeking to launch a new cold war not only against china but against china and russia combined it's part of the psychological makeup of those who rubin understates to be the leading country on planet earth and they see that now meeting their grass and so they want to take down china by any means necessary and there's also opposition to russia because russia will not go along with this new cold war against china i think that poll results suggest that it will be difficult to launch that new cold war because

international public opinion is not only hostile to the idea but i think in europe in particular there is no knowing and growing realization that the united states would like to fight china and russia to the last european and i don't think the europeans are sufficiently naive to go for that bad bargain. something new in happening right now for you the russian foreign minister is fielding questions ranging from covert vaccinations to anti russian sanctions it was during a media briefing with his armenian counterpart let's bring in lifestyle not in a yerevan he goes down off a correspondent there good day sunshine a day down there what's been said. well kevin no this is just the 1st leg of sergei lavrov somewhat extended journey as he will be visiting azerbaijan next and well mending the relations between armenia and azerbaijan 2 nations effectively warring with each other. as somewhat dominated the agenda they. have on

the 2 nations of course having regional disputes over the go in a cab back and that's where the war went on last g.m. and so effectively according to both ministers as this process this process of achieving. long lasting peace is perhaps ever so slightly but it is moving forward as russia is the key mediator in. right now is trying to help facilitate such basic needs as people just returning to normal life returning to their houses repairing and just you know having access to some basic needs like food and water electricity and so on and so forth with and dishes goal eventually having both armenians and i said by johnny's living there side by side another matter on the table is covert vaccination helping armenia cope with the pandemic just recently

russia has shipped thousands of overt sputnik of the vaccine doses to armenia and right now are discussing of discussing the shipment of a 1000000 more doses and perhaps even having armenia produce sputnik be on its soil i've talked to many people here and pretty much everyone have told me that the situation with the vaccine availability only improved when russia shipped the 1st batch of sputnik the doses i also. of the russian top diplomat as to how he would describe the state of relations of russia with the e.u. because recently the block and most who have been engaged in what can be only described as a sanctions ping-pong against each other according to the russian foreign minister this is the this deterioration of relations has reached its peak since 2014 basically said that's when the e.u. pin the blame on the block that's when the e.u.

lavrov says started to dismantle an unprecedently unprecedentedly. good and huge and to scale a system of relations with the block and effectively right now he's saying this is the situation. it's truly horrendous but he's been the blame on the e.u. saying that well they started this dismantling they started they've adopted this practice of unilaterally sanctioning other nations of unilaterally imposing just branding some country an aggressor and unilaterally imposing sanctions he said that this the e.u. is following in america's footsteps obviously he has to have a value to the situation in the ukraine to the to the revolution in ukraine and later the situation with the crimea or ego thanks for your service peter because

more bit later we're now the good we're talking to tamping down there in clamping down other news the european commission says it plans to tighten foreign investment rules of the block with a particular are rooting out unfair competition from china when you open your home to guests then of course i think you as i expect you to treat your belongings your furniture. as. you would do you sell the same sense of care because they are at your guests and this is the same without single markets we want every company that operates in europe no matter where it comes from to respect our house rules and one of the oldest rules that we have is that we don't allow subsidies which harms fair competition. well the president of the european commission pointed out too that the proposed measures are to ensure a level playing field within the block it's been prompted by a recent surge of foreign takeovers of e.u.

companies and fears of further buying of firms who share prices have dropped during the pandemic the car mission intends probing takeovers with 250000000 euro or more and also wants to examine deals that involve foreign subsidies however all this is yet to be agreed by e.u. member states and companies are expected to lobby and push back really hard against it it also comes as a massive investment deal is suspended over ongoing concerns of human rights in china a political analyst we spoke to told us the e.u. isn't actually targeting beijing specifically here but this step may well lead to restricted access to the chinese market end of the day. the proposal is not direct china explicitly it goes going to a considerable implications for trade with china but there are other concerns at work as well for example trump when he was in office indicated an inclination toward a new national patient a certain history those related to a high 5 g.

and chips for example and the training we see now is toward the type of national industrial policy in the us under biden with broad bipartisan support for congress that's a problem that surviving sooner rather than later and this proposal that we're seeing would not only deal with china but also that potentiality there's also a problem of double standards both in direct and direct european subsidies or european companies have been substantial pre-code but also during the crisis era what this means for overall trade is unclear but each of these factors risk undermining trade relations broadly and may end up restricting european access to the chinese market is coming up to 29 paseo it means i've got a minute to tell you but some of the news stories briefly 8 days of clashes in colombia have left 24 dead and 800. the violence started off the demonstrators rallied against proposed government tax reforms those latest pictures into the new sense that. yemen is so often in the headlines for all the bad reasons hit by more

problems this time deadly flooding dozens have died with thousands left homeless the blows particularly hard because yemen is already in the grip of a humanitarian crisis that's being caused by the saudi led intervention that we've been talking about for years now. that's the headline some of the rap from us if you want to find out more or get involved in the conversation don't come running to social media plus have a chance to have you'll say as well as we go for now that have a good day. why

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