the, the news this hours headline stories, the highest court in texas rule, facebook is liable for a quote knowingly benefiting from sex trough occurs. it comes several victims to the company for a feeling to protect them from abusers, claiming their forced into prostitution via the network in the us state department issues, a warning telling americans not to travel to russia, placing the country in the same risk list up yellowstone syria and uganda for reasons including terrorism and a group of british m. b. 's hands are cross party letter to belmore, the prison, in which they demand the right to visit. wiki leaks, co founder julian us. orange, we hear from the former leader of the opposition was among those taking part. and

i've often spoken to about jonathan in egypt and mexico and indonesia, and many other places. but suddenly it's all different. julianna's colleges ah, 247 use lie from the russian capital. this is the news or an rti great to have your company. my names, you know, you in a ground breaking decision. the highest court in texas has rule about facebook can be held liable for quote, knowingly, benefiting from sex traffickers. it means the world's biggest social network will find it harder to take refuge under a law that sees platforms are not responsible for content posted by users. that says several victims recently sued facebook for feeling to protect them from

abusers who use the site to force them into prostitution of teenagers or senior correspond. murat garcia, reports. one of the girls suing facebook was 14, when a man of about 30 message to sunni methodically, he groomed her psychologically conditioned her for 2 years later, she would find herself in a motel room being rigged by strangers or another girls or 214, the predator, groomed her advertised on instagram traffic is used, instagram's arrange dates. as a result, plaintiff was raped numerous times for the plaintive rescue from the trafficking scheme. traffic has continued to use her profile to attempt the entrap of the mine is in the same manner. plaintiff's mother reports to these activities to facebook, which never responded the trio now suing facebook are an anomaly. many boys and girls. they never speak out because that fear because a virus mate and shame,

they could be your kids, my kids defenseless, against a veteran predator who prays on psychologically vulnerable kids news, their weaknesses, the amount of sex traffic is on facebook and instagram, which owns these booth. astonishing and revolting. the internet is a major platform for traffickers to recruit, sex traffic and victims, and solicit buyers of commercial sex in 202059 percent of online victim recruitment in active sex traffic and cases occurs and facebook page books, lawyers shouts about section $230.00. so section $230.00 is a law which states that online platforms cannot be held responsible for the words or actions of the users. which makes sense if you shut down every website where someone says something offensive that wouldn't be in into that left. except of course, facebook may have been complicit,

holding into platforms accountable for the words or actions that they use is one thing. and the federal president uniformity states that section 230 does not allow it's holding into that platform accountable for their own misdeeds is quite another thing. this is particularly the case for human trafficking. what do you have to do with a trafficker messages? someone through direct messages have moderates, has read every single private message that uses exchange, and facebook says that it's doing what it can. sex trafficking is apparent and not allowed on facebook, where continue to fight against the spread of this content and the predators to engage in it. except facebook really isn't putting up much of a fight, and the traffic isn't the p. the fall of using facebook much more brazen than you would think. plaintiff with 15 years old in 2012, when she was friend it by end of the facebook user, with whom she shared several mutual friends. the user profile featured photographs

of scantily clad young women in sexual positions with money stuffed in their mouths, as well as other deeply troubling content. according to reports, these pimps and traffickers even by up advertisement on facebook platforms, which facebook ads and does approve and makes money on that go the argument that facebook is complicit in under age sex trafficking, say louis representing the victims. and the courts agree we do not understand section $230.00, to create a lawless, no man's land on the internet, in which states a powerless to impose liability on websites that knowingly or intentionally participate in the evil of online human trafficking. if the case succeeds, facebook and other online johns will have a much tougher tab of hiding behind pieces of paper with section $230.00 stamped them claiming defied sex trafficking, even as they profit from hosting p to fall pages and running, grooming ads. know if this case succeeds,

facebook will actually have to start fighting the sex trafficking industry that has made its platforms a home. and the thing is that facebook comes under so much hurt me because they have this powerful censorship apparatus is our brightest to monitor every little thing happening on their site. and they choose to ignore the really agree to stuff and go over the political things to they're too busy removing, mean jokes, and any sort of speech that sensitive delicate, like when people might find defensive, when. meanwhile, there's actual crimes, apparently occurring on their side. really bad piano, facebook and it's good reasons or, you know, parents see the store is they're going to want their kids on instagram. facebook, rightly so. it's scary, spatial doesn't like press like this at all. they're, they're very scared of it. and especially where young people are concerned, they obviously want to young people and parents. they want to reopen young people. they want to get them hooked on these platforms and keep them to be lifelong users

. so facebook is going to want to clean it up simply for p r. i would imagine ok to another over a headline story. today the us state department has issued a special trouble alert warning. it's citizens not to head to russia under any circumstances. it starts a whole host of reasons for the decision do not travel to russia due to terrorism, harassment, by russian government, security officials. the embassies limited the ability to assist us citizens in russia and the arbitrary enforcement of local law. your citizens may become victims of harassment, mis treatment, and extortion. all u. s. government personnel should carefully consider their need to travel to russia or join. administrators are taste. dmitri pope, to help us make sense of all this blacklist thing. russia of late. it's pretty much in vogue. we know that. but what led to this particular decision maker? oh hi, sickly. we don't know what led to this specific decision. it kind of came out of the blue basically what happened was that the us state department updated its

travel advisory and russia is now declared a level for travel threat. basically that means cold read the highest threat level possible. do not travel to this country. although among other countries, a lot of other countries received this threat level recently, including many in europe, but most of those are due to corporate 19 reasons. russia, on the other hand, the reason is, according to the state, government is terrorism and potential abuse by government officials. and apparently, according to the state department, are traveling to russia is very, very danger that they were not subtle and their message. and basically they're saying that terrorists look around every corner here in russia. terrorist groups, trans national and local terrorist organizations, and individuals inspired by extremist ideology containing plotting possible attacks in russia. terrorists may attack with little or no warning targeting tories

locations, transportation hops, markets and shopping malls, local government, facilities, hotels, clubs, restaurants, places of worship, parks, major sporting and cultural events, educational institutions, airports and other public areas. basically, all these statements to people who have ever traveled to russia, people who live in russia. there. these warnings are just absurd and ridiculous and have nothing to do with reality. although the usa department, this specified the caucus region and places like chasing out standards, especially especially dangerous with high risk of terrorism and kidnapping. but the way the statement has been worded, it kind of doesn't apply just to those regions that applies to russia as a whole. and just for context, the us state department basically implies that traveling to russia is as dangerous as travelling to countries. like, again, it's dan, syria, libya literal wars zones. speaking of terror attacks,

the language does so chest that russia is almost a war zone. and of course, the nation can be affected by terrorism. but workout exactly. russia has obviously experienced terrorism in the past. just a couple of over a month ago, we had that incident in cars on. but if we take a look back at the years, terrorism hasn't been especially common or are, hasn't happened often in russia. and if we look at reports that came out every week, or every month, stabbings, beheadings, the shootings. all these things didn't happen primarily in russian. primarily they happened in countries like the us, the u. k. a, germany friends. those countries have avoided this highest level thread designation apparently, according to the us state department, this is just walking the streets of moscow is much more dangerous than experiencing what has happened in europe in the us or the past years. here's just

a few examples. for example, answered opened a terrorism investigation after a police employee was stabbed to death at the police station near paris. a terror attack in vienna. austria leave 2 people dead, including one of the gunmen 15 others are wounded. 7. seriously. this is the 3rd terror attack in just over a month in friends, becky and the 1st 2 were connected to the republication and friends of cartoons for news tonight about the deadly terror attack outside of paris. perhaps we should point out that if not that long ago, that we're hearing about the term stable, unpredictable relation to bite administration, seeing that's what they wanted with on from russia. how does that fit with these developments? well, basically just flies in the face of everything. the bio ministration has been saying the stuff we heard during the buying and summit, but it's not exactly surprising. sure, there's a lot of talk by this, by demonstration about stable relations,

treating each other fairly. but in practice it turns out to be basically a game of double standards and flip flopping when whenever it comes to us relations and 1st we're friendly, then rushes, not enemy number one level for travel thread. and meanwhile the administration keeps saying stuff like this. we see a predictable, stable relationship with russia. we want a stable, predictable relationship. we are not looking to de escalate. we would prefer to have a more stable, more predictable relationship. president food and i had a share unique responsibility to manage the relationship between 2 powerful and proud countries. a relationship that has to be stable and predictable. all these statements obviously, sounds lovely and there's a lot of people who do want russia and the u. s. to get along, but with gestures like this thread designation,

it seems obvious that there's still a lot of people in washington who want to see russia as an enemy as a threat. and relations between the 2 countries have been on this kind of one step forward to steps back, trend. and as long as that's the thing, relations probably won't get any better, especially with the administration repeatedly coming up with descriptions and absurd reasons why russia is the bad guy. dmitri, thanks for taking us throughout ortiz. dimitri polk will the move we've just been speaking, but also follows russia decision to put the u. s. on its list of on friendly countries along with the check republic, former us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter, so he's the stable. i'm predictable relations with russia that washington keeps talking about. doesn't equal friendship. it clearly is a political move because russia is not this dangerous, is afghans dance, syria, and another nations that are engaged in ongoing conflicts? i believe it's more of

a retaliatory measure taken in response to russia listing the united states as, as an enemy. the lighthouse is very careful with his words. predictable and stable does not mean friendly. under no circumstances, does it mean friendly, means predictable and stable? united states has painted russia as, as an adversary, not as a friend, but what it wants to ensure is that, like perhaps during the cold war era where the united states and the soviet union were not friendly, were adversarial. there was a predictability and the stability and the relationship that allowed, you know, adversarial feelings and emotions not to spin out of control into actual conflict. so the, the goal here is to have the united states and russia talk so that there's predictability so that there isn't going to be a war. so that's, there's stability, so there isn't going to be an attendant consequences. this doesn't mean where

friends, where not united states has made it clear. it is not friendly with russia. it says in the future, it would like to be, but it's taking no steps in that direction. and you know, that's just the unfortunate reality of the times. we live in now, britain's maximum security belmore, the prison, so quite the crowd today. a number of m. p. 's join supporters of julian assange for a protest outside the facility where the wiki school funder is currently being held . the politicians did in the cross party letter to the prison in which they called bell morse's refusal to allow, in meeting with us on the protest comes after the main witness in the u. s. case against the sounds reportedly admitted giving was testimony in exchange for immunity. from prosecution we heard from the former leader of the u. k. l position german corbin, who was among those of the protest. i visited many prisons and many prisoners over

all the years. i've been a member of parliament and is perfectly normal. the members of parliament granted with due process of facility over we now want a group of us to be able to talk to julian, probably by video link in order. we can discuss his case and help to form our own opinions and encourage other members of parliament understand their role in what i hope will be a very strong campaign to prevent his extradition away from this country. julian spent years in ecuador, and embassy was then taken out of your embassy and is now in a maximum security prison. the case went to court, the court refused to request for extradition. therefore, at that point, the case of n doing should have done. but instead, the united states is give notice that it intends to appeal against this extradition and seek to take it back to the court of appeal and eventually presumed to supreme court. which would mean that he could be extra to the usa, where he would trace

a minimum prison incentive of a 175 years. we have appealed to preston biden. to not go ahead with this appeal to drop the case so that julian can be free and what was done today here at this maximum security prison in se, london belmont is to ask 2 questions. one is the government. we consider her decision to refuse a private meeting of members apartments on a legal basis for julian massage. and also to make the point that judy is somebody that stood up for the truth around the world has helped us understand what happening. and in so many other places around the world where the u. s. military on such terrible things and we think he is a journalist of distinction. i've often spoken. c about german. 2 in egypt, in mexico and indonesia, in many other places. but suddenly it'll lead julian,

as far as i don't know, he has spoken the truth about what has happened around the world to another big story of the day. the biggest ever a court case against pharmaceutical giants is underway in the us. drug maker stand accused of aggravating the countries opioid crisis. our plan is to lay out all of the bad conduct that led to be good for them and that's, that's number one. certainly, we want to establish, we want the jury to hear it and we want the jury to, to answer the question. this was a public nuisance. they caused riffing terrific damages to our community. that's what we want from this. from this dr. one form a joint will be at the trial, the johnson and johnson hills agreed, a $230000000.00 out of court settlement with new york. as part of the deal, it will settle related claims over the next 9 years and stop selling opioids in

america. the company insists though that is not on admission of wrong doing as it hasn't sold opioids since 2015. now, the crisis not being blamed on johnson and johnson on the other drug makers who will stand trial has caused huge suffering in the country. it's killed almost half a 1000000 people, j and j is accused of over prescribing drugs and causing addiction. something that the country the company denies it said it distributed only the required amongst the people with medical issues that has been their stance for a long time. look, j enough to head to an organization that helps drug addicts recover. he believes compensation for victims should be much higher. this should be a much bigger compensation, a half a 1000000 americans, that of perished remiss and many more families that have been destroyed by this addiction,

which is at an epidemic level and continues to increase both in not only and over those depths, but in the spread of the contagion throughout the society. so is $230000000.00 adequate? absolutely not. a country and crisis violence once again, a ropes on the streets of columbia, the national strike, that's growing the proof nation to a whole reaches. it's to mark week 3 and much more few after the short break. ah ah ah with me

ah ah, i use as we do at the end of almost every quarter, we got to like look back, look forward. where are we in all this crazy world we live in the moon. ah, we start back in asia,

we're indonesia is on the verge of a coven catastrophe. that's according to the red cross infection rates. they are skyrocketing with more than 60000 new cases reported in the past 3 days. the local health system is said to be a breaking point me the because we are all tired, but there's nothing we can do about it. this is our duty and we have to do our job . my mother get sick about 2 days ago. they brought her to a hospital after her condition got worse. last night condition worse and,

and she passed away. the me tricky president has launched the construction of a controversial and you can now in this done both, it will run west of the city and it's expected to be completed within half a dozen years president or it wasn't said the canal will be a source of pride for the turkish people, but the projects raising concerns over its environmental and economic cost. the price tag is one issue. it's estimated at $15000000000.00. it will link the black sea on the sea of marbra. 6 bridges in old will spend the 45 kilometer long roots on the project designed to ease traffic and reduce the risk of accidents in the bus for a straight, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. but critics have questioned whether turkey will apply the montreaux convention to the can. now, i signed in 1936,

that international agreement regulates vestal trans. it's through the phosphorus, darden nell's straits now. it guarantees free passage for civilian vessels and restrict naval ships. not belonging to block c states the article and said he isn't planning to quit the treaty, but won't hesitate to review any agreements to get a better deal for turkey in the future. middle east alyssa morrow, cough he's concerned by and chris current lack of cooperation with its key partners in the region. the worrying thing is that all the obvious thing, so to speak is that turkey is not doing this in full cooperation with the main stakeholder in and in the whole operation which is fresher. and this is the worrying thing. could be the case that turkey is doing this in order to put pressure its own pressure on russia in order to gain some leverage. but if this

indeed proves to be you know, and need to oriented operation whereby southern v natal ships say we're, we're not bound by the mantra agreement anymore. and we can go into the black sea as much as we can. and we don't have to leave up to 21 days. then, you know, would that may crush, i behave different tree in a more and as a serial or defensive way towards turkey, which could lead to some confrontation here or there. the european environment bureau has branded the use new green law a force. the legislation obliges the block to become a net 0 emissions economy by 2050 barbara marianna. from the bureau. explain why the target she believes we met to 5, because the real mission will actually only 52.8. because members say,

can you said they don't want to have a common you're trying to target finding kind of trying to august. then you also resist the and, and you sort of provision setting a deadline for subsidies. so last several elements. if one really, you know where we start to go with the volume into scuse for feed hales as land law climate change rule. the 27 nations in the book must collectively slash greenhouse gas emission by 55 percent by 20 good teeth compared to the levels in the 1990s, i'm quite 2015 to become a net 0 emissions economy. now the deal was approved by all expect guerria, which i'm saying saying the final compromise did not reflect its national position . but while everyone else is totally on board, that doesn't mean that they are all happy about it. the common dog is not binding.

a national level is a big is a big obstacle and we are hearing some of our members saying that, oh but it's in check with people saying it climb and you're trying to use where you will not for us. so we don't have to bother. so you know, this is exactly the kind of dynamics which will not take us to climate neutrality because there is a sort of, you know, a routine responsibility on others. sure. nurse without really looking into how to be club when i've, when all the phones that are available today, also putting a big block off in the blocks green credentials is the recent approval of the new common agriculture policy until 2027. critics say that that puts 2 environmentally

unfriendly fingers off the efforts to find the climate crisis. they say 3 quarters of the budget for intensive farming practices, which account for around to 15 percent of all europe's emissions. this agreement, full sure to the green deal ambition and the transformation and viewing station of e u. agriculture policy. that farmers by diversity and the climate so badly need the c a p was supposed to be the big building block of the green deal. what remains the series of empty slogans with big agribusiness as usual, or in many cases, a deterioration of the status quo. also a sense of things y'all were back in 2015. the parish agreement was seen as a breakthrough on global climate action. but since then, the promise is laid out in the treaty have fallen by the wayside. the host nation of that summit from found guilty by cool to failing to meet its commitment to could but greenhouse gas emissions. leading many to question whether this new, you know,

will actually be worth anything more than the paper. it's been written on charlotte, even sky r t. paris protesters on the streets of the colombian capital, have once again flushed with police. it's the latest skirmish during a national strike that's not drugged on for 2 months. demonstrators helping demanding an end to police repression and a written branch reform of social policies. the news the news news several $1000000000.00 miss julius jim on students to start of a wave of social protests that have swept across columbia. hundreds of people took

to the streets with a long list of demands from the country's government cooling for a better life for everyone that much has been achieved. controversial health care reforms was crept at government minister, the head of the foreign ministry, as well as the chief of police all resigned. so why today 2 months later, people are still in the streets, which i think that it's necessary to continue resistance. despite the fact that the strike committee held negotiations with the government, the government has refused to speak with the people on the street. i know that there is again, well, the keeper we're here because in addition to that, but you need to, to express our protest. these actions allow us to help people who live on the street and are not able to get an indication on maria. taking one's in the one with us, we will sound the streets because we do not have a good enough livelihood and do not have enough help from the government. we won't allow our.