because that's how we can't trust the police. we can't trust the government. we can't trust anyone except ourselves to protect ourselves in the highest court in texas rules. facebook is liable for a quote knowingly benefiting from sex traffickers. it comes several victims to the company for failing to protect them from abusers fleming. they were forced into prostitution, volley of and then also i had on the program, the u. s. department issues, a warning telling americans not to travel to russia, placing the country in the same risk list of the jealous them, syria and uganda, for reasons including supported terrorists and a group of british m. p. 's 100 cross party letter to belmore, the prison in which they demand the ride to visit wicking leaks, co founder juliana phones. we hear from the former leader of the opposition,

who was among those picking parts. i've often spoken about jonathan in egypt and mexico and indonesia, in many other places. but suddenly, all the different julian colleges ah, around the clock across the world. this is the news our, an rti, neil. and you're welcome to the program or top story and ground breaking decision. the highest court in texas has rule that facebook can be held liable for knowingly benefiting from sex traffickers. it means the world biggest social network will find it harder to take refuge under a law that sees platforms are not responsible for content posted by users. dancer. several victims recently sued facebook for feeling to protect them from abusers who

use the site to force them into prostitution. a teenagers taking through all our for us, or senior correspondent morocco thief. one of the girls suing facebook was 14, when a man of about 30 message to julie methodically, he groomed her psychologically conditioned her for 2 years later, she would find herself in a motel room being raped by strangers or another girl, or $214.00, the predator. groomed her advertise on instagram traffic is used instagram to arrange dates. as a result, plaintiff was raped numerous times for the plaintiff rescue from the trafficking scheme. traffic continued to use her profile to attempt the entrap of the miners in the same manner plain to some of the reports of these activities. facebook, which never responded. the trio now suing facebook are an anomaly. many boys and girls. they never speak out because that fear,

because of aberice meant 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 occurred 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,

pulling into platforms accountable for the words or actions that they use is one thing, and the federal precedent uniform it, it states that section 230 does not allow it's holding internet platforms accountable for the old 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 of horns and not allowed on facebook will 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 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 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's platforms, which facebook ads and does approve and makes money on that go the argument that facebook is complicit in under age sex trafficking, se louis representing the victims and the chords 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 lived on websites that knowingly or intentionally participate in the evil of online human trafficking. if the case succeed, 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. the 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 scrutiny because they have this powerful censorship apparatus as our play around 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 offensive when. meanwhile, those 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 rope and 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 the

us state department has issued a special trouble alert warning. it citizens not to head to russia under any circumstances. it's 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. o u. s. government personnel should carefully consider their need to travel to russia. basically what the state department has done. it's declared russia level for threat basically, meaning code read the highest threat level. do not travel to this country to be fair though. several countries have recently received this bump up to threat level for including many in europe. but many of most of those countries received that level due to current covered 19 concerns. russia, on the other hand,

received the threat level due to believe it or not, terrorism and potential abuse by government officials. and apparently, according to the state department, terrorists are literally right around every corner here in russia. terrorist groups, trans national and local terrorists organizations and individuals inspired by extremist ideology. continuing plotting possible attacks in russia. terrorists may attack with little or no warning targets in tories locations, transportation, hobbs, 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. now, these statements, for many people who have been to rush or especially live in russia, these statements are just ridiculous and absurd, nothing to do with reality. in everyday life, in russia,

although the state department does specify the caucus region and places like change, the sign is more inclined to terrorism and kidnappings. but the way the statement has been worded and kind of applies to the country as a whole. and just for context, this kind of implies that the state department is traveling to russia as dangerous as travelling to countries like a gas stance syrian libya literal war zone. i think if i had read this before coming here, i might no stay for 15 years. dmitri, to be honest, it's, it's scary stuff and terror, the terror threat. russia is not exactly the only country affected by that isn't. obviously not, of course, terrorism does happen in russia, but kind of rarely, i mean, yes, we saw the situation cause over a month ago. but more often than not, these stories about the headings, knife attack settings, killings. they're not coming most of the time from russia. they're coming from countries like the u. s. the u. k. in germany, france. yet somehow,

none of these countries have been designated as level for threats. apparently, according to the state department of the mythical threat. terrorists and russia is far greater than everything that's been happening in europe over the past few years . here's just a few examples of open to terrorism investigation after a police employee was stamped 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 france, becky, and the 1st 2 were connected to the republication and friends of cartoons news tonight about the deadly terror attack outside of paris. perhaps we should point out that it's not that long ago that we're hearing it by term stable, unpredictable relations to bite administration saying that's what they wanted with and from russia. how does that fit with these developments? well, basically it just flies in the face of everything. the,

by the ministration has been saying the stuff we heard during the bite and put in some it. but it's not exactly surprising. sure. there's a lot of talk by the white and ministration 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, 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're not looking to escalate, we would prefer to have a more stable, more predictable relationship. president put, 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 2 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 poke, while the news also follows russia's decision to put the u. s. on the list of unfriendly countries, along with the check republic, former us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter, so he's stable, unpredictable relations with russia at washington. keep talking about doesn't equal friendship. well, clearly it's a political move because russia is not this dangerous. is afghan, stan, 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 this words. predictable and stable . does not mean friendly, under no circumstance, it doesn't 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 is predictability so that there isn't going to be a war. so that's there's stability,

so there isn't going to be attending 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 britain's maximum security belmore prison saw quite the cry today, tuesday, the number of m. p. 's join supporters of julian, the sons for a protest outside the facility where the wiki makes co founder is currently being held. the politicians handed in a cross party letter to the prison in which they called died bell morse's refusal to allow a meeting with. the protest comes out to the main witness in the u. s. case against the sons reportedly admitted giving false testimony in a strange for unity 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. 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 campaigns, prevention extradition away from this country. julian, years in ecuador, and embassy was then taken out. your embassy is now in a maximum security prison. the case went to court. the court refused the request for extradition. therefore, at that point, the case of any 4 should have done, but instead, the united states has give notice that he 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 sentence of a 175 years. we have appealed to president biden, to not go ahead with this appeal to drop the case. julian can be free and what was done today here. at this maximum security prison in london, bell marsh is to ask 2 questions. one is the government. we consider her decision to refuse a private member's apartments on a legal basis for julia massage. and also to make the point that judy is somebody that stood up for the truth to around the world has helped us understand what's happening. and in so many other places around the world where the u. s. military on such terrible things and we, he is a journalist of distinction often says journal. 2 in egypt and mexico and indonesia

in many other places. but suddenly judy and as far as he has. 7 spoken the truth about what has happened around the world. moving on, the biggest ever a court case against pharmaceutical giants is underway in the us drug makers on the accused of aggravating the countries opioid crisis. our plan is to lay out all of the bad conduct that lead to the oh, good for them and that's, that's number one. certainly we want to establish we want the jury to hear it. we want the jury to answer the question. this was a public nuisance. they caused riffing horrific damages to our community. that's what we want from this from this trial. one farmer giant won't be at the trial though. johnson and johnson has 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 isn't admission of wrong doing that house and sold opioid since 2015. now, the opioid crisis that's being blamed on johnson and johnson on the other drug makers who will stand trial that's 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 company denies it sees that distributed only the required minds to people with medical issues. look, j nestor heads 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 deaths, 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 run the nation to a whole reaches. it's a 2 month mark story and more to the spring the ah ah ah

ah, ah. the 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?

the 21 minutes past the our welcome back and indonesia is on the verge of a coven. catastrophe. about is, according to the red cross infection rates, they are skyrocketing with more than 60000 new case reported in the past 3 days. the local health system is said to be at breaking point the because we're all tired, but there's nothing we can do about it. this is our duty and we have to do our duty . the my mother got 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 turkeys president has launched the construction of a controversial when you can. now, in the stun bowl, it will run the west of the city and is expected to be completed within half a dozen years. president heard one said the canal will be a source of pride for the turkish people. but the projects raising concerns over its environmental and economic costs. the price tag is estimated from $15000000000.00, it will link the black sea. the sea of mara, 6 bridges in old will span the 45 kilometer long route. the project designed to ease traffic and reduce the risk of accidents in the boss for straight one of the

world's busiest shipping lanes. but critics have questioned whether turkey will apply the montreux convention to the canal. let's go through that signed in 1936. the international agreement regulates vessel trans. it's through the foster se darden illustrates. it guarantees free passions for civilian vessels. unrestricted naval ships not belonging to block c state's 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 and tomorrow camp is concerned by on chris current. lack of cooperation on this with its key regional partners. the worrying thing is that 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 suddenly nature 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 behave different tree in a more and sort of serial or defensive way towards turkey. which could lead to some confrontation here. or there. you know the story to bring you to a strike from the continent, the european environment. so bureau has brought the used new green law farce. the legislation obliges the block to become a net 0 emissions economy by 2050 barbara marianna from the e. b. explain why the target she believes will be meant to fast because the real

mission will actually only $52.00. because members say, can you said they don't want to have a common neutrality 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 look at where we start to go with the human scuse for being hailed as land law, climate change rule, the $27.00 nations in the book must collectively slash greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030 compared to the levels in the 1990s, quite 2015 to become a net 0 emissions economy. now the deal was approved by all expect full guerria, which abstain 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 who dog is not buying a national level is a big is a big obstacle. and we are hearing some of our members seen this in check with people saying that. com 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, to say, putting the responsibility on out there is sure nurse without really looking into how to be quite nice when all the phones that are available today, also putting a big black film the blocks green credentials is the recent approval of the new

common agriculture policy until 2027. the critics say that that puts 2 environmentally unfriendly fingers off the efforts to find the climate course. if they say 3 quarters of the budget will go to intensive farming practices, which account for around 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 a series of empty slogans with big agribusiness as usual, or in many cases, a deterioration of the status quo. there's 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

about summit from, from beauty 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 power a spring you to last in america, where protesters on the streets of the colombian capital of once again with the lease. yes, the latest skirmish during a national strike. that's not dr. don't for some to demonstrate or some been demanding an end to police repression and a router branch reform of social policies. the news the lynn goldsmith is jealous. i do see him

on to start on the wave of social protest have swept across columbia. hundreds of people to the streets with a long list of demand from the country's government cooling for a better life for everyone that much has been achieved. controversial health care reforms was prep, the 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. we thought this might joint committee help negotiate with the government. the government has refused to speak with the people on the street. you know that there was a game keeper care that has an addition to that, but you need to press all projects for multiple action. allow us to help people who live on the street and returns and are not able to get an education. but maria was

in the streets because we do not have a good enough livelihood, love, and do not have enough help from the government. or we want to allow ourselves to continue to be robbed in such a shameless way discreetly. now, we continue to fight because our country needs a science community. it also needs realty in order to achieve solar. and if i call it and make our country a better place, more protests in columbia begin early this morning. in the city of medicine, a few hours ago, there was reported the forceful intervention by doing an engine to this past protest. there was also information about several mass demonstrations in some areas of the city, like you can see here in the north, the capital just a few days ago was here that hundreds of people took to the streets. no, the situation has changed. in particular, due to the restrictions in person and in order to protect the population and get your own of ours. be on the on the 20th of july bentz independent.