for different stories behind the bullets, a phase looks accused of spreading hayes and weakening democracy by whistler. the revelations at a u. s. senate hearing some of this stuff called trust. and just a few years ago when social media platforms were helpful, bring about the arab spring. europe energy crisis deeper with easily bearing the brunt. recall gas prices have led to many, unable to pay the bills or jeremy. i'm really shocked. i'm aware of what is going on, and i have to say we are ob, such an absolute shame the italian state, instead of protecting its citizens, does exactly the opposite. it is raised the tariffs of goods such as electricity and guess what? a shame and history in the making

a rush in the film per arise of the international space station to make the 1st feature length film in space with this guy. this unprecedented achievement with russian calls went on as far as i know that there were motivated, they have no choice except to successfully handle wide open space. that professional uses to shoot to move the ah ah, this is been use and i'll see international is me. you nash, paula, thanks for joining us. weakening democracy by spreading hatred and division. those are the charges leveled at facebook by a whistleblower. the former employee has been testifying before a u. s. senate hearing after a leaking documents about how the fund operates. hey,

spoke exploited teams. do you think that teams are profitable for their company? i would assume so those dangerous algorithms that they admit are picking up the the stream sentence, the division, their product. it is often destructive facebook's products, harm children, stoked to vision and weak in our democracy. the damage to self interest and self worth of inflicted by facebook to day will haunt a generation. it is pulling families apart. and in places like ethiopia, it's literally fanning ethnic violence. and it's a very different picture from just a few years ago when platforms like facebook and twitter were being loaded for bring democracy to the our world during the abs. frank, social media play a role. social media is much broader than sending a $144.00 characters or twitter for updating your status. post on facebook. those are useful. you're giving facebook a lot of credit for this or yeah,

for sure. i want to meet mark zuckerberg, one day, and thank him actually, indeed, social media did have some very pronounced impacts on the arab spring. and earlier we discussed the change of opinion towards facebook with anti contributor nico house. it does seem a little bit peculiar that in 2011 with countries like tenicia libby and egypt, facebook was not only celebrated for put like for helping spread the news about the protests. but the algorithm seemed to be for perpetuating the protests and propelling them for that millions of people were able to react and noticed what was going on. now, interestingly enough, about 3 of those countries to protest there actually benefited united states interests. so what it seems like is on the like, now that the script has been flipped 10 years later. censorship actually benefits the united states. so i guess you could say it's pro democracy, i guess if you want to call facebook, you know, a democratic institution, i guess you could call it that because the government seems to be on the side of

censorship. facebook as readily pushes the ship, isn't it very different based these days what it was years ago does less freedom of conversation, freedom of exchange, freedom of discourse. ah, there seems to be no consistent application of rules or principles or guidelines on any of these platforms. and i would say that at least on the surface now, it looks like the government, at least her opinions have much more influence. i mean, just a couple of weeks ago, jim pa sack, he was actually saying that it was time to come down harder on facebook and regulate them more fast for this whistleblower who's actually represented by a firm that the sac he actually worked for. or at a senior adviser, not even, not even a year ago is now frankly sitting in front of the senate. after going on 60 minutes, i'm getting a lot of air time. so i would say at the bare minimum, what it looks like is there's a lot of coordination going on behind the scenes in one way or another that everybody seems to be involved in, except for the people who are most afflicted by which i would say is the average

working class individual and maybe potentially activists organizing protesters a do you think you ask of an festival has the, has it the powers at its disposal to, to limit to rain in facebook. i think the thing that they need to do the rain facebook in is to hold them to the standards of a publisher. ah. whereas enable escaping a lot of accountability for the for the how they selectively apply their rules. i like their editorial list on what date, but the federal government hadn't done anything about it. now on the other side of that fence, they do have the capability, the force in the sensor more to what it does seem like they've had to. they fit every time. one of these is, this is happen. facebook seems to sensor more on their own. so even though they have the power, they have an exercise it. and they've been able to get face with the kind of do what they want more and more without ever having to hold them accountable. and in legal matter and thrive. the hearing u. s. has, has have been clear that congress must make keys of more regulation against

facebook and other social media platforms. if they won't, and, and a big tech won't, that congress has to intervene. how urgent it is for congress to act against powerful tech companies. we should consider narrowing this sweeping immunity when platforms algorithms amplified illegal conduct unless not cross line t. a julio riviera editorial director for reactionary times dot com. and who did farewell welcome to aunt c. nice to see. so janet sancho, the white house press secretary said self regulation of companies like facebook isn't working. does she have a point? is this more bought point scoring by the current us administration? no, she does in a sense have a point. i think of some of the more concerning things as the studies that were, you know, done by facebook internally regarding the negative effects on young people,

particularly young women are body image issues. it's probably can contributing to the rise of our little mental health issues, potentially even to the rise in our suicide rates amongst the young on, you know, i think the instagram in particular is damaging in that way. and i think the fact that you know, the us, you see, actually on, you know, all frances halligan asking for, you know, a little bit more intervention from the s t c and filing actual complaints with them. given the fact that they've all taken this very, very important internal investigative information and kind of buried it on, you know, i think that's a matter that's important to the public. given the economic force of that a public company like facebook actually wields on in regards to the f, t c. and of the fair federal trade commission's case. and they, they may or may not be able to establish the fact that facebook is actually running

on monopoly on they're trying to establish that through market share in the, in the size of facebook's market share. i don't not necessarily know that they'll be able to do that on just to kind of make a point all regarding the issue of our facebook's actual status. they did change their terms and conditions of back on october. first, we actually did a panel on this very network back in december, are talking about how there were algorithmic changes. their facebook had implemented in advance of the 2020 election in november. and the reason that they were able to do that and kind of ski escape on, you know, any sort of scrutiny for is the fact that they did actually change their terms and conditions and, and effectively kind of have been a publisher a since october of last year, so the cda to 30 issues which are prevalent and, you know, obviously people talked about that a lot guards at twitter, censoring the hunter biden's story from the new york post. it's not quite as applicable to facebook. and facebook was once noted for promoting freedom of speech

and democracy, but things seem to have changed in recent years with talk of more regulation. i went to the thing, the turning point was to remember and you know, i, i think honestly, i think that there's been a lot of complaints because of the political nature of facebook. how it's been so politicized. and, and the way that they've attacked opposing views. you know, basically it's the group thought of, you know, a very small group of elite and silicon valley that basically dictate the political positions that are allowed to become prevalent on facebook. you know, and there's a lot of people, i think it's unfortunate cuz there's a lot of people who are in media, political media, people who are considered thought leaders, people who built careers off of social media. and actually were a lot of the people that they've built up facebook into the economic power house that it is by purchasing ads and whatnot. i mean, i can just give you an example, you know, a reactionary times our facebook page, you know,

we've invested all over the year, thousands on, you know, into, into facebook ads. and now they won't even allow any of they won't even allow us to boost any post, you know, in the same goes to you know, you tube the monetizing people. it seems like you know, that, that little small group of silicon valley elite are trying to control what's acceptable political speech, i think on our social media. and i think that that's kind of where the turning point. and i think that's why you're starting to have even liberals that you know, or i have probably benefited more than anything else because of the nature of the censorship on facebook. even they're speaking out about it because it has gotten to the point with billions of users and people spending hours a day on the platform. it has gotten to the point where facebook has perhaps become a little too powerful for their comfort level said, do you say this push for more regulation by congress is about cracking down and sadden opinions like that is opposing the current administration. for example. it

could be, and i think that that's the danger of it, because let's say, you know, right now you're have some somewhat of a bipartisan push for people to regulate for the government rather to regulate on facebook. but i think you've got the wrong administration kind of in charge to kind of put our trust into doing that, given the authoritarian nature of the modern democrat. you know, i think if we had a little bit more balance in congress, if maybe we had an upper chamber or controlled by one party in the lower chamber, controlled by another party and maybe more of a moderate in the white house. it probably may be a good idea. ultimately, i look at it like, you know, facebook is an opt in proper position. so i mean, if you don't want to be on it, if you don't want to be influenced on it, it's just as easy as, as logging out of it and then it won't have that influence. but what i think the, what are the more powerful things that i think that hobbins are frances, how get brought up. and her testimony is of her desire to see the minimum age for

social media platforms kind of universally, become 17 as opposed to 13. i think at the very least that could help with some of the issues that we're seeing with self esteem and body image issues and a lot of the other things that are affecting particularly young women. all right, tad honey, are riviera editorial director for reassuring times dot com. julio. thank you very much indeed for sharing these the best. thanks. thank you so much. julia. natural gas prices are still edging out in europe after hating an o time record. it's amazed. one of the west effect it with gas accounting for more than half of the countries of residential energy consumption. people have been hit by sewing bells, and fear is just the beginning. are determined, i am really shocked, i'm aware of what is going on, and i have to say we are upset, an absolute shame the italian state, instead of protecting its citizens, does exactly the opposite. instead of saving the citizens already condemned by the

coven in the pandemic. despite this general economic crisis, it has raised the tariffs of goods such as electricity and gas. what a shame! the increase in electricity, gas, and petrol is 40 percent. i would say it is too much. many people have lost their jobs. many people have been penalized by the pandemic will have great difficulties . it will not be easy. what a drama about the future i see is quite bleak, negative. i would say that if things do not improve, there is a real risk of a social revolt. people are tired. if they can't even pay these bills, things will get worse and worse, there are basic goods. you can't pay for gas or electricity that much. i fear that very bad things could happen. people could become violent with a tally, the wells 12th largest consume of gas importing almost 91 percent of all. it eases the governance won't. consumers can be hate hot in that pocket. and the prime minister has announced 3000000000 year

a worth of subsidies to keep bills down this winter. however, experts warn it won't be enough, and many locals won't far more drastic action. a grill over. i bet you what i meant, or the government should increase subsidies for the people. i mean, it should help people who has no money over that. it should make a policy not to raise these rates, but i know it's too late. now. this was the very difficult situation where we only have one salary and we will have to make many financial sacrifices. it will not be easy. we are very worried. we will have to give up little things that maybe we did before, like going out for dinner and some holidays and some gaps. we'll have to give it up to them to pay for these increases. it's not fair, but unfortunately we can't do anything, alvarado. and another country heat hard by soaring gas prices, as poland, which early refused to prolong his gas supply contract with russia. they polish government hopes to cover his needs with gas imports from no way and as well as liquefied natural gas appliance from cancer and the u. s, in the meantime,

polls are having to deal with a steadily rise in their bills on equal frost bichon. but this is the 2nd increase this year and a significant one. people on average or lower income will truly fail it. i feel angry because there are more increases to come with rates to grow up in january and in spring, the lower gas price is what hunger is prime minister did looks like solution or he just signed along sunday with gas prom audio signing with rushes. gastorm is beneficial compared with the deal way in poland. half of the u. s. for shale gas on russian gas is compared to the stable in supply more abundant and cheaper. we don't have a plan to make a deal with gas problems, so prices will remain high. it's about political move at the moment. we lack energy security. enough in use. hundreds of thousands of children have been abused by catholic clergyman in france since the 1950s. that's the claim of report released to day by an independent commission and describes a culture of quote, cruel indifference within the charge. say what was a systemic problem. this report rocking the foundations of the catholic church

here in france. this is just the latest scandal to hit the church world wide, but showing the depths of depravity of those who were in positions of authority and positions of trust. let's have a look at some of the main points now in that report some 3000 p to files uncovered, acting within the french church since 1950. and that is said to be a minimum estimate, some $330000.00 children who are abused by those who are affiliated with the church includes priests and the clergy. 80 percent of the victims were boys between the ages of $10.00 to $13.00. the head of the commission of that independent report said that the church was to blame for not doing enough sheesh good deep these until the 2 thousands there was a profound and even grew indifference towards the victims. they were not believed,

not heard. the church did not know how to see or hear. they did not pick up on signals or take the rigorous measures which were necessary. the institutions responsibility has to be recognized. and shaw maurice obey warned that the problems had not yet being overcome it. full. should he back keel? we must get rid of the idea that sexual violence in the catholic church has been completely eradicated. that the problem is behind us. the problem remains. so this report that lines 45 recommendations. this includes listening to victims and also a psychological assessment report of those who wish to join the church in the feature as well as looking at the governance of the church itself. as that report was being released, some of the heads of victims associations describe how they were feeling a little fit. i know you've been through hell. you have explored the darkest and most object state the man sometimes creates in his i'm the president of the

conference of bishop. so france reacted to that report in the moment after it was revealed, he said the time from beginning to the time for naivety was over and he described the report as being overwhelming. he asked for forgiveness for the church, for what had happened to these hundreds of thousands of children on social media. there has been angry reaction to that report with many saying that the time had come for reckoning within the church. this organization, the catholic church, must be dissolved and bad. no other association company structure would not be dissolved, dismantled after such crimes, $330000.00 victims in churches. they should be dissolved chemical castration for all priests to take vows of chastity. there has been a long list of scandals involving the catholic church now for the last 20 or 2 years or more. we've had scandals in places like australia in australia, in the us,

in germany and now he's in problems. but no matter how many times we get reports that are exposing what happened for decades, what was known by senior members of the church. when you see the sheer scale of what happened to people, the numbers and how they were abused. people are still extremely shocked. phila had for you this hour, bolstering is barricades on line. the british government is looking to spend begun, and you saw the warfare center, but will it prove value for money, for taxpayers faster and more after the reich. ah, i'm in the seat on the internet. the allows old the problems and much was to invite everybody's lloyd. that wasn't

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ah, this is ancy international. welcome back. now bringing new meaning to the times star studded cost, a russian film crew has a doctor at the international space station. they're hoping to, craig, the fast ever feature length movie shall entirely in space. they saw you spacecraft, crew members look at took that 1st step on board. the i says, ella, today elsie's donna quarter can tell us one well the say use m. s 19 just successfully docked at the international space station after blasting off from the bike and or cosmo jerome in kaz exten early on tuesday. now, as you can see on your screen, this is the docking procedure taking place. usually it's done by an automatic docking system. but this time, the commander of the flight and the actress on board took manual control to complete the procedure for part of a film that they're, that they're filming. now before the launch of the rocket,

we heard from the commander at a press conference. he talked a little bit about what it's going to take to accommodate these new crew members about aboard the international space station. better brooklyn got up with the spacecraft, has been reconfigured for it to be managed without an on board engineer. but i think that as soon as we get to the space station, a lot will change there because we've got so much vital equipment for shooting the movie. a lot of photo video equipment, lights, et cetera. the international space station will be transformed significantly. the russian unit will turn into a foam set for these 2 weeks. now there is a unique thing about this specific space flight. actually, the russian film director clim chapin co and russian actress uli a parasitic are tagging along they're going to spend a 12 days aboard the international space station where they're going to be filming parts for a fictional space drama movie called the challenge. and this is actually going to be the 1st professional team of movie makers that will be filming in space. now. several cosmo knots on board. actually in these scenes,

i wanted to say that paris sealed will be playing a surgeon that was sent to the international space station to actually save the life of a cosmonaut. and several of the cars not already on board, the i ss, are actually playing rolls in this movie, like oleg novit sky, who actually sent his greetings over twitter right after watching the launch from space. now the movie itself is even set to make history as the 1st feature film filmed in space. this is something that the russian team has been locked in a literal space race to accomplish for a while. now, with the american actor, tom cruz and the director, doug lehman. so i, this is certainly a, some interesting news coming out of biking or, and the international space station and of discount that unique as face mission with another russian cosmonaut andre bar. a sank. i wish i had his opinion on the case as yet. oh, look at my will. this is the 1st experience of the space. white had been just one cousin that specialist on to non professionals,

the screw members from this perspective, this white as the 1st of men is similar once coming in the future. on the 1st challenge, the move the crew members will come across some spaces, adapting to 0 gravity. something they started to experience right up to the so you space grub detached from the rocket. carry a yes. this spirit usually last few days and give some complications on the ever they life of an astronaut. because one experiences, so cold motion sickness and the 2nd unpleasant nuisance is that the blood stream is redistributed around the body, which means the blot flows from your feet to the hat and that feels like you're standing upside down. these 2 factors will bring some difficulties, sir. yes, they're not professionals, but they took short term training for space flight members. in the spot of the training they were taught to take care of themselves in space. how to warm up food, put on the space suit, you use a restroom and so full. as far as i know that there were motivated, they have no choice except to successfully handle life and space,

and that professional duties to shoot the movie meter in the wake of brags at salmon, poland a wondering whether they should follow the you case example and had for the exit. well, so currently looks in a series of disputes with the e. our here of correspondent, p to honor that picks have this die. politicians from the ruling law and justice party in poland are talking about the country's future inside the european union. some even suggesting the potential of a polk set time for an honest assessment, whether the british path is better for poland, poland, for the german occupies in the 2nd world war. it fought the soviet occupiers. we will also fight the brussels occupies with warsaw and brussels bumping heads over rule of law in poland. the polish constitutional court may well be set this week to rule that it's domestic law, supersedes that of the european union. the problem for the firebrands and polish

prime minister mateusz moreover skis party is that while saber rattling about the country's willingness to remain in the you may send out the message they want. it doesn't strike a popular court with the polish people. almost 90 percent of those polled. busy said that they are in favor of you. membership supports risen steadily over the last 18 years. poland has the lowest levels of unemployment in the e u. it's the 3rd most attractive member state for outside investment and inside the block it's an important supplier to others. here's what people have to tell our c. it's better if we stay in the european union. bullen does one of the most subsidized countries in the e u. so by making our contribution to the ear budget and what we can get out of it, as well as receiving funding for various projects, this is a better option for us. we gain more than we lose. if the european leave presses for european integration and a creation of a united states of europe,

we should think carefully about that because the policy of some french or german governments. but also the european commission towards poland is harmful to us and cause his losses for us. we must be ready to implement our own pulled exit plan. if such a departure would be necessary for us. nobody wants to leave the european union. if someone says they want to leave the you, they probably lost their mind. a lot has changed. our country looks different. thanks to the you. but this union should love us to currently it's been keeping us on the side. it's a bit distasteful opposition. activists don't think there's any real plan to take poland out of the you does own justice bicycle hit the wall if it keeps escalating the dispute with the you. as soon as money's involved ideology takes a backseat and there's plenty of e. u. money already involved. warsaw is the largest beneficiary of the e u. cohesion fund, and it's set to receive 75000000000 euro over the next 6 years. add to that tens of

billions in subsidies and cheap loans and the idea of warsaw quitting the u. club looks less and less likely, all of that is at risk. if poland continues to fight the european union on the rule of law case, warsaw hasn't received its coven aid money yet, while some other member states already spending. there's not may be why the prime minister is putting himself over in a far more diplomatic fashion than some of his m p's on this issue. i think we will be able to clear all doubts without create an unnecessary tash and here, of course, there is no talk of pol exit while. glancing over to the united kingdom, the only country to leave the e u club may provide more of a cautionary tale and been careful what you wish for than any shining example of sunlit uplands. upon leaving the european union, peter oliver r. t. berlin. the british government is preparing to find out

millions of pounds into a new cyber warfare center, capable of attacking states than the u. k. views as hostile with mon. what's known about the plans. his answer is ashanti edwards dashti well as being described to hare buying the government in britain as a once in a generation opportunity and a real game changer and placing brits and back on the map as a global leader, an influence are in terms of cyber security in fact, it's so much of a priority for the government that it's setting aside a whopping finds a 1000000000 pounds to set up this new headquarters for cyber warfare in the united kingdom. many eyebrows, though, raised at that amount of money, particularly during all of this time we've seen in the kind of pandemic, very difficult, a financial past 20 months. not least looking at current affairs to like the fuel shortage here in the u. k as well. so that's a huge amount of money,

but the defense secretary is defending this amount of money on the move in general, saying that the u. k. must be better equipped to defend itself, but also must be in a better position to launch the cyber attacks as well. some foreign states are waging cyber warfare not every single day, and we have a right on to international law and among ourselves to defend ourselves. and one of the way see can do that is to dismantle the tools that i used against you. for example, with the hostile state is using a server to deploy ransomware against you, spyware. using disinformation, you could use offensive side, but to deal with those servers as being on this trajectory for some time. now, in fact, the national fiber force has been in operation. it was established since at least november of 2020 but what we do know is in the past the.