by america, oh no, a t a ah frances, how going to be phased? whistleblower, who details to congress? how the social network is home and young people and stoking division is not being accused of, but that's how much that she has significant ties with democrats. also they sound moscow files account requests to the global chemical weapons which told after the us and question was about the alleged poisoning of criminal critic alex, saying the volley despite the o. p. c. w to refusing to cooperate with russia. with a case, we hear 1st time from russia's envoy to the voting gave us a feeling that something else, all that goals are driving them. it is possible that this whole story is connected

with the escalation of sanctions, the pressure exactly 20 years since you as coalition invaded afghanistan with the country now in meltdown. families are having to result unthinkable matters when your stomach is empty, you can't think about the dark. sorry. so i'm forced to sell a few of my kids to feed others. there's no option lunch with life, or mostly you're watching the news or not see international with me. you national are hello and welcome to the program and facebook whistleblower a's. be accused of bias. it was discovered a sri has ties to the democrats. it comes to as a days after she said, the company was harming children and stoking divisions and impassioned plea to congress for a crime down on the social media trent. but i'm here today because i believe

facebook's products harm children, stoked division and week in our democracy. the company's leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram saver a won't make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical prophets before people. congressional action is needed. they won't solve this crisis without your help. so francis hogan is being represented by co founder whistleblower 8. john tie, who himself is a former official in the obama administration. the other co founder of the organization which health whistleblowers was legal aid aid, mcg zayed. he was a legal representative for alexander at windman. the white house staff who sparked trumps fast impeachment. what small, it turns out, frances, how good has been regularly donating to democrat affiliated organizations all whacking to get more democratic candidates elected throughout the us.

and let's not cross lifetime max blumenthal at the same shape of the gray zone mocks. it's very nice to see you. so with all this new information coming out about a francis, how guns ties to democrats desperate her legitimacy as a whistle as a whistle blow in question. well, not really. i don't think there's anything surprising there that put it relating to her partisan affiliations. that puts her credibility in question. in my view, what's interesting about this is that her testimony dovetails very closely with the democrat censorship agenda. their plan or their desire to heavily sensor social media and to take out their political adversaries, but also their advancement of the national security state's own censorship agenda to target the media of official enemies. to target any media that

contravenes imperial us goals or advances, what's considered misinformation which can be advanced by anyone. francis, how again was pushing that agenda and yes, she is represented by bryson gillette. a public relations firm founded by a former obama aid. it's providing her with strategic communications advice, and that very same aid is a, a advisor to the center for humane technology, which she has worked at in which has been taking on facebook. so she's not as a in actual whistleblower. she is a political operative advancing a cohesive agenda around by looks like it's not just the democrat of the have taken a stand against facebook. and the whole of congress seems to have taken a unified stance. not, doesn't this testimony benefited the republican caused a i think of, you know, it could,

it can benefit multiple causes. you could see it benefiting the religious. right. that doesn't like the kind of semi pornographic content on instagram and the way it degrades women of feminist could get behind it. but behind it all is a much more insidious agenda that how going outline she has explicitly called for bass, beefing up facebook's counter espionage team to take on official enemies. she named me and mar ethiopia, which is a new target of u. s. empire as well as iran and china. she did not refer to facebook working with any u. s. allies to carry out malicious activities. and that counter espionage unit is actually part of a facebook's threat intelligence division led by ben nimmo, who has been prolific in whipping up the threat of so called russian bots and russian meddling through facebook. so this is an extension of the narrative we've

been hearing since the russia gate saga began. oh, and also you said on twitter that quote, the testimony of the facebook whistle blur tracks closely with imperial u. s. narratives. as a, could you elaborate on what you meant by that? well, she 1st warned that this about the problem of facebook were somehow providing a tool for ethiopia in mia and mar, as i mentioned before, to targets of, of us empire. ah, to target their own opposition movements internally. she then during q and a mentioned that iran was using facebook to target state actors, which could mean israel. and that attribution could have arrived to her through israeli intelligence for all we know. and she claimed that china was targeting the weaker minority through facebook, and we've heard so much for the last 3 years about a supposed weaker genocide in order to make the case for sanctions on china and

this kind of new, cold war confrontation. so that was all advanced through her presentation, and we should remember the counter intelligence or threat unit that how again was calling for fortifying is currently staffed inside facebook by former cia spies and pentagon officials. many people did not even know that that unit existed before this testimony. exactly. so how get and did work in the civic misinformation team? how damaging day thing misinformation all social media has been during the elections and kind of a pandemic? well, the question of misinformation is, who gets to define what it is, and when francis, how gin is calling for more government intervention in determining what misinformation is in facebook, it means that who,

that any one who contravenes government or official narratives about the pandemic, for example, can be a hard censored, they can have their accounts on youtube wiped out. and we have seen youtube and its owner, google actually not just d monetized, but actually wipe out accounts that are questioning the pandemic response. we've seen more censorship than probably at any time during the pandemic. and so misinformation is a very dubious term that we see weaponized by official entities and by the western. this establishment centered around nato, also to censor media of its declared enemies. as we saw with r t having its channel erased in germany. okay, so about what impact, say a thing her testimony will have on social media regulation. if any. what we've seen

facebook actually call for internet st. a complete reorientation of internet standards, new standards for the internet. and that suggests that facebook may have hack actually participated in this carefully staged public relations operation. we have to pay really close attention to francis huggins words. she does not want to break up facebook, which is effectively a monopoly. it's a gigantic social media entity. and those on the more or both on the left and the right who are concerned about facebook power. facebook's power i've been calling for breaking up and how can says she doesn't want to do that. she just wants more government intervention. so i think the impact we're going to see going forward is more censorship. more intervention from the intelligence services and the reorientation of the social media sites to target official

u. s. enemies per her recommendation. yeah, by when do you draw the line between allowing people to look for it to express their opinions freely and restrict saying what people paused once you go down that road, it's hard to turn back, isn't it? well, and i agreed with her about algorithmic amplification being a problem and that definitely needs to be resolved. but we have section 230 in the u. s. communications act that forbids lawsuits against the social media carriers for content posted by 3rd parties. and there is an effort to remove that which will result in a massive purging of content by any entity, for example, an independent media organization that is considered controversial and could open up the platform, the social media platform for lawsuits. and i think that's the,

the danger here is that we're going to see further consolidation of narrative control on these massive social media platforms. as a result of the panic created by pseudo whistleblowers like halligan, i said data in a thing, social media networks. it should be regulated and how, what was the danger from your pointing? well, if anything they should be considered are digital comments. and there should be democratic input into how they're regulated, and that would actually require the nationalization of these platforms, the same way that the telephone company is a municipal property in my country. and that's not anything that's being discussed . the kind of government intervention that was proposed by how again and those who were pulling her strings is going to take place an opaque fashion behind the scenes

. and undoubtedly with input from the intelligence agencies which are by nature opaque and unaccountable to the public. all right, mike solomon thow at same chief on think grays on mike. thank you very much indeed for sharing of ease with asthma. appreciated thanks for having me on today, mark's 20 years since the u. s. and his allies invaded afghanistan toppling the taliban regime. and now in the waco the west and pull out many questions are still being asked. not least why the taliban is offered to handle that. osama bin laden was rejected by the bush administration. one led to 2 decades of war. countless lines lost and, and band. the militants back in charge, our senior correspondent broadcast f reports now from campbell on hold. the conflict was that she has achieved the afghan war, and it's just shy of it's it's 20th anniversary, the, the war a vengeance that was launched by the united states as revenge for 911,

a quickly morph into something else. one of the most protracted conflicts in modern history, an exercise, and a nation building before losing all lame and tylenol towards the end. neither the united states nor any of its allies, still knew what it is that they hoped to achieve. here the end result that is that is that it was unanimously considered an abject failure. but taliban is, is back in control. and more absolutely than it was before the united states invaded afghanistan. and the question that we're hearing now in the halls of congress, in parliament, in europe, and the press and either on television internationally is, is who the we labor. we need to consider some uncomfortable truth that we did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership and nursing your ranks . that we do not grass

a damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders. and that we fail to fully grasp why there was only so much for which and for home. many of the afghan forces would fight. this has been a 10 year multi administration drawdown. not a 19 month or 19 day neo, these scandal is nowhere near over the americans calling it been ghazi on steroids . the republicans, as well as ordinary americans that see the end of the war as humiliating for america. they want someone held responsible, the biden and miss administration as well as the pentagon. so far they have done their best to absolve themselves of all accountability for what many americans again see as the catastrophe. they argue that the fault is with many american administrations that, that preceded them. and that is ignoring the tremendous financial cost of the war.

some that could have made the lives of americans and many of their allies at the taxpayers so much better and so much easier. ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah, we are the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and yet we have the highest child poverty rates of almost any country on earth.

from the perspective of a civilian, there is scott evidence here on the ground in afghanistan of any of that money other making its way here. aside from half finished clinics, him and broken roots, testament to record breaking levels of corruption that, that so brilliant siphoned off into the bank accounts of corrupt officials into the pockets of private contractors. though the evidence of these billions being here is in the hands of the taliban, the guns that they wield stamped with made in america, the vehicles military vehicles left behind, industrial quantities. the taliban are of course, jubilant. they have dismantled everything that the united states built here with human rights, the tolerance, the democratic institutions in the matter of weeks. and they are jubilant. they

have after 20 years of, and so wretched and rebellion, believe they won. ah, by virtually any measure, this war was a failure. in some respects, it even made things worse. from a humanitarian perspective or a 3rd of afghans near an offer on the verge of starvation, with no hope inside the drugs manufactured and export to that of, of gustavo killed countless youth worldwide. from a geopolitical perspective, the taliban considered an international pariah. since its inception is now having to be negotiated with it, i counted with even the un bob from

a security perspective. yes, al qaeda either gather star, may have been degraded but, but something worse has taken its place. and that is isis, which has bound to the challenge to afghanistan. dominance by the taliban. afghanistan, banks have almost run out of cash, and people are running out of food less than 2 months after the taliban take over. added to that foreign aid is in short, supply with west and down is reluctant to deal with the new government charities or warning of a major humanitarian crisis. and i know this is not easy, but there needs to be some solution to the financial flows into afghanistan. to ensure that at least salaries can be paid and that essential supplies, power, and water being 2 of them can be procured. the absence of that will seriously exacerbate vulnerability for ordinary outcomes. and was five's her again mine

a living and die poverty. he admitted to thee unimaginable, some would say understandable and to trying to sell his own children. and he claims it was an attempt to just to get money to feed the rest of his family home. and i wanna know they go up to can rejection, who just had a good business and a happy life when you smelled but then the war began. shall we migrated here? my savings were exhausted. a formula that some people got some me here much, but the others did not because our pockets are empty now and i have no option left . got to sell some of my kids in the world to fight for the survival of my other kids with the money or get them away when we get up and they give a patient. when your stomach is empty, you can't think about the dark. sorry. he's out of the g, i'm poor to sell a few of my kids to feed others and there is no option. lavender from which on the previous government did not help me, but i hope this new one will support me. i'm not asking for support for myself. alone, but for all these people living here, when they are all from my tried when they measure all of us refugees. here are one families. i asked for financial help for everyone. the russian foreign ministry has

filed a count to request to the o. p. c. w. after the united states and 44 other countries officially submitted a list of questions to the body, demanding mosca gave details about the alleged poisoning of crime and critic, alec st. 70. russia has said several times, the global chemical weapons watched august, blankly refusing to cooperate. anyone who calls on russia to conduct an investigation incorporation with the o p. c. w into what happened to miss in a valley meets to once again be reminded of the facts. a year ago, russia replied to the technical secretariat to the o. p. c. w. for technical assistance on the article, 8 of the convention, but we never got any help. in august last, 10 of ali fell ill on an internal to lie to moscow. after an emergency landing, he was taken to hospital and placed in an induced coma, who was later elected to germany at the request of his family. doctor's in berlin,

said nevada. it hadn't been exposed to the novi chalk nav agent, and ultimately blamed the russian government. both russian officials and medical professionals who treated in a volunteer claim no poisonous substances were detected in his body while he was in the russian hospital. moscow has repeatedly asked both germany and the o p. c, w for joint investigation. after making a recovery, alexander bollinger returned to moscow where he was arrested and sentenced to 2 years in trail for breaking his parole conditions in a corruption case. and was spoke to the russian representative to b. o. p. c. w. alexander shogun, who gave us fast hand information on the latest developments. ah, status, obsidian stay, there's a feeling that something else. ah, the goals are driving them judge for yourself today. i was not allowed to speak for more than an hour. the pretext were different. for example, the absence of the bulgarian representative. he should have been great in the

appeal of 45 countries, i asked the ambassadors of the united states, great britain to britney not want to hear the answer from russia. there was no desire to listen to us. apparently, of the goals are being pursued. it is possible that his whole story is connected with the escalation of sanctions prussia in a dilemma. ah, we wanted to do a joint investigation. and what do you think the technical secretariat began to drag out the whole thing? one of the excuses was that there were no similar incidents from the u. k. all the u. s. were putting forward a counter request within the same framework and expect that from sweden and the technical secretariat will never less on the same questions that we asked earlier. we close this subject with a request from 45 countries and sent a counter request. the bowl is on their side. ah, mount oscars to go and some nato countries are working with substances called navi,

chuck. i recall the statements of the check president who said in his country there were laboratories where work is carried out with the substance called a tooth rio which can be attributed to navi chuck. the pretty sight admitted that in their potent down laboratory work was carried out with substances from the family of navi choke. the united states is the only country that is not freed itself from chemical weapons. 140 peyton's had been developed there for the use of ammunition that contains chemical warfare agents, such as no v choke. boyd and gas prices have been reduced it more of a center after intervention from lighting a. payton has st. russia, well, a ramp up exposed to europe addressing the continents and then sure crisis on wednesday, the president added at moscow would continue its commitment to ukraine in regards to gas transit. as should they should. yes, prom believes that it would be more profitable for it to pay a fine t a crate and increase the gas volume pumping through the new systems. but there's

no need for that. there's more pressure in the pipe, less c o 2 emissions into the atmosphere. everything turns out cheaper and at $3000000000.00 a year. it is necessary to 40 comply with the contractual obligations for the transitive gas through ukraine. although it is more profitable to sell it on the exchange. but there is no need to bought anyone in a difficult position, including ukraine, despite the difficulties in relations. second, there's no need to undermine gas prompts confidence is an absolute reliable partner . in all respects. let him have his statements and a subsequent letter, and the gas prices have st. summoned the mainstream media changed their tone to will signal strength a pipeline, and more generally on rush, as well as europe's key energy supply concerns. other, moscow's alleged attempts to use oil and gas as leverage, had lessened significantly at russia, wants it to be approved. but i don't think she's really doing anything wrong here.

you know, europe has a supply crunch. russia has the gas to supply it. russia doesn't necessarily benefit from care for the market. they want high stable prices and they want to be seen as the reliable partner. some are words soothing words i guess which we rarely get from mr. potent actually helped reverse that. 3540 percent jump over night in natural gas over in europe is an element of, of russia playing politics. but there's also an element of a lot of money having been invested in noise being do not just on the russian side from the european side as well. i'm going trevon, chancellor angle merkel has been focal in support of russia. as a sublime partner speaking at an e u bowl can summit in slovenia, shes tries that moscow's always stuck to his contractual obligations to father. it is our gift. if you ask me whether there have been orders that russia has taken and then fail to fulfill as it stands. now, that is not the case. various,

there are no orders that russia has said no, we will not deliver those to you and we're not pumping gas through their crenan pipelines. rather, russia can only fulfill orders that have been contract it out. so the questions really isn't being ordered still. the russian leader also put the current crisis in the european gas market down to the ease rush to push for a green transition. coupled with brussels decision to switch from long term gas contract to immediate support trading. the current while since it can betrays back to april this year, but a swell come is all came as a to a had this week, leaving european citizens to delve yet deeper into already under strained pockets. ah

ah. maintaining a trusted energy bond ship between russia and europe is a key focus of an international gas form taking place in st. petersburg. it's day 3 or the gathering. and our correspondent alia the trend, carries there on the side lines of the van to hey, caught up with the seo of the a cessation of european businesses that jew schilling in the end, ah, pragmatism prevailed. it also showed that the interests of different stakeholders need to be taken into account. there is no sense in insisting on a,

on one perspective and denying a to the fact that others view a project differently. you need to sit together. so it also showed the need for international cooperation the, the fact that now the stalemate has been overcome and that we have avoided for a complete blockage of the project is actually very good news. as europe, as a soon as association of european businesses, we've also always been very clear that we are against the application of sanctions, especially in an extra to territorial perspective that we think this is a purely commercial project. and we also think that the european energy security, something that should be decided in europe natural gas has an actually tremendous role to play as a transition shoe. we are here talking now about the traditional fuel mix that we

need to move away from and move to greener or energy sources. but there is also a way how we need to bridge this process between a status that is the current status and, and out of future desires status. in the wake of the gas prices stain has said the european commission should negotiate gas contracts on behalf of all you member state instead of the present system of an individual nations, a grain contract. the proposal law government is making is that the you commission negotiates on behalf of all 27 member states. what we propose is a strength and cooperation. however, no evelyn's happy with mad transfer. puzzled with critic, sang 8 in coaches on the sovereignty of national states. alternative for germany policy and the p gonna back believe the king would run counter to the use uncaring tools. it clearly contravene for article

$194.00 of the eel treaties. there's a very bad habit on the part of the e or institutions themselves, as well as many member states to disregard its own goal. they think their national interest justifies a breach of the treaty. they don't hesitate to ask others disregard the treaty. now, as a purely hypothetical scenario, if the treaty didn't dis allied, would i support this proposal? well, it depends on the perspective isn't necessarily sensible for a come tray to share it's energy supplies with everyone else. this pretty little solidarity the power to bother you repeat countries with germany generally.