ah ah, or headline stories this our facebook admits in court of a it's 3rd party fact checks are nothing more del opinions fueling further allegations of bias and censorship on social media. also ahead i said, i'm grandma and cindy u. k. over new restrictions being brought in to combat the fall spreading all me krohn kobe very, and one m p even come per the proposals to nazi or a german 8 and the pentagon sees, it won't told anyone liable for a botched drone strike enough gun this down that killed and 10 civilians including 7 children, one former u. s. military drone pilot told us all this

a stray sion over the decision to see that nothing has changed even when it's blatantly out in front of everyone's face. how we operate and no one is being held accountable like we've been talking about this 10 years now. ah . oh, just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow, wednesday, december, the 55 unit o'neill, man, this is the news our on our t in a lunmark court case. facebook has admitted that it's 3rd party fact checks are just opinions. the revelations came during a legal battle journalists are bringing against a social media chide, accusing it of defamation after post related to their work were flagged as false ortiz, southgate taylor can pick up the story from their facebook might have got

a self and new name matter but it seems that it's up to its old trick, the age old question of whether it's a free, an open platform. or in fact, a giant tech company that is to censoring anyone. it does like has yet to again re and merge. now, the latest rob resignations transpired from a neural suit, filed against facebook by john list, and not because one of his posts from about last year's californian wild fires, was fac, checked, and labelled party fault. so he said for defamation as he said, but the social media platforms response has been to lift up his hands and say when it can't be defamation. because this frank check is we're packing out to win. the world of nasty misinformation are actually surprise 3rd party people who decide what is full, so not based, not on franks, but on opinion. and because this is america opinion is sacred. stossel claims focus on the fact check articles written by climate feedback. note, the labels are fixed through the facebook, but for the labels themselves are neither false nor defamatory to the contrary,

that constitutes protected opinion. so facebook has essentially admitted that, for fact, check, has facts, opp, optional. and of course, it does have a right to do this. facebook as a private company, so it's policy is an internal matter. but the point is, is that it does have responsibility on accountability before it's roughly 3000000000 uses worldwide. and actually speaking of them, undoubtedly who feel misled at best, and maybe downright night to it was they've been sharing that take on these latest developments. court filing, facebook admits it's fact checkers. don't check facts. is facebook admitted here that it's fact checks are not really fact checks at all, but merely pinning assertions also by facebook clement it's labels constitute opinions than doesn't that make it a publisher. facebook, your opinion piece is not exempt from being fact checked, even when they are clearly labeled as op eds or editorials. also, facebook or fax labels can not be false or pharma tree because they concent,

she'd protects that opinion even though we present them. as fact. we don't, facebook got a whole section on its website dedicated to fact check isn't it really does salad while you know, a 2 organizations watching and 60 languages fighting lies together. it's a rigorous process and that process involves identifying the problematic post and then reviewing it. and apparently, and wanted to decide whether this post is actually what it goes straight to the source it into these people consult data. and then on the basis of these findings that determines whether that content needs to be filtered or allowed to circulate. so it really does sound like a thorough only scientific process, no way in all of that. and bleeping actual lives of tool through that was a lot of it is absolutely no use of words and opinion. subjective, you know, personal perception, judgment does nothing like that speaking more widening. you know, if you do listen to some, the top ross at facebook, you believe that they never really fell to any content because that's such great champions of free speech. if your democracy can't tolerate the speech of people,

i'm not sure what kind of democracy it is. i do believe in giving people more access to information and more anxious to connect with one another and not reserving those as tools for some small number of lead people. i don't feel comfortable at all saying they don't get to have a voice because i don't agree with what they said. our ability to know what is misinformation is itself in question and i think reasonably. so i think many people would agree without a party sentiment from him, but the question era is, is facebook trying to get us out out of a tight spot with this rule suit by suddenly amending the job description of fact jekka in order to escape any liability or has it actually just been lying on its website for this time? by the way, it's not good enough for the company. and it's certain does absolutely nothing to count all those accusations for all these years that they have been silencing voice says arbitrary blocking conton quite frankly, straying into the dangerous territory of censorship. just on this story earlier i spoke to so so the 1st broadcaster, dave perkins, he thinks that facebook is desperately trying to avoid a barrage of further losses. facebook has found themselves back against the wall

and if they try to cling to the idea that they are fact checking in court, they're going to lose. and not only is it going to cost them big dime, but it's an open the door to a flood of similar lawsuit in the near future, and it could be more than they can handle. i think they're hoping that by admitting that fact, jack just means opinion jack, when facebook puts a label on there, hoping to get out of this lawsuit without harm. and then just sink the story into the daily fountain of news events and hope people forget about it. in due time and in the, in the future, you'll see changes in their labels. they'll stop using the word fact and they'll come up with some other way to express it where they still exercise their dictatorship right to control speech on their platform. but it won't be a false presentation like the word fact jack is off the u. k. i started to record only crohn cases in their thigh since the very it now comes for 20

percent of all infections in the country and nearly half in london. one death, though, and total has been confirmed linked to the pseudonym yuton strain. boris johnson has not brought in his plan b new restrictions on accelerated rule out as well as mr. jones, but many members of his own party, they're not convinced it's the way ford. we are not a papers please society, this is not nazi germany. well, the prime minister lake is instruction to the nation is get to boosted and now the aim really is to get every single adult in the country vaccinated with that boosted job. by the end of this month, the is quite ambitious then really because that would mean i'm 1000000000 people need to be jobs every single day, and i'm outside saint thomas hospital here in central london. and as you can see, the queue is really piling up. now this morning, in fact being a chances are telling people to stop trying to book their boost the online the system has totally crashed and why. 7 may you ask about the acceleration of this

booster program now? well, according to the how secretary the on the chrome variant is now the dominant one. no, very old code 19 has spread this fast. oh me. expect it to become the dominant code 19 parent in the capital in the next 48 hours. so the 2nd of this week is to get a boosted now, and it's all part of a drive of the plan. b covert restrictions that include face mouse being made. mandatory again cove. it possible it's co, that ice elation rules, but also the most controversial one is trying to get the n 8 just to get vaccinated, making that compulsory now many people in the public se that's an attack on civil liberties. that's something that some m p 's agree with. and so we're expecting a huge tory rebellion. many people saying compelling the public to get immunized as simply a step too far. not to mention the temporary emergency measures that don't seem to be so temporary anymore. we were told these measures might be left before santa

took to his sleigh, and suddenly, before half the country was pinged into the gulag, there seems no lead up to this kind of self defeating dystopian logic. well, just yesterday, then the government put the owners back on the public saying we must all be playing our part. but that's quite a difficult message to the public to take, especially after the last few weeks of revelations that some politicians don't to be playing. that part and try to get on the other side of this pandemic. and yes, i'm talking about those downing street christmas parties. agree in the headline news there in the united kingdom, but many people, as you can see, the q directly behind me, they all following the rules. they want to get that booster now. perhaps as a long stitch effort to save that christmas's chevy a mention. there was a brief moment of panic on choose day after in person pcr tests were temporarily unavailable at science are crossing and the government's website has not been updated showing you time slots. and despite

u k efforts to ramp up testing to country the new army, cranberry, and there are still plenty of questions over hard potent or otherwise it actually is. now all about points, we spoke with simon clark simons. i'm micro biologist reading university in the u. k. always inevitable when you, when you turn up the volume on these measures for eliza, that these things take time and the to do you have to change what's available and what's delivering that's about program. and i think that's what we need. i think that's what we see is, is governments are being nervous about leaving the stable boy from, from a horse to bolt, because that's what's happened before. and they don't want it to happen again, much more transmissible. so that trans miss ability, but more than i would take them any central drop in virulence, inability to cause disease, far more people. then you'll end up with a big burden on,

on society and on its health care system. none of the u. s. military personnel involved in a bought drone strike in afghanistan moved face any kind of punishment. 10 civilians were killed in august attack, most of whom were children. the pentagon made the announcement on monday. did you not anticipate that they're being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th here straight blue. busy eyed are they 7 children who were killed. the youngest was just to the man targeted in this trunk was m r. i act mattie an aide worker who was mistaken for

a terrorist. we heard from his grieving brother, that's the key. you're personally them. so this also, this news came as a shock for us is humiliating to hear that no one will be prosecuted. they should have kept their word. we hope that the people who ordered and carried out this attack would face justice. the americans claim they can spot a needle on the ground from their satellites to how could they not see the innocent family they were about to kill present they found no connection between us and his lamb. it stays. so why didn't they do those checks before launching a bomb as us? so they promised us justice and compensation that they would take us to the us little money, but it looks like no other countries forcing them to seek justice. there is no want to challenge them because they're superpower, me. that's why the americans failed to keep their promises. here. all righty. we've been speaking with more people who lost their loved ones in the bombing raid on the eve of the u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan. there still hoping for justice. you

can watch those interviews in on heard voices available at r t dot com. well, the pentagon initially defended the cabal strike lemming. it was aimed at islam excitement such more than 2 weeks later though a quote tragic mistake was acknowledged. we discussed all that but forming u. s. military drone operator brandon bryan. you know, it's been 10 years since i blew the whistle on the u. s. drone program will be 10 years in 5 days, actually. um and to see that nothing has changed, even when it's blatantly out in front of everyone's face, how we operate and, and no one's being held accountable. like we've been talking about this for 10 years now. when i 1st started talking about it, people called me a liar. people tried to defame me, and now that we see it for what it actually is, innocence had been killed. not just innocent and innocent aid worker who was there trying to help. i really think that the managed states has lost knowledge on how to

conduct warfare. and it's now a business. they're not going to punish the people that make them money. they're just going to punish the people that are so the supposed enemies in the ones that they test this, munitions on who should be punished are the officers. they said that there is a breakdown in communication, but that is mostly a lie. i am must have been that there was there and there must been someone miscommunicating something but they have everything should be in a chat program like it's not just a radio call instantaneous. you spin up your mess when you shoot. it takes like 5 minutes to get ready to shoot a messiah. this was not an emergency situation. none was under spire. no one was under duress, no one was under stress. and so they had all the time in the world to make the decision on whether to shoot or not. while the cat bull instant followed a long string of similar disastrous,

according to the bureau of investigative journalism, up to 900 afghan civilians have been killed by us drones since 2004, including dozens of children. brandon bryant again thinks it's partly done to the extreme disconnect between drew operators on what's happening on the ground. there's no way that anyone who has ever done this job and sit there watching these people live their day daily lives out, can not look at them and say, these are not people there. people because you go home when you go out into your own community and you see the same, keep same types of people doing the same thing. they're going to coffee shops, there, go into bookstores, they're hanging out with their friends and family. there is no disconnect for a drone operator. there's so much connection. like if, if a drone operator were to go over there and to meet the people that they interact with. visually, they would probably have a emotional break down and cry because they would see that these people are suffering and no different than themselves. and that we're perpetuating that suffering because of our actions. we're doing it. the british government is

planning to reform its human rights laws by adding a healthy dose of common sense as the justice secretary put it. some of the proposals have long been coal for including the putting foreign criminals, but the overall package has drawn a wave of criticism from the opposition and rights activists. this bill represents the biggest legal assault on international refugee law ever seen in the u. k. a future where the u. k. brakes, his international law, obligations and ox out of human rights protections is a very bad future. these conservative governments attacks on the rural floor must top the human rights ad does not stop as depaul in serious criminals threatening to weaken people's ability to challenge the government. just because the core sometimes rule against you is the act of dictators and despots. not democrats interest to go through it then a little the proposed changes would apply to the u. k. human rights act,

which has been in place for 20 years. among other things, the conservative government wants greater powers to curb foreign criminals ability to appeal deportation. not to give british courts more flexibility and interpreting rulings from the european court of human rights option returns the host of going underground. an art c believes the timing of the proposals. is significant. viewers around the world are going to say, you know, i, this is just coming days after a, a british caught accused of corruption by some of oh, returned to previous judgment. that the julian assange of wiki things can be said to the united states, to phase 1. 175 years for revealing war crimes. so why, why so soon as we learn of that judgment and his stroke in a high security prison? do we suddenly hear a reform or consultation document on the human rights act, which will, which will and on the table is

a reform of european human rights at court affiliation of the british system. one of the reform it's one of the main points of it is that the u. k. wants to make it easier to, to port foreign offenders. that's something that a lot of conservative voters have been asking for for many years. why should that one be a problem? the numbers of foreign offenders that have been coming to britain. if you look at statistics, our minuscule entails of over turning the entire human rights act. one could maybe say that britain is acting quite intelligently about this britain. after all knows exactly the scale of the refugee crisis from countries that it participated in the annual bombarding of it was britain, of course that destroyed africa's riches per capita. country libya on the mediterranean, there were a 1000 untold thousands of drowned. and of course, england and france were involved in that. we have refugees drowning in the english

channel. and of course, england and britain was responsible partly for the aerial bombardment of iraq. afghanistan off syria, that britain knows where and why refugees are seeking solace and asylum from countries whose economies and whose entire populations have been destroyed. another story that we're across today, the u. s. homeland security department is under fire. after all was revealed, the agency had secretly obtained information on journalists, congress members, and possibly even its own staff using data bases set up to track international terrorists. the associated press, whose reporter was one of those targeted is demanding answers where deeply concerned about these apparent abusive power. this appears to be an example of journalists being targeted for simply doing their jobs, which is a violation of the 1st amendment. what we have in question is

a secret border patrol unit called counter network division. and apparently it had very few rules, very few guidelines. it operated and will abided by and according to the report that has well, that has made the headlines views to proudly some of the america's most sensitive databases to look into and to vet people. when i say people, i do not mean known criminals on poor people. charged with something or even people suspected of committing a federal crime. when i say that people, they were rather vetting journalists or world congressman or congress people or just angio workers. they were vetting them as they were considering working with them this well counter network division and the sort of information they could get they could obtain from databases like for example, a terror watchlist is well, quite expansive. for example, they could get their financial logs, they could get their travel logs, they could even pry into their personal affairs. for example,

the apparently used they're the most sensitive databases and all sorts of tools to look into well into a journal less than a political reporter who was well, romantically involved with a senior senate staffer, they called the operation a whistle pig, apparently inspired by a very particular brand of whiskey and they used the information that they had obtained to ensnare said senate staffer. now these revelations, they have caused quite a stir and of they have been condemned. these practices have been condemned by journalists by privacy advocates, and even officials. if true, this abuse of government surveillance powers to target journalists, elected officials, and their stuff is deeply disturbing if multiple government agencies were aware of this conduct and took no action to stop it than he's to be. so is consequences for every official involved. and department of homeland security and the justice department must explain what actions they're taking to prevent this unacceptable conduct in the future. officials. they have said that quote unquote,

they do not condone the investigation of reporters and one person who was singled out as a member of the secret unit. jeffrey rambo has also dismissed the reporting as sensationalized. he has said that they did not do anything out of the ordinary that it was all common practice. this secret unit by the way, it is still operational to this day and a party operates according to the same rule book. will let's pick up and some of those points and speak to journalist on commented or chadwick, murray chadwick, you're very welcome to the program. indeed, as a journalist space in the us, what was your reaction when operation whistle peg came to light? well, it's deeply shocking and chilling actually more accurately. but this is also nothing really new. and this is something that transcends administration that transcend democrat and republican administration. it's something that to make us while this people talk about the deep state and they sound like

a conspiracy theory. this is exactly what they're talking about. vast unaccountable, bureaucratic intelligence services in the united states. they're washington d. c. that have unlimited power and they tend to, or they appear to operate outside of elected officials, outside of government. this goes back to the, the obama administration, at least, of course, george w bush established this massive survey on state after $911.00. but there were many, many instances of the obama administration investigating and targeting journalist using the agency in the technology less so under the jump administration. and now it's back again with the, by the ministration intriguing, the, the a t p has been targeted before, as you say, under the obama administration, phone records have reported received this time. it's a p. let's are winning investigative journalist. why do you think that the surveillance power of government agency still hasn't been, hasn't been rain, didn't, or at least how to had a big conversation about that a significant want?

well, also don't forget another big story that i don't want to cover not too long ago, was this happening to tucker paulson, who is a fox news host and the number one cable television. he said that somebody took them off that someone in the intelligence agencies was reading his emails and preparing to lead them through opposition media. it was originally because he was trying get interview with me. thank russian president vladimir putin, something a journalist should do. so that was another big story recently come out regarding this now why no one does something about it. congress, it seems like congress should be able to do something about it. they won't, you put up quotes in congress, people who are saying are deeply concern. i don't think anything will happen might be, i don't know if it's too far to say that maybe because these agencies have every bit of dirt. they cannot members of congress. maybe congress, people are frightened to come out against these agencies with elden services in any kind of meaningful way that's possible. but congress could absolutely do something,

but they haven't, and i don't think they will take away a piece chadwick from this. i would suggest just of if true resources, time effort were being spent and watching journalists not terrorist was the remit of that data base and nuts, no being made public. will us citizens, cur, they really ought to. and this is a direct attack on our 1st amendment. we've known about it for a while, and we'll, the media drama, political moment here to make people care more journalists should absolutely be the ones who care most. and they are the ones delivering this message. we have this report from the a p as incense by this, but i don't know if i think it would still take it to congress and i don't think there's a political will to really target this right now. even though we know it's been going on for many years and at least into 3 administrations now, let me just the briefly to the contrary, government has been call sensationalist that there is not a lot to this. is there an argument to be said that if you have nothing to hide,

then why would you mind being watched like this? because that's not the country we live in. there's absolutely no reason why someone from a government should be looking at your bank records, who you're emailing your travel records, it goes automatically against everything that this country stands for that, that our constitution. so it doesn't matter if you have something to hide or not. it's wrong and it should be a lot, probably legal, and it's not, it's present of the values of the country and the people in journalists are being deceived. and this is all being funded by our government. does anything change now that it's been exposed? this is the 1st step to change. i don't know if we could expect to see anything meaningful happen. ok. chadwick, thanks as always for your time on your thoughts. pleasure speaking to you today. journalist and commentator job thank you. k, prosecutors say the wife of an american diplomat charged with killing a teenager will face criminal proceedings. after all,

i'm so cool as fled back across the atlantic after her car collided with motorcyclist hurry done, i saw the u. s. military base in england. the tragedy happened more than 2 years ago, then miss nicholas was accused of causing death by dangerous striving. she claimed diplomatic immunity and was allowed to leave the u. k. that done family then file an extradition request, which was rejected by washington. that's not been granted. lawyers acting for school as have previously admitted that she drove on the wrong side of the road before colliding with hurry done. they say that's because she had only been in the u. k. 3 weeks on took the right hand lane quote. instinctively, rod seager is an advisor for the dumb fumbling and spoke to the program earlier. he thinks their long campaign for justice is finally making progress. we sort of feel this is a combination of almost 2 and a half years now of relentless, tireless campaigning. for this appalling decision by the u. s. government should

deny mary's family justice. we don't know why this happened. all we know was that it was a, it's a terrible decision on the part of the u. s. government and supposedly, or strongest ally, why you would want to condemn a totally innocent family to, to this torture. this mental torture is beyond me, but i were very pleased now that i am with your help and your colleagues helping the media that they have now clearly been left with no choice other than to change their decision and allow justice and whatever form that takes to now take its, it's natural course. i think the turning point was when president biden came into office and we know he suffered a, a similarly similar family tragedy himself. and we, we learned from, from him that he was going to take a different approach to the one that president truck took. i think my other theory

is that inevitably, governments, when they make a decision, find it very difficult to change their minds. but the, the courage of this family and the help of the media all around the world, the americans ultimately were left with no choice and other than to change their decision. these things, unfortunately do take a lot of time. and that is where we leave at for now, i'll be back at the top again in just over 30, but next some more great programs get there. start. see what's showing where you are. after the shortest off break stick looks ah, well, so with

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