least that's, you know, the original announcement of what they were looking at them for. we're going to get into some specifics and a little bit about what that's being defined down to now. now here's the article i wanted to show you as well. this is in a french newspaper. lamont uh, just just today and, and i think this is interesting. look at the headline, look at reads, telegram affair poses a test for the european union. and then the subhead says it's rekindling the debate on how to adjust the digital space to align with european regulations. now. okay, that's fair. that's actually a fair headline and a fair comment. governments do have the right to try and come up with what actual guidelines to make sure that social media and digital platforms are used for harm. for example, i get it. that's fair. if i plan to the only country to criticize social media sites for sometimes irresponsible material on their platforms, russia, why should the same thing?

in fact, russia actually did this when it went after telegraph. here's the headline in that one. if you want to see it, rush up tried to shut down telegram they did. so because most of the material on telegram was very critical of rush. and in fact, durham was critical of russian president vladimir poor. and so yeah, i got it. governments are trying to figure this whole new technology out how they're going to figure it out. what are they going to do? can we sit down and maybe come up with a plan or something, right? but the rush, i didn't the rest this guy. you know what i mean? they didn't arrestin. now telegram is used by the way, by millions of russians. and it's such as russians. it's used by millions of people all over the world. obviously. in fact, it's favored by many because when you message on telegram, it's supposed to be more secure, even supposedly encrypted. so why is france being heavily criticized for this by people all over the world? by the way? because arresting a ceo for what people may do or say on his platform or not say,

is a lot like the rest of the arresting the head of a phone company for what, what people say or talk about on their, during their private conversations on private lines. you can control that and here's the double standard. now look at this book, a dispute look at these. um pictures i found to share with you many social media sites including twitter and facebook. have also come under similar scrutiny as we discussed. but look out there for the see of facebook was treated. he was wined and dined when he went to france, sat down and got to hang out with the french president my crowd and made sure they had nice pictures of the 2 of them. this is a sharp contrast, isn't it? quite a double standard when you think about it in comparison to the c o telegram, he wasn't winding dime. i mean, he's been thrown in jail. and that's kind of where we are right now with this story,

my little little, let me bring you into this uh search over the top as you look at the story developed. well, we should point out that according to the officials at telegram, they say that people durham is a french dual citizen, moratti's citizenship. so a citizen of the u i. e, where he now resides us. so we'd probably have to further explore whether or not that had any impact as to why they were arresting him. or if this is just on the broader scope of things, a, a way to punish him for not cooperating with french or you. excuse me, european union, you laws regarding censorship, as we've seen in the u. k. man, how they're shutting things down there in france for example, does not like rumble the the video platform because also they are not sensory. so there's a lot of questions here regarding where france and their belief in freedom of

expression and freedom of speech actually lie in 2024. when conveniently, as you just pointed out and showed mark zuckerberg who runs facebook and instagram, are notoriously places where you find a lot of child pornography and even human trafficking taking place. and the brother in it or bottom where you find that everywhere. i mean, is, this is a problem. social media is not, you know, this newscast, where we're very careful and try to be ethical and have certain standards that we have to uphold. social media is just a big party where everybody can go in and say whatever the hell they want. so, i mean that's what it is, that's about p or cells. so to say that, oh, there was some stuff that was bad on facebook. there was some stuff that was bad on delegate. there was some stuff that was bad on, on, on twitter door. yes. and it's good to be there and there's no way you can get rid of it. the question is, what do you hold responsible for? it. maybe you need to just shut it down,

but you can't arrest one guy. let the other guy say, no problem. right? i mean that, that's kind of what's going on. yeah. yeah, that's exactly it. now i am no expert in french law, but obviously like here in the us, section $230.00 is a major problem for tech companies as well as those on capitol hill because sometimes it's a clickable and they want to use, you know, these big tech companies, the social media companies and call them, you know, a publisher when, when it's convenient, they just allow them to be a platform and they want them to not moderate other times they want them to moderate. but the key fact here, rick, is that on both sides of the atlantic, what they want, they being the powers in both france and here in washington is that they want access the powers that be want backdoor right. stuff. and powell durham is not playing ball. well no, because again, there would would, that would be like saying, hey, by the way, uh, ms. manila or mr. rick. uh,

any time you get on your phone were giving access to the c i a or whoever. so, so they can listen to your call, just wanted let you know, i mean, i wouldn't ever get on my phone. i mean, why wouldn't or the police or the, or the mafia, whoever. all right, listen, 2nd story ready? democrats finally finished their convention. all things considered the broadway production went swimmingly. well, well no real news came out of it. it was extremely entertaining and, and likely going to boost their lead over mr. trump, even more so. but many are still talking about cala harris's saber. rattling me o'connor speech, and wondering when did the democrats becomes so hawkish, so blood, there's the war hungry sounding here. you're as commander in chief. i will ensure a mirror of not always has the strongest moseley for fighting force in the world

leafy fighting force in the world. we're going to be the biggest. the bad is the best we're going to kill you. we're going to kill everybody up like yet. well, i'm old enough to tell you that it used to be the democrats who were at least in terms of what they presented in a speech like this in the past. they were the party of peace. we're going to make sure there is peace in the world. we're going to get rid of the wars republicans and their media partners in fox news, for example. they were the war party, the ones who pushed through the iraq war, not the democrats. right? they've pushed it right down americans, roads, but now it's like the rules are completely reversed. i mean, i watched it happen when i used to. i covered the iraq war when i worked at and b. c. it's kind of fascinating to watch this woman and i know there's reasons for it, what they're trying to do and position themselves a certain way. but, but what, what did you think of the vice president harris sounding like a cross between?

oh, i don't know john wayne and john bolton like john bolton shaved and put away gone. no, i mean i really feel like what we heard in that that 40 minutes speech that she gave was like the d and c. some in the spirit of john mccain and talked about war ward like you said, blood thursday, what killed them all. i mean, that was the tune of all of this and, and because it seems increasingly that the parties here in the us have seem to have switched priorities and goals and their platform. yes. um, you, you've seen a migration of the people that are neo cons, even though the name is, you know, short for neo conservative. yeah. the neo con party is basically the never trump party, and they have migrated over to the dmc. we saw adam cleansing or the former congressman go speak. he was given a pint time slot at the dnc convent. you're so right here. so right. yeah. to

applied calmly. harris or you know, being vis or that the other thing and promoting their values and what are their values traditionally reward judgments? what are the traditional more strict, are saying? it's john mccain's of the 2000 ukraine and then china and iran and then gaza. and then it's like it goes on forever and you're wondering, wow, you guys used to be different. all right, let's talk bobby kennedy, robert f. kennedy junior, the son of the man who would have been president of the united states have not assassinated. and the nephew of j f k, who was also assassinated, says his reputation has been assassinated by our 2 political systems, our 2 party system, most of all by the democrats democratic party and as well. the media literally chose to ignore him and ridicule him even when he had 20 percent of the vote. the tnc allied mainstream media and ad works maintain a near perfect embargo on interviews with thing. earned his 10 month presidential

campaign and 1992 raj for ro gave a $34.00 interviews. i'm industry networks. in contrast, during the 16 modest since i declared abc, nbc cbs m. s. nbc a. cnn combined gave only 2 live interviews from a that amazing, the other guy got 20. he barely got to kennedy has decided to quit his campaign, though he will not. he was, he's still gonna remain on the ballot in most states by the way, which means it's kind of a quasi quit and he's throwing a support to donald trump. trump, for his part, took the opportunity to announce that investigation a task force that's going to look into what americans have always wanted to know. who was really behind the killing of john f. kennedy. and they will be test scores, releasing all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of

president john f. this is amazing. the way this develop this weekend, 1st r f k junior says, i'm out. any announces he's going to go with trump, then trump announces among the many things he's going to do is he's going to create this task force to find out who killed his father and his uncle. what fascinating the way this all played out manella, what were your thoughts? yeah, real quick. rick. let's unpack this clause. i quitting as you put it. he's quad by quitting the campaign only in the states that are considered up for grabs. states like nevada or north carolina that are now considered swing states. he's taking his name off of those ballots in hopes that the voters that he had in those states will then migrate over to the trump camp with his endorsement. he's hoping it to be a spoiler only to the democratic party. i would say obviously

a little bit of vengeance for the way they treated. yeah. so poorly when he's been a lifelong democrat and champion, you know, the environmental causes and health insurance and all of that stuff for decades. and when it came time for him to throw his hat in the ring, they stabbed him in the back. so in the 11th hour, that's what he's doing back to them in those those, those purple ish state's data. so he's still remaining on the ballots. on the other ardently blue and ardently red states because he still needs to secure for an independent party in 2028. he needs to secure 5 percent of the voting block in order to get federal funding for the next 2028 cycle. who ever, that may be as an independent, so he's laying the groundwork as well. so i think this is going to be a great move to shake things up right after the dnc ended point. well made thanks for sharing that with us. that's fascinating. yeah,

it's not just that they ignore them. i mean, they did everything possible the only focus on every negative thing that's ever happened in his life and the guy in perfect trust me, by the way, neither mind the there's anybody else, but they really smearing and on things like that. he found a bear once i've left it in a park who cares? but it is what it is and that's where we're going. thanks, manila, great conversation. when we come back, we're going to drill down on of france. the rest of the problem there of and what this really means we're going to be doing by elijah mon. yay. he is live in france . there is. he's a veteran war correspondent, a journalist. he knows a lot about this story and is going to share some details with us. we're so glad he's there. we'll be right back of the united states. tried doing out of sanctions on russia. that's the best thing the that's kind of happened to russia because the sanctions on russia, against agriculture, against the other items, to made russia fetus hurting samsung. so as on agriculture and now. so the major

probably next part are no longer dependence on the united states and europe, the valley. her mother's us to store the model girl to i got you, no problem. seeing that on the out of the thing 30 minutes us out of the drive. i showed my brother through he was sudden to help people for a lo so now i never look at searches as being saved. well, i guess i lost my list. that's the outcome of chicago. police. it'd be gang chicago is like, can you be a photo of that police? you really think your life as another crime? same another could have been a doctor. a nurse could have been the next president. we can't keep losing people

out here the . so my producer just came in, handed me the list of the charges being announced by of france against the founder of telegram. and for the most part i can take you through it. but one keyword is basically the running line through all of it is complicity complicity. in other words, they're saying that he's complicit for anything bad that was said or done up on his platform which to my mind and maybe i'm wrong. we're going to bring a guest to talk about this now, is like saying the, the, the ceo of a phone company is complicit for anything that anybody talks about or plans on the phone or any other kind of communication device. and any company that owns

a communication device, so this gets into some really tricky area. there's a couple of other things up. let me bring in, elijah manya, he's a veteran war correspondent and a journalist. he joins us now live from france. i'm looking at this, i'm sure you probably looked at it as well. uh, the elijah, what, what's your take on what you're seeing for the official reason for yanking this man off a plane and throwing them in jail and telling them he might have to be there for 20 years with festival. it's important to highlight that he was granted the fresh nationality, 3 years ago, by the foreign ministry, for his services to improve and contribute to influence the action, the influence of spies and the prosperity of the did not send that they cannot, they cannot make relations. and for years like that it was thrown in j. so if you look at the list in your hands, there are 12 charges. yep. the most tilted one at the most significant reason why

who was arrested is the 2nd one because he refused to communicate at the request of the local authority, which ends escaped all the intelligent services the information documents necessary for down our operation. it operating interception allow by no me. so other accusation really insignificant, even if they don't very sexy. they talk about not caught the pornography. all of the complexity of all the rest are insignificant. but again, but again let's, let's, let's just stop on that real quick. as you say, it's a significant and people listening at home may not understand what you mean by in significant. what they're saying is not that he had anything to do with pornography or sex or drug sales or any of that stuff. but that people, using his platform may have used it to do those things and they're going to hold him responsible for that. there's a, there's

a far cry between charging me for selling drugs and saying that i happen to live in a block where people sold drugs, right? yes, i actually to re with you and all these complicity and to one objective to twist his on to allow the intelligence services to be able to monitor everyone on the ground. and this is something that draws showed resistance for every single part of the that the pressure on and to monitor control. busy and know every single pass and using turn it around whatever they want to know, the origin, the place of the transmission of the he's that personal data, etc. so if you your show a picture of a facebook as seo. yeah. as far as the yeah. and then make that with that, and then when i'm at home, in fact, if you look at what the facebook and

a youtube and all the others they accept to cancer. and they need benefits of thousands of accounts to the request of various governments. but it can it wrong to accept it only to the need 1300 and nothing more because he can said this. anything that is on telegram is private. it is owned by the individual it. it is not him who is responsible. but any material that is deleted that is stolen, then he didn't get to the how do you, how do you? i'll let me ask you a question because i'm tussling with this myself. okay. i want to be fair. i'm a journalist and i've always been trained and when i went to the university, minnesota to study journalism and my professors ingrained in me, what are my responsibilities as a journalist? what my ethics are as a journalist about sourcing, we have specific shield laws in the united states, which tell us we are not allowed to give the government our sources. if i talk to

you in private and you tell me rick, i don't want people to know you talk to me it's, i have to protect you. that's my duty as a journalist. now, with these guys in facebook and telegram and all these other places do they're not journalist. so here's the question that i'm always tussling with, and i'm wondering how you feel about this and how people in your feel about this, to the standards that i have to uphold as a journalist, which i uphold to. and i'm very disciplined about them. so those same standards be used on these people who own facebook and twitter and all these other social media sites. what are you sick? i think it talking about the values and principles that we've lost in europe. that is the key and to, to start the not with the ceo tended ground. it started several months ago when or shut off on the line. the president of the commission came out and said, we have to controlled anything on social media to make, show that the

a you do not as a citizens of your receive, missed information, all of this information and another what they are eroding the democratic vine, you know, if you're that was, was a pin up of the civil liberties and free expression in it is now reaching a very alarming trend of also rotarians di regulation c d. all the guys i'll stick repeats and rectory 3 compliance because when you say things like what you just said, it becomes in many ways a matter of opinion. in other words, one man's threat is another man's truth. so, you know, as long as they say good things about my crown, then that's a good social media side. but the moment they criticize france and perhaps praise china or iran, that's a bad social media side. and those people need to be called to account. that's the

problem, right? the? yes, it is what they told us that the supposed to need to come back home. so the contact on on 9 platform is inside a convenient pretext to expanding stace control over digital communication. and they use digital services out rather than being a save guard against extremism or harmful material, as opposed to face a censorship to block people from saying the truth. oh, state the mind. so there is a big difference between a legitimate free of expression that is allowed by the law and this part of our constitution. and the control of who is going behind the control sending us what is wrong, what is he's a forward the and how he is selective about what we can say. what we cannot say,

i would say, i would think of, you know, i, i'm, you're an expert on french culture, much more than i am. i can tell you about the hispanic world, not the french world, but i would think that this will cause at least a discussion in france. i read that article that i found this morning and lamond, i thought it was generally fair. at least they're trying to figure it out. do you sense that there will be push back to look around doing this in, in, in your pin and more specifically in french society? well, i think you still have an idea and opinion altura, which is no longer the case. now we talked about in europe, there is a lot of talked about the riley kelly's ation about terrorism criminal activity and the headphone. uh, so for media expression and all that is to justify the restriction and exaggerating as a, to, to legitimize increasing state division into the private publication that people

have unfortunate day. we have become a state rule system. final question, how much do you think this arrest has to do with the fact that he's russia? so i don't think it's, this is important. i think what is important is to make, show that any assume uh, any user on social media has any way of communication that needs to be controlled by the states or remove completely. the fact that use rochester on to abuse perhaps, to he's exposition. this is where they going to highlight the fact that these russians, if he refuses to cooperate and i think that would go down when in the mind or people are ignorant about the reality behind it. and who are blind to stand behind the government. without questioning that destructive act in the will between ukraine and nate to against russia is fascinating. you know, and once again,

it's probably a story that we should be discussing. it's an important story. it's one we should talk about. and it's the kind of story that we talk about on the show. sadly, i can almost guarantee you, the story will barely get a mention anywhere in western media. forget about cnn. forget about nbc, forget about the abc, etc. they will generally ignore it. and if they cover it, it will be colored and it will probably be what we call in this business, a 32nd voiceover. so there you have it just thought i'd tell you the difference about what part of the world learns. and the other part doesn't get to learn it as your mind. yeah. it's always a pleasure to talk to you. thanks so much for joining us and bringing us up to date on this fascinating story. thank you for inviting me. that's our show. remember to always be looking outside as we like to say around here your own box, because crews don't live in your particular parks to through everywhere. i'm rick

sanchez. thank so much for being with us. we'll see you next to the what, the, this thing of the continental wasik. oh assembly and it's around with the rest of the world. we're going to relate to the wind in terms of donations on, in terms of trade. africa must define what she wants political africa might define ourselves. cultures. africa must define ourselves critically. the cause of your guys, no choice, but to move forward. forward. she will the

again and then has attracted congress attention from time immemorial. in the 19th century, the british empire decided to subjugate that century. the british view, the afghan lands as the northern gateway to india, and wanted to turn them into an obedient province, trying to protect the independence, see a mere of a dentist in the us to move on, turned for help the russia waste. the british considered their d o political adversary. this was the last straw for london. britain declared war on the half against you in august 18, 39. the envy it or is occupied symbol and brought their henchmen to bower. the invaders brutally suppressed any resistance thus, is telly they slaughtered all ask in man who had reached the delta pen,

raped hundreds of women, seeking to humiliate the muslims of 18. 41 general uprising against the british yoke began debris. it is under the command of general elton stone last couple and started to retreat. only a few out of the 16000 invaders who had begun their march from couple made it to the british position, at least in general about the defeat of the royal army, caused enormous damage to the prestige of the british empire throughout the world. the victory of the afghan people became the most important event in the history of the oppressed peoples resistance to the colonialist. it just failed the races. smith of the european invincibility. sense world war 2, united states as foster extremist and 2 russian prejudices and hatreds among the ukrainian, the ashcroft and at least in canada,

united states and countries in eastern europe, probably everywhere. and it doesn't matter what these groups say or do it will support them if it is the groups are causing hatred and chaos within the target country again might done choose, but it bounced great deal of the sort of you when i was one of the email myself, it just means the printer was using just $50.00. let me see, i see i use is anyone at any time if there's a religion the, the, the, [000:00:00;00]

the, the working news on, on the, the international atomic energy agency chase going to the potential to create incidence that rushes close to nuclear power plant, which is previously being targeted, fine, ukrainian leaders on tape joins raleigh behind. telegrams found the panel do off as the french government to west st over 12 criminal charges to an opponent get of persecution of 15. meanwhile, the teeth all face to kind into the ground up themselves less so open the and i think he's the pressing information about the home page 19 and 5. and finally, corruption on his platforms at the request of the us government

non french presidents and monuments. one refuses to avoid the prime minister from