what for most schools conflict with ukraine, and that of course, as the by the net ministration looks to stop and it's tools aimed at coping moscow ad. very important to note as well. this is happening as the u. s. national security advisor jake sullivan is meeting over a couple of days in china. and those folks are expected to be quite intense, especially with these sanctions now becoming a big issue. but 3, who has not directly criticized the united states for imposing sanctions on chinese entities. but he has cooled the sanctions illegal. a particular country is using the crisis to shift the blame in an attempt to fabricate the so called china responsibility theory. and threatens countries that have normal economic and trade ties with russia with illegal and unilateral sanctions. china is peace proposal has received a positive response from over a 110 countries. so last week i has endorsed proposed both map before resolving the

conflict between russia and ukraine. and pretoria says it is prepared to work with the countries involved to promote the plan even for the south africa appreciates the shuttle diplomacy. china has carried out and released the countries of the global south shooting, haunts co operation to make a fair and just bois in the international community and create conditions for promoting the cooling down of the situation and the ultimate realization of peace. now as time the cost for more countries to endorse this piece, plan available, sol. so countries off already part of those countries already placing, if it's a global piece, but in the all those who are preventing all of this from happening. and those are the countries that have an interest in fuel in gold conflicts. so it remains to be seen how exactly wisdom countries will react to even respond to this quote. i say it was r t international have next on direct impact. rick sanchez looked at the rest of hovel dropping off highlights the western censorship. biased the

rick sanchez here. this is direct impact and this is what we are going to be talking about. i will ensure america always has the strongest mosley for fighting force in the world. we so wow, did you catch come away or is it the dnc? she delivered by far, one of the most neal conservative, most yeah, hawkish, speeches, ever, water we make of this. i'm rick sanchez. let's do this. the the, we begin today with an arrest that seems to smack and this is a global thing. seems to smack of government interference of free speech as well as

a possible assault on privacy puddle, dirt. rob has been arrested. z is the founder of the social media sites and digital platforms. tele graham, there is, you see him see it's used by more than a 1000000000 people around the world. this is getting really big. he was arrested over the weekend in france. the charge failure to moderate what people say and do on the telegram platform, or at 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 the 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 well, absolutely, guidelines to make sure the social media and digital platforms are used for harm. for example, i get it. that's fair. if that plan isn't 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 telegram. here's the headline in that one. if you want to see it, rush up tried to shot around telegram they did so because much of the material on telegram was very critical of brochure. and in fact, durham was critical of russian president vladimir put. and so yeah, i get 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 uh, russia didn't arrest this guy. you know what i mean? they didn't arrestin. now telegram is used by the way, by millions of russians and 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. look at this, the look at these um pictures i found to share with you many social media sides

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 wind in 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 search over the top as you look at the story developed. well, we should point out that according to the officials at telegram base, 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. and 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, 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 parcels. 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 going 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, anytime you get on your phone, were giving access to the c i a or whoever. uh so, so they can listen to your call, just wanted let you know, but 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,

and likely going to boost their lead over mr. trump, even more so. but many are still talking about cala harris's saber rattling neo connor's speech. and wondering when did the democrats become so hawkish? so blood, there's the more 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. leave full 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 happened 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 a vice president harris sounding like a cross between? oh, i don't know john wayne and john bolton. it's 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 tone 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 d and c. 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 this or that, the other thing and promoting their values and what are their values? traditional rewards units, what are the traditional more strips? 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 d n. c, a by mainstream media and ad works, maintain a near perfect embargo on interviews with me earning and his 10 month presidential campaign, and 1992 raj for ro gave a 34 interviews. i'm industry networks. in contrast, during the 16 model 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 his 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 announce is among the many things he's going to do is he's going to grade 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? a yeah, real quick rick. let's unpack this clause. i quitting as you put his claws,

i 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 them 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 was laying the groundwork as well. so i think this is gonna 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 if there's anybody else, but they really smeared on things like that. he found a bear once and 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 problems 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. the, the the, the, [000:00:00;00] the

the, 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 on his platform which to my mind and maybe i'm wrong. we're going to bring in a guess to talk about this. now. it 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, a device. and any company that owns a communication device, so then 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 uh, 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 they might have to be there for 20 years of what 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 action. the influence of spies and the prosperity of the did not send that they come out, 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 is one of the most significant reason why who was arrested is the 2nd one because he has refused to communicate at the request of the local authorities, which ends escaped all the intelligent services the information documents necessary for 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. they're there. 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 this complicity aim 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 kind of drawn whatever they want to know, the origin, the place of the transmission of the he said, personal data, etc. so if you your show a picture of a facebook as seo. yeah. as far as the yeah. and then made up 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 ben, this of thousands of accounts to the request of various governments. but kind of ground accepted only to the need. 1300 and nothing more because he can. so 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 audio. how do you, i'll how let me ask you

a question because i'm personally 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 tele graham 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 of telegraph. 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's why this was the pin up of the civil liberties and free expression in it is now reaching a very low mean trend of also rotarians di regulation c d. all the guys

i'll see could 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? yes, it is what they tell us that the suppose do. i need to come back home for the context on online platform. it's inside a convenient pre, thanks to expanding stace control over digital communication. and they use digits and services out rather than being a save guard against extremism, awful material, as opposed to face of censorship to block people from saying the truth. oh,

state the mind. so there is a big difference between and legitimate, free author, expression that is allowed by the law and this part of our constitution. and the control of all 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 lamont, 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 opinion 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 rodney kennedy's ation about the territories in criminal activity and the headphone uh, social media extraction. and all that a, to justify the restriction and exaggerating as a, to, to legitimize increasing states and divisions into the private publication that people have unfortunate day. we have become a state road 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 sure that any consumer, oh, any use or also to media has any way of communication that needs to be controlled by the states or remove completely. the fact that he's rough time it come from used perhaps to he's

a physician. this is where they going to highlight the fact that these russians, if he refuses to collaborate and i think that would go down, was in the minds of people who are ignorant about the reality behind it. and who are blinding to stand behind the government without questioning that destructive act in the war between ukraine and nate to against russia? is this 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 voice over. 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 allows your mind, you're 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 groups don't live in your particular parks through, through everywhere. i'm re sanchez, thank so much for being with us. we'll see you next to the north atlantic treaty organization is celebrating its 75th anniversary in washington. this week, for many in the west,

nato is deemed to be the most successful military alliance of history. for others. beyond the west, nato is the most serious security threat to humanity. today the, the international atomic energy agency j barnes of a potential nuclear incident that rushes course to nuclear power plants, which has previously been targeted by your premium forces world leaders and the tech science rally behind the telegram founder pub. older up, as the french government arrest them for 12 criminal charges summer, calling it a persecution of the people. meanwhile, the chief of police forget the instagram drops and tom shall letter openly admitting some suppressing information about until the 19th and the fight and found the corruption on his platform at the request of the us government.