the, the the breaking news 100, the injured in love and off the pages wisely. humans, why hezbollah fontaine is the exploded of alleged so i the will says price point is where the meta pulls the plug on. all the upfront is possible to the us state department issues, a rallying cry for a wells wide suppression of our network. a permanent tenured politicians say that comes as no surprise, considering washington's control over the media. john med died, so it's not, it's not news. so in terms of advancing time, it's on the agenda. it's a, it's, it's, it's one of the united states,

limitations and big multinational continued to advance the interest of the united states empire. and the south african media review is not main thing is, was saying beyond a bound frame is so called western freedom of speech. only applies to those who say they are both often. plus, they also think there are americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda and whether they should be civilly or even in some cases, criminal a charge is something that would be a better deterrence. when we us talked diplomats on democrats, hillary clinton suggests prosecute, think americans are spreading information to washington decides to suppress the very will welcome to you. this is all to international broadcasting to you live

from last good. it's good to have you with us. we started the out with breaking news from lebanon, where hundreds of people have been injured off to the pages wireless communication device is something exploded. they've been widely used by hezbollah and many of his fights as a now in hospital looking for us live to middle east bureau chief marie of the notion of on the correspondent. yes. and i can for more details now, i suppose to marie and out the details is still emerging. and there's been no statement from israel as yet, but some of suspecting that this was a large scale electronic wolf strike. what do we know? what the balance well hello to nikki. 8 we know that hundreds and some is an estimate that over a 1000 people have been injured in lab one on as a result of what is viewed as the most serious cyber attack. but targeted communication devices, all of his been the operative pager, is that according to reports were brand new. that's the milton group has just received,

exploded all across the country and in pain. our ass off to is really seeing that the countries security agency announced it's sold to 10 assess the nation of time on an ex senior defense official. the video is now circulating a line show, leaving man and people in bandages flooding to lebanese hospital. some of the ones that are now in critical condition. so the das toll mites rise, of course, and the citizens are now advised to donate the blog medical facilities. our whole course overloaded. we are also here in the reports, but the best of the all iran in loveland on was her as a device exploded next to him. but this information is hard to be verified right now. yes. who is behind this attack? although it is widely believed that it was israel who infiltrated the communication system of individual devices and the to native them, especially israel has not taking any responsibility for the attack. no cummins coming from the idea of either and we'll see here that hayes rose national security

council has heard the cabinet ministers to refrain from commenting on the attack in lab on this comes as the exchange of fire on the board. the between these will elaborate on becomes more and more frequent. the situation has been escalating recently, of course is really officials how now calling for evans stronger military reactions, stronger military or response to the north of the country that's they can listen to what the country's defense minister has to say. the possibility for an agreement is running out as has beloved continues to tie itself to home us and refuses to end the conflict. therefore, the only way left to ensure the return of israel's northern communities to their homes will be via military action. meanwhile, northern citizen and israel continued to own, put open bomb shelters in preparation for a possible retaliation. like here, now i am in the city of kitty actual na hit is situated in kind of pockets

surrounded by 11 on 3 sides. so 11 is just behind this month over there. once home to 25000 people, it stays abandoned right now is thousands. have already left to like since his beloved joins have moss last year or how and but there are still people staying here and they are getting ready for anything. they're expecting more attacks from lebanese side, but those who left, they say they can stay away for a little bit longer to allow the army to do the job and they made the war. although officially the full scale operation has not been authorized or announced. it seems that in the 10s of fate in a way that it could be actually avoided here and as well as note back to you, maria. many things about less crossover to correspond to me. yes. and i can now, yes and good to see you. so we know that is well 11 and have been on the brink of a rule for nearly a year. now. is there any indication of that but a major conflict is about to erupt.

nicky that would be safe to say, but there are a number of different reasons as to why that could be the case. first and foremost, this attack is a concerning one because his beloved representatives issued a statement early on, suggesting that this is the largest attack that the is ready military or government has portrayed since the start of this conflict almost a year ago. but what we're looking at is, of course, a number of different alternatives. the 1st alternative is an initial report suggest that the device is these pagers and some mobile devices were set to self destruct as a resorts of self defense or self security by the, by the group 11 on, we understand that these pagers and mobile devices were paying to be for the protocol to designate them it was administered and that was to maximize the casualties and ensure that a death was of course provided as a results. but others reports suggested that the case might not just be as simple

as a cyber warfare attack. some suggest that the alternative is that the supply chain that was attacked and this is of course troubling in a number of different reasons and different ways. a supply chain to tax adjust that is really intelligence at one point or another had access to these devices before they were distributed among as the law officials, as well as representatives as well. they're there as well as their field agents with suggests that they're there. there is a security to for deficit somewhere to be address. now i reached out to some of my local contacts. some contacts who have connections with his will offer a comment, and for the most part, the communication seem to be close. there seems to be a strategic blackouts, of course. and the safest option to suggest or this contemplate here is that is for security reasons, but we're waiting to hear more from the his boss side. similarly to hear more from things really started because we understand that israel is taking a different approach that has the law. we understand that over the past week, these really ministry of the cabinets of the military cabinet as well convened to ensure what the strategic outcome of the uh is,

where the government and these really means military would be. and that suggests that the scope of israel's military strategy does now include, has a lot, it includes parts of lebanon. we understand that the general understanding behind these are the military. and the strategy will include that the is really military will conduct operations up to the tiny river. and this is going to be an interesting developments to see how these developments, of course, conclude what that means, whether it's real, to continue with a different assault. whether they will expand is going to be a matter of great concern, but we can see that the is really military is changing its tactics. and that means that these below will have to adjust, moving forward, which is concerning for the region as a whole. thank you. yes and thank you for staying across this forest and supposed to have a correspondence semester. and then we have an ocean on yes, and i can thank you for now. the. let's cost live to estimate and carrillo header of news on the cradle and media outlets. thank you for joining us in the program is very good to see a 1st up. what do you make of this unprecedented incident?

we've got hundreds of mobile devices exploded into the same times that for no apparent reason how is this technically possible to orchestral the question that still remains at this point you have at least at least 1200 people injured. the majority of them, uh, as well. uh, members, and um, you know, these are supposed to be one of the most secure, or the one of the most secure communication methods, or fighters to communicate. remember that in february, the secretary general office brought up all the fighters to drop the throw away their phones. there's smartphones telling them this is how they trifles these holidays by on us. maybe it was a few weeks after they had that back up in the southern support, a suburb of 8 with the roots like israel killed the mice liter eh, but now you have these, these joint attack is completely unprecedented, completely unheard. all the information is field trip coming up slowly. there is no that there. we have absolutely no idea if these devices were manipulated before.

huh. maybe explosives planted if, if there was a hack inside their system because they're buying batteries, to overheat and explode the fact that you don't happen on once. he's also, it's really, really beyond anything we have seen before. i think it also affects the question of how it, how the wheel and how can is ball or retaliate to one of these 90. because again, at least 1200 people injured several of their across the entire country. you know, and this is not a regular military attack, this is not a nurse, right? this is not actually a cross border shelving. this is know that ground classes. this is something a completely different that uh, i think he's going to have to we're going to be hearing about it for days, 4 weeks. a deal of the information comes out. and he's always gonna have to essentially go back to square one in terms of other communications. yeah, we've, we've seen some of the pictures on, on screens now is look absolutely horrific. i,

according to some reports, all of those pages were remotely signals at the same time to make sure the people have them in the hands when they exploded. some of the victims of said to be children, a mazda us, but was, of course, doctors use pages as well. what's your reaction to that or? well, you know, i guess i, when it comes to these really bad things we, we already know that there is no red line. there is no limits to, to what they do, who they will parts. usually you just need to look at a gas a to understand that this is their, their, their long standing position. and as far as we have heard, these are ours. you said your models of these days, or that were upon be distributed to, to hezbollah fighters across the country and you know, beat and to, to, to protect them. i guess from being tracked by as well for being spied on a seems a cure was much worse than that. he sees, sadly, and now i'm into my knees, health ministry, and then he said he turn security forces are warning. anyone who may have

a page or because, you know, you said book there's use these days, this is not an exclusive off of 11 these resistance. they're being warranted to do that all the way to keep them away from anybody to be, you know, some older it's not of the inside uh inside uh, cabinets um they dickerson a house on fire, etc. you know, as you said, children were injured. so again, these brings me back to how kind of, how we are, as well as with all the it or, or response of these. i mean this is the concern is, is that this is the spock, that's it. that says something big guy is coming, and i as well as we know, has been threatening for months to invade lebanon, and deal with has been of the same way he's been doing with him. austin garza, do you think they set large scale 8 or 20? will fest, like is actually the signal at the start of an invasion. it could be, it could very well be because at this point you don't really know how many mollified work without a commission. you would hope that those on the frontlines and well, we're not in possession of these majors at the time of the explosion. but uh,

one thing that is worth noting is that those last night, they rarely security cabinet meant to include and the safe return of these rarely centers to the north. as one of the big wars main balls, fried one of the via these wars main goal is, is to eradicate. i'm asked for example, not one of the walls is to make sure that'd be said. there is over a 100000 of them who have been forced out of the north of israel to return safely. what does that mean? that means pushing against as well. so these good very well, it'd be the 1st shot that they shot across the valley. even a of a larger conflict we, we still have with the weight on seats. we have heard that even the fighters in syria were injured. we, as i said with this is going to fix on baby is going to pick some weeks to actually bars through any the through all the information. but i think patients are about to reach a fever beach. well, there's always been this question though, has in there the policy of whether is well, can act. we've sold to fight on 2 fronts at the same time or

yeah, is exactly that. so, you know, maybe this is, this is one of the things are, as i said, that got some a few biters out of commission so that it becomes a be easier for them because each old thing gossip has not achieved their war. of all, they have basically made this free, they have flap, and they, they have fuel tens of thousands of people. but how mazda are the policy, and as long as you have, they're actually rehabilitating the forces. they are, we have anything the forces out a faster rate, and these are all these taking them out. and uh, as far as, cuz ball that goes there are big or 4 is much stronger, much better for a garden march, better equipped. so these are all cannot afford the lead, surely their, their army is not capable. dave farmer, almost amount of these really army earlier this week or automobile opinion is for one, a human newspaper saying that i use ro is incapable of defeating his ball up. and that, uh, what nathan, jacqueline defense minister you are calling and others are saying about live on, on, is alive and will bring the end of these robots. you know, we have

a hearing this morning for a few years now and more intensely over the past several months. and i think they, they keep falling on the years. and this time is just really seems like these are all has no way out because somebody is running perspective, they really have no way out because the nor today it's completely depopulated. they need to have their centers back. and that only means an outcome of positive outcomes. but let me know where we have. let's see how things on the phone when they find speaking to us today is where they get to see you. esther bond to with the head of news at the cradle media out there. thank you. the, the us government is out. so guesses on model is that the bug is happy to oblige his method platforms have joined washington. his crusade against all networks i think, is down across facebook and instagram. but this comes off of the state department code for a world wide bond of rush and state media alleged and election modeling. and meta is obedient. the time line. after careful consideration,

we expanded our ongoing enforcement against russians. the media outlets versus the gardner r c and other related. and these are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity. earlier today, just hours before our instagram and facebook pages with taken down, mess has policy details will unexpectedly alter. this comes just 2 months after the previous update. however, changes to the terms have previously a code only once every 2 years. let's find out more. we joined by correspond to marina cause a revised studio. marina, thank you for coming in. so we spent only a few days since the bonded administration stopped functions on the, on the, you know, mess it has followed see whether it's done. it seems they couldn't make that ties and he will of us really of course. and it's hardly surprising that of course we saw not doing this just literally a couple of days after the announcement by the us state department in the sanctions that they announced. what we've known about the links between the 2 has been very

well documented from former c i a and f b i. agents working there to direct calls for censorship, which we'll get to in the 2nd. but let's 1st see how this all started. russian represent this information to subvert and polarized screen of the societies extends to every part of the world and response. today, united states, united kingdom and canada, are launching a, launching a joints diplomat of campaign to riley allies and partners around the world to join us in addressing the threat posed by r, t, and other machinery of russian. this information and corporate influence each government, of course, is going to decide how it responds to this uh threat. but we are every, every partner to start by treating ortiz activities as they do other intelligence activities by russia within their borders. a and a couple of days right after that and that i moved and of course deleted all of our content before it was a shadow bad. so if you were, for example,

and countries other than you are other than the united states, you could access it even in those countries using a vpn. but now there's nothing to access the content has been completed, deleted, and one could argue, you don't like us find band that in your own country, even though it's a social media platform. but what jurisdiction do you have over africa? or for example, countries like a brazil india. it's a social media platform. it should be up to the social media itself. but this is not what we're seeing here. and again, washington is basically telling americans and europeans what they can and cannot watch. so at the same time when the world is watching or reading meta websites or social media platforms, they need to understand that what they're seeing there is basically washington's version of what is happening, which is of course, not necessarily the truth of. let's talk about monks that the bug cuz his platforms have previously done the bidding for the american government. he even admitted it himself, but he's then said as some concept that they asked him to. so it was anyone really surprised that he is going along with exactly,

and this is what we do here on this child. every time a whistleblower comes up or, or news comes out that this is what they're doing. would talk about it, which is exactly why washington doesn't like this channel and wants to shut down archie as well as other news networks. and what they're doing is making sure that the voices are in heard with mark soccer berg. just now. he's admitted that he actually regrets, so coming to a government pressure sensor and confidence in in 2021, senior officials from the biden administration, including the white house, repeatedly press star teams for months to assessor certain coffee, 19 content, including humor, and so tar and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree, i believe the government pressure was wrong, and i regret that we were not more outspoken about it. and of course it's not just covered related. it's not exclusive to facebook or instagram meta. we've seen this on other platforms as well. so what it shows you that again, this is what's happening and it's not just,

i'm talking about it. we've had all the people, all the whistle blowers that reveal just how and better they are across all networks in the us, which spread their message around the world. here's more facebook is totally dependent on the us state department, the, the set, the intelligence services and, and to some extent, that the long range strength of dependent, gone to protect facebook data monopolies to protect its advertising revenue to protect it from laws like the digital markets act and digital services act the which is so, and then this is come out as well. and i was at the state department when i was called bikes, 9 google lobby, as you know, told me that the, that the, the number one threat to google is business model over the next 5 years is the digital markets act and digital services act. they need the protection of big data, the state department for favors for their profits. and so they play ball with the state department, censorship demands in order to preserve that,

but they are under the barrel of it. and people like mark soccer bird right now are feeling like they're there, they're there which and because they gave the state department and they gave the body ministration. everything they asked for in terms of censorship demands and they're still being bullied by them. because it's their way or their highway there is no in between. and again, one of the main reasons that the us state department doesn't like archie like the sub is because we are apparently she popular and they're losing support for the ukrainian effort. and instead of accepting that as reality, that people can have different opinions and maybe more people are deciding with vol show right now. know what they're doing is delete enough to make sure that our voices are in the heard. but of course, this is 2024 and people can get their information in many different ways. of course, maureen, how many, thanks for coming in with that story. marina cause her all of us to all the can you and call me this policy book. i know they say is messer, is being used as a tool to promote the usaa gemini. it was is important to us

knowledge that sound about the platform. the mentor at phone is not in utah time. it's also drives the interest of the united states empire. and the united states imperialism from time to time, have used each domain on leverage on um, uh, on the bottom of information to drive its own. not a deuce and insights monique tendencies, you know, on the, on the global level. so the money mobile turn into the out feeds. uh that was up to lead to like and then pollution, not a means to democratize information and shattering lights on. and that was one. so, you know, the mentor platforms, including facebook, has been cutting itself on, but they only talk about the freedom of the price as long as then, the normal defense payables in the united states, imperialism, and things. the,

the one seems to be the end of the cornwall and the united states. you know, that sort of degrading that. there was a beat of the quoted will be able to use the leverage in terms of information. and this information on the wall is now when seamlessly being gently. and that is why you see such an option. it's like trying to, you know, bond sutton, media outlets tried to control how information says do the, submit this, it, disseminated. this is actually dictatorship of, uh, you know, to spend to actually create the plus side and, and added to that one idea is more popular than the add them or to clips on, amongst our, on india meetings out of an otherwise bit lesson. so this is a sort of them what you bit of the mentor platform of washington's pressure has a fall failed to convince many major powers. india is one example which has reportedly refusing to back the us according to new delhi officials close it by the media. the country doesn't support you to launch what we messes without un approval,

is what the american envoy and the indian capital had said earlier. the governments of the united states defers to the government of india and the governments of other countries to make their own determination of and accreditation procedures for these entities. the us would welcome all countries and taking similar actions as the united states government has joining us from new delhi now is historian and also a downtime, a chain tamani many things, but you want to get on the program. it's very nice to see today. so as we know, aussie has recently attracted a huge number of significant number of viewers across the global south. and especially in india to what extent of people's rights to take part in all networks . social media activities now being infringed upon by meta and i think this decision on where to start up is just a strange. and interestingly us goes to don't say that it's junk getting free

speech everywhere. and the big ones that are wooden based, and i'm actually on the order. but this step just contradicts start up. i was hearing your terminal and then everybody knows that a few few days ago mark is a couple of came out and said that how of the advertiser conformation during the cord time to me as are the rumors about uh, youtube and all of them are dropped platforms trying to suppress information about the, the, the democratic party, or if it's negative and you don't highlight information about president trump if it's there to. so if you look at that from the point of view, i think going, what is very interesting is that there was a reason silver done. did us the most modern servers because of the population center, social media platforms over trying to keep information from them. and they were trying their, they were putting a partial information on there. so i think this is a very,

very big indicator of how freedom of speech is selectively being used and selectively being promoted as long as you don't agree to work. in this case, the us government has to say others and so you so that, that speaks up. i mean that's, that's just those people beginning to washington seems to think that all that work is spreading. this information a meddling in this is us presidential election. i mean, what do you make of those claims to see, i don't have to make it look too far because if it's like a book comes out and says that certain information was being returned. so on the dignity off, what did it using off the board or so i don't know how of selective freedom of speech works for the us because i mean if you look at it, this is, this is not just the piece increase in cost. if you keep information from people for a,

for reasons best to do you like the example that comes to my mind is what happened in the united kingdom and doctor how from the late nineties to up to the mit or the frontier grantee for for disease. oh, there was the doctor, i'm sick, standing there or more than 1400 children will be good and that will guarantee all putting out that everybody and you'll just information. that's what the rest is lower later. sure. or just because people are local. so if the, if the city office or nationality, the information was not sure. so isn't the same thing being done. you keeping information from people because you think that it does not read for the standards that you're searching. so all, i think people are smart enough. people, people understand and like you said, this is the 21st century smart just you're willing to go to information from one source, or we need to get it from different sources. so it's not like the print is evident from people. it's just that you want to present a different site or you want to, you don't think that a little bit. so i think dr. do this choose on the other foot right now. as far as

the united states goes back to saying very clearly that the pressure is not shared and permission speaks volumes. i think the more frequently people, his voice is a bank silence. the more other people are waking up to what was happening when he, thanks for speaking to us, today's really good to hear from you historian and all the gumption tamani. thank you so much. well, following the news of messrs ban on the south african media review organization on the lines, the western freedom of speech is a clickable only if an outlet stance fits the convenience narrative, the media review network condemns the brazen violations of press freedom by meta the parent company of whatsapp, facebook and instagram, the self proclaimed bastions of free speech and freedom of expression, have chosen to use social media outlets to play geo politics against russia. freedom of the price is only applicable in the west if one chooses to maintain service to the forces of empire metal banning of

r t and others as testament to this fact, freedom of the press has always been a missed. the media review network is off the view that the decisions depend russian we document sort of any other media office is a serious one, and my soul is be subject to a high degree of which city. and in this case, particularly that is no such scrutiny. but we do know that to me, it has policies and practices, have long silence voices that do not reflect the values and the belief of the west africa for us to submit to has been at the center of numerous contrivances for us from his handling. often use a data treats roland, spreading misinformation and this information, so that's okay. so not so long ago the cried mix has platforms that i still flooded with fake news and misinformation. a space should be leading up to the election. we saw at that time is the speech advocacy group finding a request, asking me a tough to disclose information about the certificate identified during the

elections. the dates had permit said at the misses it took to mitigate misinformation across all its platforms, but mitchell had denied the request of all giving that to as a u. s. based company, it is not subject to said i have to, can do, have a listen to this matter. and as a goal peroration organized and existing under the laws of delaware in the united states of america. and does not have a legal presence in south africa, according the metal ink is not subject to the promotion of access to information act. so on the african continent and the as a case as re surface remit to face the whole set top it was the ration, find the victims of the $23.00 walls which faced the book, a field feeding to over 600000 dips. and the displacement of millions across the field. yes, the amnesty international group in hit the o. p at the time said this mentos facebook became a wash. would con.