the, the breaking news and distressing images from 11 to 48 people have been killed and move in 2700. the injured off the pages use bye, have a lot, exploded lebanese, especially the naming israel. meta pulls the plug on all across his platforms, off of the us, state department, the issue with a rallying cry for a world wide pressure. and that's all networks. opponents, canyon politicians say that comes as no surprise, considering washington's control over the media giants, mentally. and so it's not, it's not new. so in terms of advancing its own agenda, it's, it's, um, it's, it's,

it's one of the united states of communication, the big mazda, national, that doesn't continue to and bonds. the interest of the united states empire on the south african media review is not main thing. it's was saying dionte bond proves that circle west in freedom of speech only applies to those who oh, baby and both office plus 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 deterrent for us. top diplomats on democrats, hillary clinton suggests prosecuting americans for supporting information that washington decides to suppress the very welcome to you. this is on the international good costing why,

but from las go, as always is good to happy with us. we saw the out was breaking news from 11 on were at least 8 people have been killed and more than 2700 inches. bounce off to the pages. wireless communication devices suddenly exploded. they've been widely used by hezbollah as many of his fights as a now in hospital onto correspondent who's saying i a, there's a whoops was no. ma'am. how much there was no doubt the injuries were not limited to hezbollah members, and there are also hundreds of lebanese citizens who were targeted. there are serious injuries and reports of a doubt. the lebanese hospitals called on all workers in the health sector to respond and go to their workplaces to help contain this great disaster that hit 11 on today is that there are several areas that were affected by this incident with explosions occurring in the summer. but they room in the south and in areas of east 11 on the new and the city of stores inside of repeat. the number of injuries from one hospital to another differ, but most are reporting. they are full. also, there was a request for citizens to donate blood,

is that due to the heavy casualties and the severity of the cases? well, many medical facilities have started rapid operations to separate the bodies of the dead from the injured. there is no doubt that lebanon is facing a serious crisis, with a state of panic, taking over the hospitals and throughout the country. diesel was, let's get the latest, 8000 all across, live to. i'm literally spear or chief movie at the notion on the correspondence. johnson, and can i suppose to you, maria? i know the details are still imagining. there's been no statement from as well as yes, but 11 these officials up seemed to be openly blaming the country for this. what do we know at the moment, or hello to new to you? yes, it is indeed dramatic escalation. and the latest that we hear from 11 owns health ministries that at least a people have been killed and 2700 others injured, including 200 and critical condition following what is considered as the most

serious cyber attack and domestic coordinated strike. the target and communication devices of his below alternatives all across level in different locations of the countries of the country. pagers that according to reports were brand new that the milton crew just recently received exploded. it came just hours of to really security agencies shooting bad towns they've had prevented and assess the nation attempt on an ax senior defense official and the videos were circulating right now online, sho, bleeding people, people in bandages flooding to lebanese hospitals, tenix, priding on the street throughout the country, again in different locations, medical facilities are of course overloaded. terms of citizens are, do they say blood? we also hear reports back to investigator of a run in lebanon, was heard as a device exploded next to human from these reports. how from these reports we can understand that not only direct users of the pagers were heard, well there it is,

widely believed that it was israel who hacked the communication systems, parking explosions. officially, israel has not claims responsibility for the attack. there are no comments coming from the idea of either. we also hear that israel's national security council has urged the cabinet ministers to refrain from commenting on the attack of former advisor, a 2 prime and a solution. yahoo! the gave a hate earlier publishing a post on social media haines in the israel could be behind replying to in his really journalist who said that it's an yeah, who would not dare to attacks that but on before he comes back from the un general assembly slate to this months, the politicians pasted. it didn't say well indicating that is really prime minister . they give the order to place her home. he deleted the post and we heard from the prime minister's office later, they issued a statement saying that the former advisor is no longer working directly with the prime minister, and actually does not have any access to his really decision making circles. while

the tech comes as pensions boil at these really lebanese border where we are right now, the really officials are calling for more military reactions in the north hand for a stronger military response. let's listen to what the country's defense minister had to say. the possibility for an agreement is running out as hezbollah 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 by a military action to hear that popular frontal blueberry sion, of palestine condemned the attack saying it once deter them. while it is clear that we might expect even further escalation and even more dramatic, one, some is really media dial, speculates that within the next hour is really leadership is expecting a mess of up. let's try like, mess of tries from the liberties side. meanwhile,

northern cities continue to open ball and shelters in preparation for a possible retaliation. like here i am now in the city of kid. he got small nights right at the border with lab, but on it is situated in a kind of poor kid that is surrounded by love on, on, on 3 sides on just behind this month. it's levon on over there. so ones used to be like home to up to $25000.00 people, but now at the city as more or less a band and those thousands already left like last year and in the previous month. but those who stay there are getting ready for any scenario, putting the warranty. so although officially the full scale operation has not been authorized or, or like it hasn't been declared that it is there, it's savings. but chances are slightly faded away, but it could be avoided extra. maria,

many things for that update. let's cross the 2 of corresponding johnson and i can know you. austin is rather loving on. i've just heard of it on the brink of oil for nearly again now. is there any indication that a major conflict is a bounce where wrapped a nicky, there are a few indications which suggests the conflict will spill over to its neighboring country. loving on and the front there, of course, is that it could very well spill over to other read other countries within the region, which is a major major factor with a can with respect to the ongoing operations of these, where the government and military is conducting. in gaza, but more importantly, all one gets northern border with 11 on particularly and it's conflict against his below. we understand his the law has been issued. a statement in its 1st statement suggests the group has launched an investigation to the nature of the attacks. that's going to be something we're going to follow. lebanon's health minister suggests 8 people have been killed as a result of the attack. but so just to better understand the scale of this attack,

there are more than 2000 up to 3000 people that have been injured. some of them are children, and more than 200 of them are in critical condition. the wounded are being treated across $100.00 hospitals throughout the country. so the scale of the attack is what makes this so significant, but also the breach of security. because according to some reports, they suggest that the phones were pinged with a message to essentially gauge any person's interest or reaction. and the reasoning behind that was, it was given before the protocol to designate these devices were essentially administered, that the phone or the devices would be brought up to i level maximizing the casualties. and this is a tactic that has been used in, in, in this attack. so there are 2 alternatives that we're considering at this moment. we understand that his beloved does have certain protocols in place to ensure that if these devices are apprehended by is really military officials or intelligence officials, that they can be designated remotely. that's one aspect of it. so this attack would constitute cyber warfare. the other alternative does not constitute cyber wherever,

but it's just as alarming. this would also suggest that the devices were at any one point apprehended or they were quite in contact with is really intelligence operatives within the fields that at any one point, the supply chain may have been altered that the devices were tempered, the batteries were replaced with explosive devices, and that the were at essentially a designated at a, in a remote cell afterwards. because what we're looking at is, is not just as the law alternatives or officials that have been targeted as a result of these attacks. we understand that the iranian ambassador in lebanon is also being the target of this attack. we understand that security officials, as well as medical officials, have been targeted as a result of this attack. so it could be that the other alternative is a supply chain attack. but the one thing that is certain at this point, at least according to lebanese officials at the top, was of course carried out by israel and israel's minister of information suggest to such. let's listen to what he has to say. the lebanese government condemns these really attack the responsibility for israeli attacks long as with the international

community. so the comprehensive and elaborate answer was, of course, provided in detail. but the very brief answers, your question is, the, the approach that the is really military is taking is changing over the course of the of police the past year. we understand that the scale of the attacks had been increasing the depths of the attacks. i've also been entering closer towards in lebanese inventories. and so this attack would suggest that the strategies are changing. but one thing that has also changed over the past week, which is significant, is these really military cabinet conveying to discuss the scope as well as the strategy of the is really military. essentially what is the end goal here? and as a result of the meeting, the, the cabinet essentially suggested that the lebanese territories, at least up until the time the river in southern lebanon is going to be a significant aspect moving forward. which suggests that thing is really military is. and definitely interested in essentially carrying operations. pushing has bloss

nora further north away from its southern border with the is uh, with israel. so in that respect, we understand that that's what israel is choosing to go forward with us. when that's going to happen is a matter of that is another question, but just based on the uh, changing uh, narratives and the, and the pattern that we're witnessing over time suggest that it could be sooner rather than later. yes. and many things that thanks to by says that the correspondence sais maria, the notion on yes. and i can thank you. let's cross that live now to walk. guess kevin mitchell? easy for me. us defense department contracts. and thank you for joining us on the program. it's nice to see a 1st up i'd like to always feel initial thoughts on this unprecedented incidence. well, you know, it's, since that i don't really have initial thoughts other than it's typical to try to eliminate uh your enemy. so i think this is really,

is really intelligence uh, you know, providing these pages or getting their hands on them. i don't know how that would be. uh, you know, the big question. yeah. i mean, as the law has reportedly been using pages instead of mobile phones because the much all the devices are supposed to be hard at the hack. what do you make of that? well, i think it's a possibility because as we recall there's been some attacks using people cell phones as well. and also the cellphones can be tracked. so you use the older devices there. you know, are raf radio frequency so they're much harder to track then the mobile telephone is, are, according to summer pull is one of those pages when, when mostly signal to the same time to make sure that people have them in the hands when they exploded some of the victims, so to be children and of course, you know,

doctors commonly use pages as well. how do i was your response to that? you know, i, and again, you know, they've got a phone number tied to them. they've got a serial numbers. it's how they're identified over the network. so, you know, it's hard for any one carry and one of these pagers to know who's actually carrying us though, just because it does a number assigned to it or it's a n i. d doesn't mean that the person that was sold to or given to is actually carried up. a lot of parents will take a pager and give it to their child so they can contact them, or they get 3 or 4 of them in their various family members who will have them. so it's a pretty crude way of dealing with such activities. let's talk about whether it's publication could lead because we know israel has been threatening for months

to invade 11 on an deal with. has the same way as being doing with him asked and garza, do you think that such a large scale unprecedented electronic wolf as stripe. like this one could actually signal the start of an invasion. it could, you know, like your reporter said it couldn't be to drive his bowl of back from the borders which opens the opportunity for them to go into the lab and not. and it, yeah, they have to work on, you know, not having to front or is going on right on the as rarely borders. so it would be a good technique to do that. but it will also enrage the lebanese people. and this is something that we've been talking about for almost a year now, whether is well, can even afford to find the on 2 fronts at the same time as well. in my opinion,

no, they cannot, unless the u. s. continues send in the more a now it's in the election year in the us. we have all these politicians saying, well, we support is real, but we can't allow them to do attacks against civilians. yep. they're still providing the weapons that are being used to do it. so it's kind of a hypocritical statement by the us saying they won't support them. and of course, regardless of which uh, you know, candidate wins the us, the elections. they both support the continued funding of israel, so you know, i don't see where this is going to stop at this point just because it's in the election year in the us. me money, thanks for speaking to us today. it's very nice to see you, kevin mitchell, easy for me. us defense department contracts. i think you yeah. the,

the us government is out to get us on logs like a bug is happy to applies hayes mess of platforms of joint washington's crusade against on networks trusting, goes down across facebook and instagram. well, this comes off to the state department code for a weld, one of russian state media alleged election medley, and meta is obedient needs having the line. after careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against russians. the media outlets receives the gordon there are z and other related, and these are now banned from our apps globally for, for an interference activity. the earlier today, just hours before instagram on facebook pages with taken down mess as policy details. well, unexpectedly old says, this comes to 2 months also the previous update, however, changes to the tons had previously,

i could only once every 2 years. and this was surprised at the latest amendments came also, the old is with pass down for the us state department as all tease marina called the river, explains. 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 and the sanctions that they announced. but we've known about the legs between the 2. it's 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 for see how this all started. the united states, united kingdom and canada, are launching a launching a joints diplomatic campaign to rally allies and partners around the world to join us in addressing the threat posed by r. t, and other machinery of russian just information and corporate influence. each government, of course, is going to decide how it responds to this threat. but we are, is every,

every partner to start by treating or these activities as they do other intelligence activities by russia within their borders 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 band. so if you were, for example, in 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 completely 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 metal 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 so fine you said he is going along with exactly, and this is what we do here on this triangle. every time a whistleblower comes up or, or news comes out that this is what they're doing. we'll 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 conference in 2021. senior officials from the bike administration, including the white house, repeatedly press, star teams for months to assessor certain call, read 19 content, including humor, and said 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 been talking about it. we've had all the people, all the whistle blowers that reveal just how and better they are across own networks in the us, which brought 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 the pentagon 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 daddy

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 but right now are feeling like they're there, they're there which and because they gave the state department and they gave it by and 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 is that the us state department doesn't like our t, like the side 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 leading us 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. also you said a tour and cheese margarita, simon yon has commented on the situation saying the bond is no surprise to anyone

since mess up always serves the us state department. and the ben was entirely to be expected. but the abrupt shut down of our accounts and those things book and instagram, along with those ca, inventor, ventilation masquerading is information platforms was no surprise. i wouldn't my teeth and tongue down from saying they should never been allowed into russia. from the moment they were permitted in, they should have been expelled, as these are merely as the left heel of american intelligence agencies and what is often called the american deep state of the deep state represented by its front in the same department is labeled us as the world's dom spies and america's primary fellows. something i generally appreciate, as well as the cure reason. the world is not uniformly support. ukraine is the primary reason they believe the international isolation. oppression has failed. and why numerous countries either remain neutral or open lead that crush out via the in body of our t. i'm that they may have close get another door in us, but we'll find another entrance, a window, or even

a crack on the floor. will continue our work. no matter what bus to all be, can you and call me this policy book. i know they say samantha is being used as a tool to promote to us a gemini. it was, it's important to us knowledge that incentive about the platform dimensions of the phone is not in utah time. so it's also drives the interest of the united states empire and united states imperialism from time to time. have used its domain on leverage on the, on the part of information to drive its own and not a deuce and insights money tendencies. you know, on the, on the global level. so the money mobile turn into bad, out feeds. uh that so what's up to lead to like the pollution that remains to democratize information, chatting on and that was one. so, you know,

that meant to platforms including facebook has been cutting itself on. but they only talk about the freedom of the press as long as that the normal get passed by the united states. and it is um, and things the, the wind seems to be the, the end of the cornwall and the united states. you know, that sort of degrading that there was a bit of them that quoted will be able to use the leverage in terms of information . and this information on the wall is now when seamlessly being to land. 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 since do the submit this, it, disseminated. this is actually dictatorship of, uh, you know, through a lot of them spend to actually create the sides and then nodded to that. one idea is more popular than to add them or to create a ton amongst out on indian beams out of um, i know ways bit by some. so this is a sort of them what you bit of the mentor platform. the washington suppression has,

sorry, fall, failed to convince many major powers. india is one example which is reportedly refusing to back to us according to new delhi officials close it by the me. the other country doesn't support unilateral messes without un approval as well. the american envoy and the indian capital set out in the governments of the united states, the 1st 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 well following the news of methods bound on all to the south africa media review organization on the line that western freedom of speech is applicable only as an outlet stones fits the convenient 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 met a banding 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 decision to band rushing me to office a little in the other media office is a serious one. and my soul is be subject to a high degree or which city. and in this case, particularly the is no such scrutiny, but we do know that to me it says, 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 control business for us from his handling of the use of data traits. roland, spreading misinformation in this information so that's okay. so not so long ago.

the cried mix of platforms that i still flooded with fake news and misinformation, especially leading up to the election. we saw at that time of free speech advocacy group finding a request, asking me a tough to disclose information about to the selected identified during the elections. the dates had committed and the misses it took to mitigate misinformation across all its platforms. but mit denied the request of all giving that to as a u. s. based company, it is not subject to set as it can do, have a listen to this matter and as a goal peroration organized and existing under the loss 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 resurfaced remit to face the whole set top it was the ration fund for

victims of the 2 great 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 if you'll p at the time said this mentos, facebook became a wash with content. and citing by this and advocating hatred needing to the dates in the country. as of that was not enough very recent each night to directly to mid to what a mess the funds of about $220000000.00 that you had received. that mid has repeatedly violated in states of protection commission laws including denying nigerians the right to solve dissemination and saving off nigerians personal data. at the time that you have is made it clear that the fine wasn't just a slap on the wrist. if it's a mistake, that's even big tip companies like mid, tough calling to get no local news if it's a zip. nice area if you'll pat and so that's the time many of the african countries are saying you might be a global science, but in our back yard,

if you pay by our rules. and the more concerned you problem is that to me, it just seems to be bolding and unpleasant patching on the african continent. and right now, what's this decision? mid is confirming what is known about at the political bias in wisdom social media platforms. because this now is being interpreted as an efforts to suppress alternative viewpoints like it has done of the african country. south african investigative journalist madiba madiba told us the us is the right time to buy all these influence on the african continent and pulling every street and get can count it coming to town. so the impacts the mid size bogged down to, to present from the big brother in america. you know, i think these are just another example of the west and a body of them tried to shut down their opponents of which they did not necessarily agree with. but an apple for me, it's just a set day for the, for the media space and it's a set date for freedom.