[000:00:00;00] the, [000:00:00;00] the distressing images from 11 on where at least 11 people had been killed and 4000 injured after pagers used by hezbollah exploded lebanese officials and the militant group are blaming israel. meta pulls the flag on our t across its platforms. after the us state department issues a rallying cry for a world wide suppression of our networks, a prominent kenyon, politician says it comes as no surprise,

considering washington's control over the media giants, midnight. so it's not it's, it's not new. so i'm in terms of advancing. it's on the agenda it's, it's, um, it's, it's, it's one of the united states of conglomeration. it's a big multinational that done pointing into advance the interest of the united states empire. and the south african media review is not missing its words saying the r t band proves that so called western freedom of speech only applies to those to pay the oval office the from our headquarters in moscow. i'm rachel ruble. you are watching r t international. we start with breaking news from 11 on where at least 11 people have been killed and 4000 injured after their pagers suddenly exploded. the wireless communication devices have been widely used by hezbollah and many of its fighters were victims of the attack. remedies officials and the militant group are

blaming israel. freelance journalist, all a homeless provides more insight into the situation there. the immediate aftermath of the spelling of ours finding the su 4 is very limited period before everybody in sight is they're all an attempt to make the same art. this is and also provide as much assistance to the wounded as possible. uh, the lead state of health as well as all this through t rex system account for you. uh i was doing side by side, the weekends and their properties and this friday and start in st. louis costs ads, as well as medical assistance on the field spend within hospitals. everybody was rich, all citizens was actually building multiple bike donation stations, multiple hospitals helping there. and uh and uh, or even uh,

prepare such an additional 10 stations to be able to house and take care of that. as we said, uh some people could be more still making dates on this matter. major european airlines have to temporarily suspended flights to israel and due to the deteriorating security situation in the region. our case, middle east, we are a chief maria from ocean and correspondence. yes. and i can and use of to law. they bring us the latest updates on the attack. especially israel hasn't claims responsibility. there are no comments coming from the idea of either these really arm is literally silent. and we also hear the, israel's national security council has called on his really ministers to refrain from commenting on via tag. as a result, nothing coming from is really politicians either pull, the attack comes, has pensions boil at stays really lebanese border where we are right now. is really officials more and more often make it clear that

a stronger military response is coming from is really side. and here's what the country's defense minister had to say. the one who just weeks ago claimed that israel is not ready for another front in the north. the possibility for an agreement is running out as bullet continues to tide south 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. it is clear that we might expect even further and more dramatic escalation. some is where the media now speculates that within the next hours we might expect mess of strikes from the lebanese sides. meanwhile, northern communities prepare a for a possible retaliation. like here, i'm right now in the city of kids. one i loved one on is just behind the small and behind me i have to say that it hasn't been said pearson's last look forward. when his bullet joined him, austin, confronting israel, but it still could be much more

a sign the horse local residents, those who are still staying here very much concerned about these escalation that is still coming on. as a result, we have a situation when officially the full scale operation has not been approved or declared. it's not, there is no more, but it is guessing that direction in leaps and bounds. this is the largest cyber attack that has the less faced in its history. and ever since the start of the conflict between israel and gaza getting back to october of 2023, we have the as the law officials, as well as the lebanese officials and provided a statement suggesting that israel was behind the attack. after examining all the fact current data and available information about the terrible attack that took place, we hold these really enemy, fully responsible for this criminal aggression which also targeted civilians and led to a large number of casualties including debts. the lebanese government condemns

these rightly attack the responsibility for israeli attacks long as with the international community in its 1st statements as the last side, that's an investigation will be launched, that they will get to the bottom of the nature of the attack. how, what happened and why it happened for the most part. but what we're looking at right now is a different strategy that is being used by these really ministry. we understand that lebanon's health ministry also issued a statement suggesting that civilians were also targeted as a result of this attack. so that really leaves 2 scenarios that are gaining traction on social media. as well as the popular figure. among panelists and cyber security experts, which suggest that it was either a cyber warfare attack that was targeting these devices. because the reality is that as well luck does have protocols in place to ensure that the device's self destruct if they ever apprehended bite is rarely intelligence officials. so the 1st option would be that is really tapped into the transmitting signals and the towers that are essentially erected throughout the country topped into those targeted those devices. and as

a result exploded. but the thing that does remain constant is looking at the video footage that was provided and suggest that the devices were in one way or another strapped with explosives and not your typical electrical fire or battery exploding . and that really leaves the reason for the 2nd alternative, which is uh, there is a probability that is really intelligence at one point of access to these devices, tempered with these devices and essentially designated these does. so i'm sorry uh, transmitted the destination protocol which was sorted in the explosion of these devices. the one thing that does remain clear as bullet has about to retaliate. and we can only assume that israel will, in one form or another retaliate to that retaliation further. central inspire and we're out of control and risk inputting the entire region into further conflict of the whining and basset or 211 on most of amani is one of those who have been affected by that last the force he sustained injuries. and he was sent to the

hospital or the we're not for still was he, i carrying the page or that exploded or he wasn't. there was sit at each of the blogs style. we're of course, are waiting for comments from the running officials to elaborate on this, but his wife took to social media. she wrote on fixed on her ex account that he is feeling well. now she wrote that her husband was exposed to injuries, minor injuries, as described by his wife, and now he has survived the incident, of course uh it came as part of that large scale, a cyber attack that targeted of hundreds of pagers or communication devices carried by hundreds of hezbollah members, but of course now yvonne has also reacted with see different iranian officials are starting to react. uh the one in a foreign minister. i bought that off. she called his beloved his counterpart um and he extended his condolences and called the incident

a terrorist acts bite as well that will not go on answer. so this is not, not, not a game that will lead to coming down to a situation in the middle east. and as a one is talking about revenge as well. and living on have been exchanging fire and the on the liberties is where the border and the situation is not going to end. and as my colleagues said, this is going to put the region on the brink of a regional complication. how moss has condemned to the cyber attack and blamed washington for providing cover for israel to commit such actions. this terrorist operation comes within the framework of the comprehensive zionist aggression on the region and the arrogant and hearty policy adopted by the occupation government and is armed with american support that provides cover for its fascist crimes. we affirm that this criminal escalation will only lead israel

to more failure and defeat yes. reserve officer a scott bennett, says this attack could be an early step for israel before massive invasion of living on without a doubt. and this constitutes the beginning of the israeli military to take out the command and control the communication centers and the communication functionality between its members on the ground. so i think this is the 1st stage of a larger is really invasion of level not to take out the ability of people to communicate is the fundamental 1st step, the foundation upon which to build a larger invasion. so i do think we'll also see additional attacks citing computers and laptops and others. but this is without a doubt, israel's beginning stages of wage and a large war against has the law. i think it's impossible to wage this sort of terrorist attack without the u. s. involvement because of the satellites require

the national reconnaissance office of the united states, the and a say the c i a are all very tuned in to all satellite communications, cellphone communications over is real, overlapping on over palestine, as well as the, the larger region. my experience in the army when i was there, has left me without any doubt that the us military is essential for providing is really connectivity. and they have exploited this and turned it into a weapon of terrorism that i think will have a true tremendous backlash against israel. because you are infuriating the rest of the neighbors and the communities when they see women and children blown up by pagers, that israel has intentionally used as

a weapon. a u. s. government is out to get us and the market back. a bird is happy to oblige his men of platforms have joined washington's crusade against our network, shutting us down across facebook and instagram. this comes after the state department called for a world wide band of rush and state media over alleged the election. meddling and meta is obediently towing the line. after careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against russian state media outlets versus the gordon there are see in other related and these are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity. earlier today, just hours before instagram and facebook page, as we're taking down meadows policy details, we're unexpectedly altered. this comes as 2 months after the previous update, however, changes to the terms had previously or occurred only once every 2 years. and there's no surprise that the latest amendment came after the orders were passed down from the us state department. as our case, we're in a coast right. but explains,

it's hardly surprising that of course we saw meta 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 has been very well documented from former c i a and the 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. 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 uh threat. but we are geriatric. every partner to start by treating our these activities as they do other intelligence activities by russia within their borders and a couple of days, right after that metal 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 won't cut are do 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 the gun 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. but let's talk about monica's that the bug, cuz his platforms have previously done the bidding for the american government. he even admitted it himself, but he's been said as some concept that they asked him to. so it was, anyone really so flies that he's 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. 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 2021. senior officials from the bite and administration, including the white house, repeatedly press, star teams for months to sense or 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,

i'm 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, 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's business model over the next 5 years is the digital market's 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 reason 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 russia 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. are to his editor in chief margarita so many on has commented on the situation, saying the band is no surprise to anyone since mete also serves the us state department. the bed was entirely to be expected. they're prep shutdown of our accounts and bo facebook and instagram,

along with those say back to goodness ations masquerading. his information platforms was no surprise. i wouldn't my teeth and tongue down from saying they should have never been allowed interruption. from the moment they were permitted in, they should have been expelled as they serve merely as the left heel of american intelligence agencies and what is often called the american deep state. naturally, the band comes up to the deep state represented by its founding the state department labeled us as the well stop spies and america's primary fellows and something. i generally appreciate the key reason the world does not uniformly support ukraine, is the primary reason they believe the internationalization of russia has failed and why numerous countries either remain neutral, opened the back russia, the impact of r t. they may have closed yet another door in us, but we'll find another entrance window or even a crack and the floor will continue our work, no matter what vice chair that can in communist party. booker olay says,

meta is being used as a tool to promote a us gemini. it was, is important to us, the knowledge that sound about the platform, the mentor at phone is months in utah all the time. so it's also drives the interest of the united states empire, and united states, imperialism from time to time, have used its dominance leverage on um, uh, on the bottom of information to drive its own amount of deals and insights. monique tendencies, you know, on the phone at the global level. so the money mobile turn into bad, out feeds. uh, that was up to lead to like, and then pollution, not a means to democratize information, chatting 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. then the united states, imperialism, and things. the. the one seems to be that 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 tenuously being generated. 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 to add them onto clips on a morning style or an indian beams out of an otherwise bit lesson. so this is sort of them what you bit of the mentor platform to washington's pressure has so far failed to convince many major powers. india is one example which is reportedly refusing to back the u. s. according to new delhi officials quoted by the media,

the country doesn't support in a lateral measures without un approval. but here's what the american envoy and the indian capital said earlier. the government 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 following the news of meadows ban on our to the south african media review organization underlines that western freedom of speech is applicable only if an outlet stands and fits the convenient narrative the media review network condemns the brazen violations of press freedom by meta, the parent company of what's up 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 decisions depend russian we documents so to 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 there is no subscript to me. 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 same task of numerous contrivances for us from his handling of use a data treats roland, spitting 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.

a space should be leading up to the election. we saw at that time if the speech advocacy group finding a request, asking me a tough to disclose information about to the selected identified during the elections of the dates. i collected at the mrs. 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 african do have a system 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 has resurfaced to admit tasks of face the whole set top it was the ration, find the victims of the 2 great walls which facebook field beating 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 content. and citing by this an advocating hatred leading to the dates in the country. as of that was not enough very recent sheets. nature directly to mid to what a mess the funds of about $220000000.00 that you address save that to me. it has repeatedly violated in states of protection commission laws, including denying nature is 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 message that's even big tip companies like mid tough con to be more local news if it's a zip. nice area. if your yeah, 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 i'm listening to patching on the african continent

. and right now with this decision, mit is confirming what is known about it. the political bias in width and social media platforms because this now is being interpreted as an effort to, to suppress alternative viewpoints like it has done of the african countries. south african parliament member and nobody owns in concord told us that the statements from washington are patronizing and people have a right to choose what they watch to. people must be able to make choices based on an informed decision, whether they're able to be exposed to all the information that expose them to multiple multiple perspectives on each by the not surprised because even before elections, we have to challenge and start off the go feet using this information with stories, we're not verified with that intentional crime to manipulate on the metal platform . in particular, especially facebook because a lot of african people, especially of ordinary citizens,

the photo this media platform. so to try it and manipulate outcomes to time on your plate. the posters, because some of the modification that takes place, it's about opinion polls, which are not verified. authenticated, would you find that this platform is age condition people to about teacher outcome of the election? which says, for example, does not support a westdale true wisdom agenda? would be demo nice to using those platforms and as long as that happens to a lot of people are not the u. s, it's not appropriate. it's okay. as long as it provide a punitive view to what the us wants to put forward as another to globally then, then all the principles of democracy so called fly out of the needle in favor of trying, trying to protect and bullying people around the world and protecting dangerous, james reuben, who is the coordinator of the us state department, global engagement center, put out a statement. let's take a look. a listen real quickly to what he had to say. what we're hoping to do to

this diplomatic campaign is to inform the world, and that's where we hope to have success by informing the world of who these people really are, what they really do, how they use their, their offices and their tv capabilities, to try to get governments around the world to change their policies. other countries will make decisions for themselves. but we certainly hope when they make those decisions. and that's what we're doing about it. we're trying to expose so that we can disrupt their activities by helping other governments come to their own decisions about how to treat this, this non television station activities and the propaganda and lies that come out of archie. it's incredibly popularizing to other countries. say you don't have capabilities to still got a hold intelligence you require require the services of the brother america to be able to do that. but the other. ready issues if they have an issue with meta and rather a t, as in any kinds of ways that must have been global agenda to try and block or do

a t instead. often dealing with that issue internally and having even having bilateral engagements if they can, with the shift to actually to kind to the coincidence what they want. we want to make the problem. i was now the one to actually pretend as if, if the we have a disagreement issues with the last year. the whole world must have been an issue. s t, the russia cannot be beaten on the battlefield. and if you plan in conflict, it doesn't end soon. the escalation will affect the whole of humanity. that's the cause, like presidents message during a meeting with the german chancellor who was visiting the central asian country. it is a fact that russia is militarily invincible. further escalation of the war will lead to a rep and will consequences for all mankind and above all, for all countries directly involved in the russian ukrainian conflict. schultz reacted by defending continued support for q. it's certainly a bit of a different scene. and then schultz has been seeing back home for the local as

though where he seems to be positioning himself as some kind of a piece broker. in the wake of recent german elections were pro peace parties of trouts, his own party, which obviously have escaped. schultz is social democratic party leadership. the federal chancellor in vladimir zelinski agree that now is a good time to intensify, efforts for peace talks, and that russia should also be present at the next piece summit. i expressly welcome this. it also opens the opportunity for other countries to become more involved in ending the hostilities. nothing quite has the ability to alter policy and political pastors like the need for political self preservation. schultz said over the weekend the unlike western allies, musing about allowing long range precision weapons destroyed deeper inside russia. he has ruled out their delivery. so one of the top leaders from germany is rapidly rising. anti establishment left recently laid out some fairly concrete suggestions

for how this whole crowd show truant theoretically, be wrapped up. miss, why can connect? you are calling for negotiations with the kremlin. vladimir putin. we're sitting here now and you had a negotiating mandate. what would you offer him? a call to arms deliveries if he agrees to an immediate cease fire on the current front lines. and then we would have to negotiate what happens in the areas where the russians are currently located. the right thing to do would be to ask the people in don bass and crimea in a referendum under un supervision, which country they want to belong to. this war will not. and without a compromise, we've been seeing a shift in the public discourse in western europe, at least in france and germany with prominent newspapers like and if you get whole and deaf spiegel, running analysis basically saying that this whole idea of beating russia on the battlefield to the point of his filling all of the training is officials,