A close relationship and sympathy from progressive leaders in latin america and facebook friends, joe biden. Thats the claim of critics who say the social media giant is being too easy on the president elect in its fight against fake news. Thanksgiving to everyone gathered around the turkey today im donald quarter and youre watching r t international. Welcome to the program. In france, 4, teenagers are said to have been charged in connection with last months brutal beheading of a teacher. Among them is reported to be the daughter of a man behind an Online Campaign against samuel paddy. The teacher was killed after showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his class during a lesson on free speech. As charlotte to reports. Well, 3 of the individuals are said to be 1314 years old, and they have been indicted for complicity in a terrorist assassination. And thats because theyre said to have been the teenagers who pointed out to samuel parties who he was there for allowing that beheading to take place. The 4th teenager who has also been indicted is said to have been the daughter of the man who is widely regarded as being behind the media frenzy surrounding that lesson when some new party showed controversial cartoons of the muslim prophet that sparked anger in the local community. She has been indicted for slander. Now all 4 individuals have since been released, but they are being monitored by controls here in france. Lets take a reminder of what happened. Leading up to the murder of samuel pattie. One of our competitors was murdered because he taught our compared to it was the victim of an islamist terror attack. A number of individuals have been hauled in front of the police. Some have been charged, some have been let free others have in fact receive sentences and condemned for their part in the surrounding storm regarding that, including one mother who was sentenced for apparently celebrating his death in a facebook post. And a man from algeria who is condemned for terrorism. Again, by referring to samuel pattis death, theres also been this huge fallout. President was clear following the death of summer party that france wouldnt roll back from showing controversial images when it comes to talking about freedom of speech that sparked huge protests in some muslim majority, countries. Needs a Mental Health treatment was good cause he is a case and therefore he really needs to have mental checks that have that were present. My corn has been infuriated by some english language media saying that they have twisted his words over the last 2 months or so suggesting that he was attacking islam in some way rather than islam ism. And theres been a huge amount of fake news, too. Surrounding the new which is to crack down on separatism here in france. But the reality is that many muslims here in france feel that they are being singled out. They are being targeted, not just by this law, but by the forelock force happened since summer. Pattis murder, and its likely that this is an issue that is going to rumble on for some time. Football fans around the world have been mourning the death of football superstar Diego Maradona in the argentinian capital, emotions boiled over as thousands gathered to pay their respects. Oke, oke Police Reportedly used rubber bullets and tear gas against agitated fans who were demanding more time to say goodbye r t journalists covering the story were injured as well. One was hit by a stone and another by a rubber bullet. And i think it was real money in the back in the italian city of naples fans waved flags and sang club songs dedicated to the late star. The night sky was also turned bright red as supporters set off flares in tribute, or donna played for napoli for 7 years, helping the club to win the league title for the 1st time in its history. Arizona was famous for his antics both on and off the field, but he will be remembered as one of the sports all time greats. I never thought this day would come. My 1st idol is gone. My only idol is the greatest of all the master football. The one who gave a say everything and when i heard about it, i died with him. Thats what happened to me. Ringback we spoke to a close friend of maradona, the former ecuadorian president rafael correa. This is a loss for the whole world for the entire argentinean nation. Its a catastrophe. You cant even imagine how maradona as adored. He did so much for the country at the 86 world cup in mexico. I wasnt at that world cup, but i was in italy in the 90s when maradona played for napoli. He was adored, especially in southern italy, so much so that even during the argentina, italy match. Many italians supported argentina because of the number 10 because of diego armando. Without doubt, he was a leader, a leader that never hid his political leanings, he was in favor of progressive politics. But even if you lean toward the right, it wouldnt matter. Because 1st and foremost were his personal qualities, his honesty, his leadership, his habit of seeing what he thought, one way or another in a was a warrior for social justice. He was a rebel and fought against injustice and hypocrisy of the world order. He himself was from a poor family, so he knew 1st hand what it was like, living in hardship. And he always saw it as these duty to change something. Thats what gave him a close relationship and sympathy from progressive leaders in latin america like that. Hugo chavez. Ever morellas nester and the man youre speaking with right now . The overwhelming majority of the argentinean people in one origin cina very well. Not only love but worship diego armando. Theres even a church in his name. And if he was a legend while he was still alive, the now when he has raced past us and left this world, hes playing football up there in the heavens. With those who have also left us, the legend has become a myth. Understand there, Diego Madonna is a mythical character for argentina, and much of the world baseball has made what it calls a temporary emergency change to its news algorithm in response to the u. S. President ial election. The social media giant says its trying to eradicate misinformation, but critics say its giving a preference to content less critical of joe biden. A week after the election, some facebook staff reportedly discussed the possibility of the temporary algorithm becoming a permanent feature. As the dawn of reports, Election Fraud 2 words, you would never associate with the United States of america. Now, a phrase that could send fists flying in the country, allegations of cheating have also outgrown the issue of a vote recount. As some republicans claim theyve been conned elsewhere too on social media. You know, the people there that i hear from, of course, believe that conservatives were wrongfully being silenced. While those on the left that were given basically a free rein to your platforms. At 1st glance, the allegations that facebooks nonpartisan algorithms have been tweaked to give biden an upper hand dont seem too old after all, biden, and his team have been rather unflattering towards the platform to say the least. I have never been a big fan of facebook as you probably know. I have never been a big zuckerberg fan, but the latest report suggests that this could all be smoke and mirrors, and that facebook is already buttering up the new white house landlord from promoting content which rubber stamps joe bidens talking points to secretly screwing tight the traffic for publications by nonmainstream and pro republican outlets, it resulted in a spike in visibility for big mainstream publishers like c. N. N. The New York Times and National Public radio, while posts from highly engaged hyper partisan pages such as breitbart and occupy democrats became less visible. Facebook denies any bias explaining its strives to achieve balance to the best of its ability, but some actions speak louder, suggesting a mutual affection. The supposedly facebook loathing joe biden doesnt seem to have a problem hiring from the roster. Ready ready d bidens Deputy Communications director also seems to have had a change of heart and deleted tweets, giving facebook a dressing down executive roles. We have permission this country. They control who sees what they censor. Conservative news, big tech. Its been working towards this for 4 years, and it will be bored to ensure that joe biden wins their party is the democrat party. So of course were going to see former c. E. O. s from facebook from from other technology companies. They are, these are joe biden. People previously, facebook has repeatedly found itself in hot water with the u. S. Authorities. It seems this time the giant has finally learned its lesson and is preemptively raising their hand that could very soon be feeding it. We put the new facebook algorithm up for debate. I dont believe it is the place of a Big Tech Company to govern what is and is not considered to be 100 percent true when youre having algorithm that is created by human beings to determine whats true, what has the raspy and what doesnt. Unfortunately, it doesnt always get it right. And then you have the early morning, its almost create, it went a bit too. Are its silencing things that you know we, we may not like and thats not the basis of what we should be silencing people. Why . Theres many instances in which they go ahead and take factual stories down. What was the deal with the new york post, tory about the hunter biden law top . I mean, if you tweeted about that, your tweet would be taken down. If you posted on facebook, you were posting with some sort of a disclaimer, but this is something that you know, that the Biden Campaign had never denied you know these far, these conspiracies and this white supremacy, garbage and all this other stuff has nothing to do with the conservative side of, the aisle in the, in the g. O. P. , what, what dish you is were truthful. Stories were being dissed put disclaimers on and that her throat leading up to the election because they couldnt talk about things like hunter biden excepting foreign payments. And then being repositioned basically to do that with joe bidens victory. We know that facebooks trained to operate in order to make money. Theyve been making money and over and order a new thing. Thats what they mentality. We know that theyre suppressing it was. There may be some suppression of news that should be written up, and we also know that they are taking down people who are saying the holocaust never happened. I disagree with the whole narrative of facebook is only are out for its business interest on this whole switch to being a publisher. Goes ahead, it goes against the idea of it being a Business Model and a free in clear kind of all terrain for people who are all different types of information. Baseball is taking at oriel position. Whichever government it is, there is going to be some control over what the media is saying. Thats unfortunate. And its up to people in order to educate themselves, which was the initial intent to have this democratization through social media. But it is been corrupted by the super rich, and thats why we see whether or not its mainstream news looking like theyre a propaganda for the, for, for the state run media, we have to be smarter than that and try together as a people and not be divided and thats what social media is trying to do to us. It was supposed to promote unity, but its promoting rissa fall b. N. Instead. Thats the claim of russias top diplomat whos taking a swipe at the council of europe. This story and more after the break chose seemed wrong. But old rules just dont call me yet to shape out these days to come to educate and engage with equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. Back to the program. Russias top diplomat has called out the council of europe for drifting away from its purpose of promoting unity, calling the body dangerously politicized. Start to use. Daniel hawkings has more Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov is in the closing stages of a working visit to minsk where he met his but a russian counterpart, foreign minister and the 2 officials. This crossing both internal events in belarus over the past few months as well as of course relations between minsk and moscow. Now, mr. Lovell in the press conference after that meeting was very critical. Of his german counterpart, high call muscle, presented his program for the coming 6 months in the politicized fashion. Striking an unacceptable tone. I would even go as far as saying it was rude, not how a diplomat should act. He made quite a few remarks again, they were baseless accusations regarding crimea, abkhazia south to set a year transnistria and the southeast of ukraine. The level of there was referring to comments that i call mass made at the meeting of the committee of the council of europe, which germany is due to take presidency off shortly. In his speech mass was very critical of a number of points, 1st and foremost, crimeas reunification with russia, which the German Foreign minister described as a violation of international law. That event has, of course, been a huge bone of contention between europe and russia for quite some time. Russia views things very, very differently, stating that reunification took place democratically after a referendum on the peninsula. Germanys top diplomats was also quick to point the finger at other issues. Russias involvement in the conflict between georgia and South Ossetia as well as the presence of Russian Peacekeeping troops in the breakaway moldovan region of transistor trio. Love was very quick to return some of the criticism as world both Foreign Ministers in fact noted the amount of western involvement in other countries and affairs, most notably in belarus, following that president ial election in august and the political turmoil that ensued in the country thats carrying on until this day, among other topics was the arms control treaties with stating there wasnt a lot to be discussed and not a lot of agreement could be reached on those issues with the outgoing u. S. Administration. Just let me start with the trumpet ministration. Currently at the helm, i dont see how we could agree on anything in earnest regarding arms control. We dont know yet who the next administration will be comprised of to see how those people will mold us policies after the 21st of january. A lot of this rhetoric were hearing is neither new nor surprising, but with a lot of these issues in particular, arms control the open skies treaty, which the u. S. Pulled out from very recently, becoming salient over the past weeks and months. Its hoped that with the new incoming u. S. Administration, it is charts for both sides that take, a step back and have a fresh look at the situation. In the u. K. , the architect behind the freedom of information act claims the government is now adays deliberately obstructing the release of potentially Sensitive Data partners has the story. A storm is brewing in the u. K. About freedom of information with a new government, a new report by open democracy describes a socalled. Oh well you, its called the clearinghouse that obstructs media requests and even blacklist journalists Clearing House shares with a range of whitehall departments. A daily update containing the names of journalists and complain as the requests they have submitted and advice on how referring to providence should respond past in the year 2000. And the freedom of information act was meant to open up the workings of government requests for information were supposed to remain anonymous or applicant blind. And in theory could help keep the authorities in check. But according to this reports, the cabinet now rejects more requests than ever in general, more requests to turn down then responded to positively by the state, the Central Government departments. And indeed, the Cabinet Office here, which has kind of custody of the issue of freedom of information in this country. There was bad as, as the others, if not worse, in many ways. And one of the key issues is that this is a regulated by something called the Information Commissioners Office and they have a huge backlog. Their resources have been slashed over the past decade and they dont even really to keep up with the complaints as when they come in, off government promise failing to respond. And the irony is that the Government Department is responsible for its budgets. And for the very thing, the agency generally is the Cabinet Office. Number 10 says the consideration of foia requests remains applicant and most defined and the Clearing House unit remains fully compliant. But there is growing criticism within westminster labor peer lord clarke of when dimia was instrumental in the becoming a law and is now calling for a government investigation into the controversial yunis, along with politicians across the spectrum. This Clearing House is certainly against the spirit of that act, and probably the latter 2 ministers should explain to the house of commons precisely why they continue with this set up in view of the fact that it is contradictory to the whole purpose of freedom of information this is extremely troubling if the Cabinet Office is interfering in f y requests and seeking to work around their requirements of the act by blacklisting join. They say it is a grave threat to our values and transparency in our democracy. Yes, this storm over the law has been brewing since it was past 20 years ago under tony blairs government. After the then Prime Minister discovered that governments couldnt discuss any issues with a reasonable level of confidentiality. And freedom of information was mainly used by journalists. He cursed himself. You idiot, you know eve, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop. There is really no description of stupidity no matter how vivid it is adequate. I quake in the imbecility of 8 political leaders. Its like saying to someone whos hitting you over the head with a stick. Try this instead, and hand him a mandate. Now it seems, Boris Johnsons government is also trying to put the lid back on the pandoras box. That the British Public are legally entitled to open. Partridge party love to Party Russian host maria boats and has released a book about her time spent in, a u. S. Prison. Maria was a guns rights activist in washington d. C. , but was charged with espionage back in 2018. She claims she was forced to sign a plea deal which landed her an 18 month jail sentence. It was there that she began writing her prison diaries for more on your world news stories. Make sure to check out our website, r. T. Dot com. Let us know you think to leave a comment, ill be back with more in just about half an hour and i hope to see you then you know, millions of years to build up an emotional one. When the communication happens within 10 milliseconds. After that because it takes about 60000000 seconds just to get the same room. You know, this emotional bond between us is very different and will bring this back as interesting. Ministration comes when then those who dreamed up in executing the russia gate hoax ever be held accountable when the media ever be held accountable for the role they played and should be now assume the deep state is truly a member of the board. With the looting you put some nice to meet you to surround us on in some new building. That is which you have to be on the local butcher, the one with your leanings chip. To look at, ease of lucas. I wish you the very wealthy feel like the one is your media, a reflection of reality in a world transformed what will make you feel safe . Isolation community . Are you going the right way or are you being that direct . What is true . What is faith . In the world corrupted, you need to descend to join us in the depths. Aura, maybe in the shallowness as in trying to ministration comes when then those who dreamed up and executed to russia, gay folks never be held accountable when the media never be held accountable for the role they played and should be. Now assume the deep state is truly above the law. This is boom, bust the one business show you cant afford to miss. Im french, a bore in washington. Coming up, the g. D. P. Of the United Kingdom has taken a major hit amid the copen 1000 pandemic leading to a flurry of borrowing not themes and, or in times of peace. Plus, could the European Union be rolling out a krone virus vaccine, or 2021 . Straight ahead when to break down the potential for the move and where we stand amid the outbreak. And the later we do a deep dive into the state of the chinese fight against poverty. With facts show today, lets dive right in. And we need the program with the latest in the economic toll brought on by the kobe 1000 pandemic. The british economy is expected to contract by 11. 3 percent in 2020, according to the u. K. s office for budget responsibility. Now the o. B. Are also update its forecast for the next few years, predicting growth of 5. 5 percent in 2021 and 6. 6 percent in 2022. G. D. P. In the nation will not return to precursor virus levels until the 4th quarter of, 2022. Now, according to the o. B. , our borrowing is set to reach 526000000000. 00 or roughly 1000 percent of g. D. P. In 2020, the highest peacetime level on record. Meanwhile, the british finance minister announced more than 370000000000. 00 in public spending to address the hardships brought on by the pandemic. It will allocate funds for testing in p. P. And support for the National Health services among other measures. So for more on this, lets go ahead and other Economic News of the day. Lets go ahead and bring in boom bust cohost christiane, an active member, n. Z. C. E. O. Of optimus l. L. C. Always a pleasure to have both of you on the show to talk about these things. Octavio to start with you here though with the british budget deficit. Ballooning. Are these measures unveiled bias or not enough to support the u. K. As its one of the hardest hit developed nations due to the pandemic . Sun is one of the hardest hit nations. And so the having is this, your mind and that sounds absolutely dread but its just in the us this stuff