Of the biggest brands in food including products made that threat at a tech Conference Monday but the anglo dutch firm has been called out of course in the past with its own misjudge marketing daniel kids explains more same news different day facebook is again in the firing line having faced pressure from governments and activists over failing to root out hate speech racism fake news divisive comments and whatnot this time its global giant universe leading the charge even threatening to reduce and withdraw advertising from the social media platform if things dont improve. Unilever will not invest in platforms or environments that do not protect our children or which create division in society consumers do care about fraudulent practice fake news and russians influencing the us election they do care when they see their brands being placed next to ads funding terror or exploiting children now the message is clear no more deception abuse and controversy and a new era of positivity unity and includes everybody but a closer look at unilever own p. R. Record reveals a contentious history from this infamous dove soap placed on facebook triggering a storm of accusations of racism to fair lovely Skin Lightening Products market across asia sporting allegations of perpetuating racist colonial there are types to control the seas with massage any and sexism culminating in a damning report on chauvinist that marketing. After apologizing unilever has said its now to change its ways its released new adverts advocating inclusive ety it wants facebook to follow suit or else lets face it though you leave out probably wont drop one of its biggest advertising platform money talks but the story probably has generated some good p. R. That you believe or as any company is primary responsibility is to make money for its shareholders too to turn a profit and sometimes p. R. Initiatives like this are part of it there are just an effort to elevate your brand i think it would be difficult for them as a company that makes Consumer Products to avoid advertising one of the most prominent platforms today but what about the central actor in the whole story. Book the platform has shown commitment to the battle against fake news and abuse but the floodgates have now been truly opened on the pressure left right and center to moderate to censor to sanitize and seems to have buckled under the squeeze well it has made itself very vulnerable because it has made these promises and its even done some things to try to filter misinformation out of its social network even though they have tried to do things it doesnt appear to be working were going to see a lot of pressure increasing pressure on facebook at unilever things that could fix it by giving putting marketplace pressure on facebook im a little bit skeptical that that will actually work facebook is tackling an ever growing list of calls and ultimatums first from politicians and Security Services now it seems corporations that shipping into facebook spending to dumonds could well backfire. A top u. S. Democratic lawmakers call from urgency meetings and alleged russian meddling thats on top of the three major investigations already underway in the United States. Thinks the Current Administration is not doing enough to address the threat which he describes as being equivalent to a bold bullets we ought to protect ourselves this is a very Severe Threat and this is as much an attack on the United States as if there were bombs and bullets this is an attack on our essential governing structure so amid the continuing allegations of trouble russia ties one of the investigators on the Senate Intelligence committee has found himself in bold and controversy to jacqueline. In case you havent noticed the Democratic Party is very worried about big bad russia the film portals into our society the kremlin clan russia has harnessed the tremendous and quite frankly to me frightening power of social media truly troubling evidence of the scope and reach of russias interference in our last election and the top democrat on the senates Russian Investigation mark warner is no exception to the rule im concerned. But the president still does not recognize the severity of the threat but apparently warner does and he will do anything necessary to battle moscows reach based on leaked Text Messages between the senator and a second party it looks like when it comes to the russian threat the ends justifies any means and could in attempting to carry out some collusion of your own several of the messages show warner trying to arrange a secret meet up with Christopher Steele the former spy behind the now Infamous Trump dossier we want to do this right private in london i want to send less yet because if we cant get agreement would rather not have paper trail so who was warner depending on the set up the clandestine meeting with steel that would be one mr adam wildman a lobbyist best known for acting on behalf of the russian tycoon did it and according to the tax womyn is also connected to julian asuncion another person accused of being a kremlin puppet now this is all way under the table warner repeatedly refused to make the invitation to speak to seal officially in writing while at the same time telling weldon that the paris efforts would be helping america and apparently in his mind the way to do that is to be includes with the confidence of one of the richest men in russia and according to republican senator marco rubio the whole Senate Intelligence committee has known about the contacts for months so if the other the democrats nor the republicans care about warners conduct is it just that collusion is a problem reserved for only one party or is the reality here that russia is just being used in a political game of chess one or said it one point we have to be careful of paraphrasing here i dont want a paper trail now if what he was doing was fine and dandy and innocuous and no big deal then why would he care if there was a paper trail he certainly should have or his staff should have known who he was communicating with who this lobbyist represented if youre going to talk to a lobbyist about getting a one on one face to face with Christopher Steele then you should know who youre dealing with in trying to arrange that need. The fix was in the ta is or between the democrats and russia more so than anything trump ever had to do with russia but it just shows what hypocrites they are and the American Media just ignores these things coming out washingtons top diplomat admits Islamic State hasnt yet been defeated in syria despite victory being declared last year we got that story in plenty more to come just eighty seconds away. Heres what people have been saying about rejecting this a. Bill the show i go out of my way to. Really go back to. Is the john oliver of a party of mary to say we are apparently better than. The c. Heard of. Jack to the next president of the world bank. Sent us an email. In the soft and in the president of turkey has sent a warning to the United States threatening aggressors with what roger bedouin called an autumn slap it came in response to u. S. Commanders vow to use aggression if washington backed forces were confronted. We will respond aggressively we will defend ourselves. Aggressive exchange of words is heightened tensions in and around syria over how and correct washington currently view Kurdish Forces differently or monday washington emitted that some of the kurdish groups it trains are shifting to fight against turkish troops in the north of syria potential flash point here turkey is currently on the offensive against kurdish groups there it deems them as terrorists its a complicated picture calum open as more of the situation that seems to be playing out now in syria. U. S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis has confirmed that u. S. Armed Kurdish Forces in the ass d. F. Have been relocating to the northern parts of syria to protect territory from turkey. The destruction of was going on up enough and right now which is drawing off some of the Syrian Democratic forces to see the snuff and on the run so the schools and the police there are tensions to shift. Now the kurds and turkey are both key u. S. Allies in the region however theres been tension between all three of them in recent months now weve heard of how the usa has been arming the Kurdish Forces and providing them with weapons now and carra has been quite upset by this action they consider this to be the arming of terrorists now at this point we do have a statement from james mattis confirming that he believes there are legitimate security concerns on turkeys part about these Kurdish Forces that have been armed by the United States will continue to work with and there is of disagreements which is how do we take them on as he was run at least possible they have a legitimate security concern and we do not dismiss one bits of them now there has been escalating tension between the United States and turkey especially in the aftermath of an announcement from the United States that it intended to create a thirty thousand Strong Border force to protect syrias border with turkey now u. S. Leaders backtracked from those comments but that hasnt stopped turkey from being quite upset by these remarks now weve recently seen the beginning of Operation Olive Branch and this is Turkish Forces moving into syria to fight against the kurds two allies of the United States clashing with each other in syria as the tensions escalate were even hearing calls to rename the street on which the u. S. Embassy in turkeys capital is located there are calls to rename the street olive branch after Operation Olive Branch the Turkish Operation to go into syria and fight against the Kurdish Forces armed by the United States there seems to be quite a bit of contradiction in the words and statements of u. S. Leaders and there seems. To be rising tension between all three parties the usa turkey and the Kurdish Forces. With relations being tested between the two nato allies us talk to them a Rex Tillerson is visiting turkey now as part of his middle east tour and to listen admitting the fight against Islamic State is far from over in syria despite washington declaring victory of the terror group back in november for younger for major combat operations does not mean we have achieved during the few devices isis remains a serious threat to the stability of the region our homeland and other parts of the globe last month the us announced plans to maintain an open ended military presence in syria it says some two thousand troops are set to stay on in the country to prevent what they term an i sill resurgence and to counter irans influence in the region washington also says it wants to ensure the civil war is resolved through a political process and that displaced locals can return to their homes simply to that end theyve also pledged two hundred Million Dollars in aid but the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov things washingtons present might become permanent. But you are still the police u. S. Is its presence should continue not only into military goals are achieved but also until theres a steady political process that should end with an appropriate or in other words accepted by the us transition of power that means regime change overall we have reasons to believe that the u. S. Wants to stay there for a long time if not forever the United States would like to pressure damascus by whatever means it has to change to or to effect a political change over there that the United States would like to be you know would like to endorse and then later on they could probably say ok we like that sort of change and lets get out of here otherwise we wont be getting out of here now only the face of it the real thing is that we believe that the United States is preparing the ground for a long term separation or a permanent actually separation of eastern North Eastern syria from the syrian state the two hundred Million Dollars that are being placed today are now going to bring back electricity and water to the devastated iraq we believe but probably bring more weapons to the kurds which is going to put some pressure on other minorities in the region to accept kurdish supremacy and the United States you know under the United States and britain i suspect weve talked the human toll roads watch has called for International Support in clearing the rubble in the mining the syrian city of rocket it says almost five hundred civilians were injured in the three months after it was liberated and many were killed it says in its report the Organization Also highlights the growing risk of more civilians being killed as people return to the devastated city that he now really is a Counterterrorism Program director he will rights watch and spoke to us about the groups findings. Just describe to you what i saw in iraq residents are very desperate to go and check on their home and because of the high risk and because of the few working opportunities for many young men you can go to a couple of in the city and for about fifty dollars you can hire people to go clear your house. You know but also. Run and some war this is a time where you know theyre not trained to do this its very dangerous and many other countries. They need to provide more support what sort of support. To be more meant more funding and increase in number of the miners and really increase in the training the. Local residents of the mining while there have been some of the mining efforts. By the mining were going to be funded by the International Coalition or through training this is not sufficient compared to the need and local residents are desperate for a morsel or the efforts. Before i go keep going to the developing story currently in london look at whats happening at Westminster Magistrates Court so where the fate of the wiki leaks or the julian sound is being decided right now again the judge is expected to announce the result of his latest appeal against the rest rest warrant for breaching bail in the u. K. So just so far its not looking good he says he claims the judge is simply defending u. K. State actions the judge says the court has to consider the seriousness of his son just failure to surrender and the harm its caused in the community a hearing a week ago held up that warrant theres no success for him and hes been stuck of course in the Ecuadorian Embassy in london for nearly six years now seeking asylum theyll keep. To adultery dot com. To which thats the way the world looks so father kevin i would think so watching out International Live from moscow. Join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport im showbusiness ill see you then. Theres some new solution on this but so many things. To sneeze at first thing in the room with that which was written on the front of the new. Its my apartment. And you know that some of it is just from us trying. To protect the player from the sprint to dad to some other time to this. Extent but. This is boom bust broadcasting around the world from the right here in washington d. C. Im partial thing on tap first today in the broadcast President Trump has given us more details on his infrastructure plans well take a closer look and as the markets melt down gold goes up well talk with peter schiff about what to expect now lets get to some of the headlines. The trumpets administration has unveiled its long awaited infrastructure plan this morning the white house proposal includes two hundred billion dollars in direct federal spending but officials claim that the two hundred billion dollars will stimulate at least one point five trillion dollars in new investment the difference would be. Covered by state and local Government Spending the outline does not include a financing plan leaving that decision to congress the outline notably emphasizes Rural Infrastructure and claims about permitting process delays the Congressional Research service has questioned whether weakening permuting processes would significantly accelerate building well have more on infrastructure from arties ashley banks and just a little bit. And with the Trump Administration again they have also unveiled their official Budget Proposal today investors