In Britain, one of the programs of Russia Today was closed

OFCOM British media regulator found violations of broadcasting principles in the TruthSeeker program of the Russian Russia Today, BBC reports . The TruthSeeker program is closed, all its issues are removed from the site.

The BBC appealed to OFCOM with a complaint. In one of the issues of TruthSeeker, the Russian channel claimed that the British broadcasting corporation staged an attack using chemical weapons in Syria to remove the report, and with the help of digital technologies changed the words spoken by one of the interviewed. It was argued that the “falsifications” of the BBC were found as a result of a “large-scale public investigation”.

Ofcom decided that the elements of the RT program, published in March 2014, "were actually misleading." The regulator said that the “public investigation” was in fact three letters of a private person with complaints about the BBC based on publications on the Internet. In addition, noted offom, the BBC did not get the opportunity to answer the accusations before the program is released.

Ofcom also noted that in another issue of the TruthSeeker program, the principles of broadcasting were seriously violated. This issue, entitled “Genocide in the east of Ukraine”, contained allegations that the Ukrainian authorities deliberately fire the civilian population in the east of the country, kill and torture journalists and commit other crimes, including the crucifixion of infants. The Armed Forces of Ukraine were accused of "ethnic purges" and compared with the Nazis during the Second World War.

According to the regulator, this program "was not balanced or objective." The only response to the accusations expressed in the program was the titer “Kyiv claims that it does not carry out genocide, and denies reports of victims”, demonstrated on the screen for six seconds.

RT is ordered to issue a brief statement of the OFCOM solution that the TruthSeeker channel program has misleading the audience.

In November 2014, OFCOM had already threatened the Russia Today TV channel with sanctions for non -compliance with the requirement of impartiality in the coverage of the situation in Ukraine. In total, the regulator discovered four cases when the channel violated the requirement of impartiality. All of them relate to the coverage of the situation in Ukraine.

As stated in an offom statement, the organization understands that RT "would like to represent news from a Russian point of view." At the same time, the document is noted, all the news should be submitted impartially - "especially those related to issues that cause major political disputes."

“OFCOM has strict rules for protecting the listeners,” said the organization’s representative. “If broadcasters violate our rules, we take quick and strict measures.”

The editor -in -chief of RT Margarita Simonyan, for her part, assured that the TV channel adhered and will continue to adhere to the rules established by the regulator. At the same time, she hinted that offom adheres to double standards, because, achieving impartiality from RT, at the same time does not require broadcasters to tell the point of view opposite to the views of the European and American political establishment.

RT has been broadcast in Britain since 2005. The past nine years in the country was broadcast by the English -language international television channel. On October 30, 2014, a new channel was launched, focused on Britain.