back and forth the great korean leader in trouble just highlighted the significance of north korea way out of proportion because i think it has go ahead michael well it showed that the small guy can they the david can still beat the guy. happened here is that he's outsmarted the u.s. and and the u.s. is left hanging dangling and he hold he retains his nuclear weapons and at the same time he makes nice with with the south which is fine and brings a little more calm the situation the problem that i see in emerging within the trump administration is that some neo cons want to bloody do a bloody nose approach yet and hit a. target just to show him that they mean business that could just absolutely ok i'm going to jump in here and on that note gentlemen i jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after a short break we'll continue our discussion on the korean peninsula state with our team.

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plan of freeze for freeze freeze in the program for freezing of the exercises and if we go back i think it was the penultimate round of sanctions against north korea it was televised i watched the whole thing i saw the western nations you know again the sanctimonious nonsense ok. but then the chinese in the in the russians put out a plan and it was actually quite lengthy it was quite detailed and it's still on the table and that is the way forward and that that table the u.s. can still sit if it so wishes go ahead charles. he has very interesting you mention this is the if you like the geo political backdrop to it because that is also on the show we say the micro level of the tactical level exactly what has caused this breakthrough if indeed it turns out to be that to take place the only reason why these talks have been able to take place in the first place is simply because south

korea agreed to pressure the u.s. to postpone the big military exercises that were planned until after the olympics take place on the basis of those exercises being postponed and the north has made it quite clear about this those talks then take place so it's of course that's ironic in a way because of course the u.s. is constantly stated the aim of those exercises isn't to threaten the north korea and elsewhere but it is to reassure the south and yet it's the south that has gone to america and said listen let's actually stop these exercise or at least put a hold on them and perhaps we can make some progress here and i made this comment earlier this week that you've got a situation where as in korea now it would appear as so many other places around the world comes to mind to some degree syria and so on that when you've got the us and its policies being placed to one side. in these different theaters of potential

conflict then that allows local players to actually exactly gather and talk nor in what sense is this interest in its policies and actually solving problems only starting on the road to solving problems themselves so i think it kind of follow up with what charles was saying there is that the dilemma that the u.s. faces is it's very entangled in alliances because i think all of us on this program would agree that this overture is worth exploring the u.s. should sit down at the table and talk about real security issues where everyone needs to feel safe but then you know that the japanese are good reason oh are you going to walk away from your commitments that you're changing your mind see this is the nightmare that the u.s. has with all of its alliances because it makes one false step then the entire region is going to take a lesson from that and maybe it will be a lesson that the u.s. wants them to because the u.s. obviously does not want to look weak in the pacific go ahead and washington. you

know you you if you spoke on a really important subject you know this issue of either being in entrapment or abandonment issues where. either being entrapped or being abandoned and then it creates various there are limits but let me out here throw out a proposal which is a little bit off the charts ok to deal with this situation on the korean peninsula you know i think one of the important things that needs to be done is a little bit of this tangle ng off the korea u.s. alliance within the context of the united nations command south korea is capable of carrying fighting and defeating of course not korea by conventional means of course if south korea just was able to take care of that responsibility it would also find that it has a greater autonomy in its political and diplomatic decision making with regard to north korea. what it does depend on with regard to the us is the extend to

determine the strategic deterrent that has to remain in place and that needs to be credible but if we could have a little bit more separation between the war fighting in the aspect between south korea and the united states and south korea takes the lead on that perhaps they might also become a little bit more brave on the diplomatic front and drag america a little bit more towards more diplomatic means of tackling these situations then just purely military means seems to be michael particularly since american public opinion research major poll that came out is that the the american public is reste by a very sizable majority frowning on all these foreign adventures and intra entrapping alliances here but i mean the one of the interesting things is that in the west they don't think about or talk about is that there's always been on the agenda of unification of the peninsula of course the issue is under whose terms ok because the chinese well they certainly don't want to see it under souls are mrs and of

course the united states as i want to see it under the north korea what they call quote unquote the regime here again i think the region has to give more agency to the koreans to find out what they want to accomplish where they want to go because the south koreans have been brigaded that responsibility for free depends but i would say having all those american troops there makes the place far more dangerous and the u.s. is way long overstayed its need to be there in south korea go ahead michael. well i think that's part of the dilemma for the united states now and on the one hand a green well yeah this let's proceed with talks but on the other hand how does this in the long term affect our relationship because you have to take into account the united states need to take into account then what is strategic relationship will be toward japan as you pointed out earlier and toward the. because we do have existing alliances with south korea i think that the the reality is the united states is

unless it takes some preemptive effort which is going to knock everything out it needs to allow the koreans to figure out their own destiny on the one hand we have to accept the fact that north korea now has nuclear weapons it's like except in whether india or pakistan has nuclear weapons or israel our influence over that was zero or even israel you know israel as you know we they they deny that they haven't but they've got a lot of four hundred units of them and it's really well you know my my my my for well let me let me go ahead my my proposal is it's always been my proposals always been the united states needs need needs diplomatically to go and challenge north korea by offering an ultimate lee diplomatic relations less than this less than the sanctions accept their existence and and accept the reality and

that they're there and let the two koreas figure out their own destiny ok michael one more thing i'll go to charles here they're going to have to accept that north korea is a nucular power because just as you said a country that is determined to get those weapons does it ok and there's not much you can do beyond obliterating it we have india we have pakistan we have israel south africa decided to give up you know ukraine gave away their weapons to negotiations but you know north korea as charles you started out with the program they've learned the lessons of regime change so part of the list that into the numerate what michael said is to recognize them is a nuclear power state nuclear weapons state ok that's going to be very tough for a lot of people to swallow but i think it's almost an inevitability and then when you have the unification of maybe south of the korean peninsula maybe those weapons go away too it's a long long process charles go ahead. that's right and this is all tied into didn't our ancient concepts of course of deterrence. destruction and all that now the

things currently stand in for the forseeable future the fact is that north korea does not pose a threat to the united states even if it develops the capability to have a couple of nuclear weapons on board quite unsophisticated i.c.b.m. systems that doesn't pose an existential threat to the us whereas of course the use of those weapons would very much pose an existential threat to north korea the problem is is that of course america has got other interests in south korea that are beyond simply ensuring peace on the peninsula that for example it's we talked about its military facilities earlier there is also a dispute of sorts going on between the south korean government and we're talking about diplomatic. over that deployment of anti-ballistic missile systems there and especially the radars that the americans are deploying which of course are important perhaps not so much for the south korean security but for spying on china that certainly china's fears and so that's quite it's quite

a complex situation in respect of the strategic picture. other countries such as japan it's understandable that they from their perspective see korea a threat with these weapons and therefore that threat needs to be mitigated but the question is how and what is the best way of doing that and it would seem to be the case that with the progress we've made so far in terms of these talks starting in early the beginnings there are many talking about sport but it may go to other issues and hopefully it will that actually when you take the pressure off and reduce the rhetoric deescalate then progress can be made in the canceling all of the postponement of these exercises which north korea sees as a threat to its existence is a start for that process i'm going to go back to michael gives you a real expert one of my experts on donald trump and i'm going to give a silly idea i was like put. up to five going to put up the flag and i want to see if you want to salute this is a golden opportunity for for trump to prove his critics wrong you know think out of

the box be decisive you know put up or shut up you know i mean this it's in the cards he could pull this off if he wanted to ok but does he have the guts or does he have the strength or is he just him did and i'm this is a real serious question go ahead michael. well i think he's being hammered in by the neo cons who want to too. who are who are committed to regime change to to nation building and i think trump needs to go back to his original promise you during the campaign that he wouldn't do either one of those things and yet he's doing them today or attempting to or he's under pressure from a lot of the near constant in order for that that they can remain relevant in this town i think that he needs to. if he's going to look inward into the u.s. to rebuild infrastructure yes foreign policy in effect should become his domestic policy and i think that that that is where he needs to go and he needs to let the

koreas work things out he's got to recognize that that if he takes. military action anywhere it's going to cost tremendous amounts and he's he's always thinking in dollar in terms of dollars so i think that that's going to be a major well you know out of the race i got it also means influence influence throughout the region it what do it what is the going to mean and i want to know what i want him to think about his legacy a peaceful legacy that's all the time we have gentlemen many things of i guess in washington and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here or to see you next time and remember. in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with a tax haven the secrets to trailing and united states dollars pass through most

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america's invasion the u.s. army is on the lookout for software so it can automatically post messages and social media stoking fears it could be used to foment unrest also to an undercover investigator suggests that twitter is preventing this from seeing certain kinds of political content through a technique known a shadow banning and a top girls' school in britain decides it's time to stop labeling its people as girls with a controversial gender neutral policy we hear from some of the like groups.

welcome to day here in moscow you're watching international now the u.s. army is planning some online maneuvers it is on the hunt for a software tool known as a box and they are designed to perform automated tasks on the internet but bots are often need for malicious purposes like sending spam messages and performing hack attacks but the u.s. army is after a more sophisticated till which some fear might be used in actual fact to shift public opinion and unrest to well let's get more details now from he joins us here in the studio just tell us more than about this tool i hope to use andrew well if you go online and check out the federal business opportunities website of the u.s. government you'll find a pentagon request from earlier this week which really caught our attention the u.s. army right now once a software system that will be able to translate between many languages and

these languages include the likes of russian arabic farsi career and some other ones as well so i mean but why should we be afraid of that he leaves. because you know you've got lots of translation apps to the internet surfing and all that because i'm far from giving you the full list of the capabilities and the requirements that were published on that website the tool is meant to understand dialects slang in even emotions in this case plus it must be a tool that's capable of analysis and the content is to be add a life for emotions and sentiment as well. so how could these features then be used well first of all they want the program to be able to communicate with other internet yours users sorry maybe not one hundred percent as a human being but somewhere in that direction just take this requirement that i've got printed out in front of me one of the requirements is the ability to generate

at least three or up to ten unique statements derived from the original social media statement while retaining the meaning and the toe of the original one and again the software will be monitoring the response and analyze the m. packed of the messages and also it needs to be able to improve and somehow upgrade so one of the features is being self taught we asked the pentagon for comment but we didn't receive any response for now the question is though right now when evidence is there is so much being said about russian bots or or trolls in this case what is the u.s. army up to with this kind of sophisticated software that they're looking for because the one hand if we talk about trolls or bots that will be sitting there maybe next to their laptop or desktop typing in these comments or whatever the

trolls are up to this is something that's close to artificial intellect and that's what makes the issue completely different here. a lot of suspicion to thankfully that was. well we discussed the humor the n.s.a. whistleblower william binney and also my five agent. what the really want to do is be able to monitor royce communications or any kind of communications text and be able to assess it and. check it for other threats or things like that or even. some of the manipulation programs even respond . and try to manipulate the other person at the other end so i mean our intelligence agencies had this is one of their objectives why papers are generally

circulated among contractors who do business with the government so it is a little unusual to see these things out in the public as far as i know the most obvious interpretation would be that this is a pushback against the allegations that have been made consistently for the last eighteen months about so-called russian troll farms influencing elections across the west and it's interesting to see that the language is that they're advertising for are the language of iran and of course north korea and russia so that would be a bit of a sort of give away about which countries they want to be targeting. now if you've ever felt that you were perhaps being ignored on twitter it can actually be down to the social network centering you without your knowledge an undercover investigation by anticorruption campaign going project veritas has revealed there is a practice known as shadow banning. one. from one. but you know what i. think but

i want to. know what's well according to project very tasa shadow banders hide the content of a particular user without them knowing and the user continues to post on the platform to their followers but the tweets wouldn't appear anywhere else on twitter people in the video who are said to be twitter employees to claim that these measures target right alina. content with more on this his similar account both the social media giant has presented itself as politically neutral but project veritas seems to revealed otherwise according to several employees who've been caught on camera twitter regulates its content by controlling what its users can see on their feet now one of twitter's policy managers says that the company is currently developing a system that down ranks controversial users and another employee says twitter is trying to ban a certain way of talking online so they're going to go with the single user the

things that neighborhood who we've been there you know. it's good to see them in the mindset of believe the twitter can also apparently dig into its users profiles and conversation history to figure out their political leanings and then determine whether or not they should be banned and another issue that came up was julian assange just twitter account and the fact that it was deleted without explanation a couple weeks ago but an employee was asked about it and he did hint at one possible reason. why. we can't verify if these are real twitter employees or not and if they are they definitely could be lying but regardless the whole issue is definitely something to investigate further. some american reports now will twitted respond to the allegations by saying it is committed to enforcing its own rules without bias and empowering every voice on the platform the group behind the revelations does have

a mixed reputation critics say the project very task fails to provide an edited video of its bombshells with some saying to the group does have a strong political agenda of its own we spoke to russell verney he's the executive director of project there to us it is true overstepping it well if they're sharing information with the federal government voluntarily i think they would be overstepping however whenever you're ready as goes onto a website they agree to the policies of the web so if you work through the per proxy policies of twitter it gives them the right to every bit of information you have opposed you deleted and they have the right to sell that information given away so we're giving away our full work to these companies when they come out and publicly say they want to be the public forms of free speech yet they're censoring free speech they're. doing what free speech killer can't be

heard then there's a problem. that will stay with social media because a facebook post has helped capture a japanese gangland boss who's been on the run for more than a decade. i

. know one of britain's leading girls' schools has decided to stop referring to its peoples as girls in a controversial move to adopt more gender neutral language altering grammar school here for girls defended the policy though saying it is trying to breaking grained habits to help students with gender identity issues adding that we welcome and celebrate diversity although the move has got people wondering how the girls' school should not be described.