squares anymore because of the u.s. embassy because it is a security issue there so it is a better site i disagree to present voxels a much better site but i think it's just to avoid the embarrassment of the protests but it can't be worse than what george bush faced in two thousand and three with one hundred thousand protesters and five thousand police being deployed in the wake of the iraq war that was for a state visit with the queen so you know no one was are these people were they upset about that is this worse is donald trump's language worse than what bush did to blair in iraq these are things you know we should really ask themselves these questions and why is julian assange being held in the basement as a prisoner in the ecuadorian embassy what does sidique khan have to say about that being in line with londoners values these mentioned city or town here i just want to get on to that point because you also want to buy a bar stance and u.k. foreign secretary or he believes the response from city county the mare of london i'll just repeat what he said he said that trump's got the message that he's not

welcome to come to london that doesn't danger the special relationship with the united states are you in agreement with us so so says the bear to the popping j. i don't think it does i think the u.s. special relationship with britain is long this is based on a world war two marriage of convenience to preserve the interests the transatlantic interests of britain and the us it is a corporate merger a financial merger above anything else these two countries are the two biggest investors in each other's countries so that relationship is going to endure no matter who is president no matter who is prime minister this is a geo political reality in the world of international relations so i disagree with that but it does make good political theater in the short term henningsen executive editor of twenty first century wire dot com always a pleasure to have you on the program thank you. it is now the sixth consecutive

friday the palestinians have come out in force to protest donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as these really capital at least three protesters have been injured in clashes in gaza from where local journalists in could already has been reporting for us while palestinians are outraging the israelis are throwing tear gas canisters. as you see to tear gas were filling the place everyone everyone was in here is inhaling tear gassed and now there are at least two injuries we can see danger right follow. as you can see they endure a strike and the like from the tear gas canisters that were through no wait now on

the palestinian protesters that ambulances are here ready for all the injuries that can be shot so far there are three injuries guys kind of stories have been throat and rubber bullets have been thrown and targeted on the palestinian protesters yesterday there was a palestinian killed in gaza and another one was killed in not this both of them are sixteen year old palestinian. there was referring to the deaths of two sixteen year old palestinians killed in clashes with israeli forces one of the teenagers from gaza was shot in the chest according to reports the other from the west was shot in the head twice in both cases israeli soldiers say they were responding to palestinians throwing stones at them these are pictures from the teenagers the two have become the latest casualties of violence since president trump's declaration of jerusalem as these really capital. the u.s.

army is planning to step up its activities on social media it's now on the hunt for a software tool which can understand and respond to foreign users' online posts and potentially help to sway public opinion but it's not something the u.s. has been advocating against will. was in this you do earlier to with. the classic boss have been out there for ages and we know what they're usually used for that is sending out spam messages in some cases performing hacking attacks but it seems that uncle sam is after something much more sophisticated here if you go online and check out the us federal business opportunities website you will come across a pentagon request from earlier this week and this was something that really caught our attention with the us army wants right now is a software system that will be able to translate between languages most notably russian korean farsi in arabic and we all know which countries these languages are

spoken in this kind of technology of this kind of translation technologies radio there was no hold on because for now i'm far from giving you the full list of requirements the tool is meant to understand and know how to use correctly dialects slang and even a mode g.'s plus must be a tool that is capable of analysis all these millions of posts comments and replies and we all that these things can be really dodgy are to be at a loss for emotion and sentiment that's how complicated it gets key question is again it's probably overused but what's it going to be used for potentially they want the software to be able to communicate with users online maybe not one hundred percent like a human being but somewhat close to that just take this requirement that i have printed out right here it 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 tone of the original again the software monitor and adeline as its own impact from the messages that it sends then it just plus it also needs to be self-taught in a way that it can learn from its own mistakes and then improve an upgrade which provides potentially unprecedented. opportunities for influencing opinion on life company you're going to notice the irony of this big plan is that it's on the heels of the u.s. leaders complaining about all the potential for us about online interference from other parties other countries really haven't been the case when russian troll farms and bots they're all over the media news about that the first question that i asked the pentagon what is your intention guys for this particular new projects we sent them out to request to comment they didn't get back to us for now but the languages are either regions will give you a hint and also some experts have already told us that it's part of the u.s.

campaign could be to expand their online influence in capabilities something that they have been up to for years but really the sophistication of this new project machines being able to analyze the emotions and the sentiment of comments online that's something alarming we talk to n.s.a. whistleblower william binney and former m i five agent on the machine about the push to develop advance bots they outline some of the implications of using such technologies. what they 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 threats or things like that or even. from some of the manipulation programs even respond. and try to manipulate the other person at the other end so

i mean our intelligence agencies have had this is one of their objectives white 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 languages 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 feel your twitter account isn't getting the attention it deserves it could be dial into the social network censoring you without your knowledge an undercover investigation by anti corruption group project veritas as revealed there is a practice known as shadow bombing. one.

shot is. that someone. thank you so she know what she should. think that you know once you hit well you don't see it so let's flash to all that i had according to project for time says shadow hides the content of a particular user the user continues to post on the platform to their followers but the tweets don't appear elsewhere on twitter people in the video who are said to be current and former twitter employees claim these measures target right leaning counted so your account has more and what's been revealed by 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 like it was initially the user of the things that the neighborhood looks to be very good. it's good to see them in the mindset to believe 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 a hint at one possible reason. but you. know. what we can't verify if these are real twitter employees are not and if they are they definitely could be lying but regardless the whole issue is definitely something to investigate further. well twitter responded to the

allegations saying it's committed to enforcing its own rules without bias and empowering every voice on the platform the group behind the revelations has a mixed reputation to critics a project or a task fails to provide on edited video of its revelations with some saying the group has a strong political agenda well we spoke to russell verney the executive director of project for a task who believes the group's methods are justified they don't know they're talking to reporters they're being honest they're not they're not talking to a c.n.n. reporter with a microphone says c.n.n. in front of him and give him talking points so what we do is we have a flawless name of last background story maybe for instance we might set up. a website for job seekers and try to recruit people from a certain company or force certain company and there can be and they can they're talking to a recruiter and join in

a conversation and give away information we may go meet them in a bar be it just happen to be next to them says sitting in a bar we have lots of ways of making friends and in then being introduced from one person to another and getting information we've done hundreds of stories and not one of them is of been proven to be other contact your doctor. can want to stay with social media for a little longer because a facebook post has led to the capture of one former japanese ganglion boss who's been on the run for more than a decade. back

to the u.k. where one of britain's leading old girl schools us decided to stop referring to his pupils as girls in a controversial move to adopt more gender neutral language. school for girls defended its policy saying they were trying to break in grain habits to help students with gender identity issues i mean that quote we welcome celebrate

diversity although some people have already come up with alternative names for the school itself. meanwhile. the word girls from its title we are some of the locals in the area what they think of the new gender neutral policy. i think the majority would be happy to be called it's ridiculous i think girls are girls and boys are boys there's too many pressures on pupils too much attempt to move everything towards gender neutrality i think it actually leads to more confusion

rather than clarification this is a girls' school and it's extraordinary that children are being encouraged to go along the path we're going to have more and more children with mental health problems who are confused and unhappy by all means support children who have a gender issue but don't do it at the expense of the majority do not rob them of their gender identity we only need to apply those basic principles of religion that we treat other people how we wish to be treated and we solve the problem we need to stop for pushing adult neuroses onto these young children. snooping powers have been renewed by the u.s. house of representatives for the f.b.i. president trump making it easier essentially for the intelligence community to monitor communication on the amendment to the foreign intelligence surveillance act has received some unexpected support wolf more or less i'm joined live by killing

my friend on the program they killed just talk us through what all this actually means especially for ordinary americans and what was the russian now as well of those in the house of representatives who bought it. now the congress was debating the reauthorization of the five is a law and essentially donald trump was proposing an amendment to the law that would require the f.b.i. to get a warrant require the f.b.i. to get a warrant before getting access to recordings and surveillance done by the national security agency the n.s.a. now nancy pelosi and many democratic leaders along with many republicans spoke in opposition saying that the pfizer law is fine just the way it is let's take a listen to some of the democrats speaking in favor of this law. as we protect and defend the american people and the constitution and their rights we have to have

that balance was it. spent in the franklin said if we don't fight for it for. privacy security and freedom we won't have either it's not right to say there is nothing in this bill that protects the privacy of the american people from my experience in all of this and weighing the equities involved that that's the path that i will take now the bill essentially you know the privacy provisions that were proposed and supported by trump are being opposed and it's interesting that they would want to give the power to donald trump and the executive branch to wiretap an and have access to surveillance without warrants when they have been quite critical of the trumpet ministration describing it as authoritarian and such let's take a listen to what they've said about the man they just gave a great deal of power. what we saw yesterday was the president didn't clearly

demonstrating that he doesn't know right from wrong true from false his conduct is driven not by honor decency or national security but by wrong prejudice what the president did was totally outrageous totally outrageous now donald trump spoke up on social media regarding the fire as a law and how it may be used and he said it may have been used with the help of the discredited and phony c.a.a. to badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign and previous administrations by previous administrations now when he said that he immediately ruffled some feathers that we saw an immediate response from adam shift of the democratic party saying that trump's claim that he could have been wiretapped or surveilled or mistreated due to this law the fine is the law saying that that's outrageous this is the response to trump's tweet. this morning as my colleagues are aware the president

issued a statement of via twitter suggesting that this authority was used to illegally by the obama administration to surveil and of course that is blatantly untrue so the privacy protections that donald trump was supporting and hoping to add to the five the law amendments have been voted down in the u.s. house of representatives forces that are quite critical of donald trump and have have not really said positive things about him just gave him power to surveil people power that he himself did not want. life from new york city kill up in this hour explaining the ins and outs of the first thank you kelly that's all the news for i feel like no more need about that story and plenty more r.t. dot com you cover and i'll see you again and often hours time this is r.t. international.

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it's being called truce after months of over the top or. the first time in two years serious diplomatic opening up south korea appears to welcome the opening. to washington. greetings and salutations well i think we can all agree watchers that one of the most if not the most important pieces of properly functioning democracy and or republic is an informed and active electorate windsurfer bang today's information landscape in its news consuming denizens tragically one could easily easily make

the case that as a whole properly informed we are imposed definitely not probably even missing the score for example let's take a look at our good friends over at m s n b c who admits their tireless efforts chasing ad dollars while working to properly inform the cable news watching public appear to have misplaced one of the biggest stories of twenty seventeen the ongoing humanitarian crisis taking place in the war torn country of yemen it appears that after crunching the numbers journalist ben norton and fairness and accuracy in reporting have uncovered that m s m b c did not run a single segment the voted specifically to yemen in the entire second half of twenty seventeen and that in all of twenty seventeen m s n b c only aired one broadcast on the us backed saudi air strikes that have killed thousands of yemenis civilians and it never mention the impoverished nations colossal cholera epidemic

which infected more than one million yemenis in the largest outbreak in recorded history. look i'm sorry and as a v.c. but for a purported mainstream global news channel with a liberal bias one can easily argue that that is a pretty significant miss in your broadcast day especially considering the direct involvement of united's of the united states in the destruction of yemen through supplying weapons logistics and revealing capabilities to the saudi air force and the relentless bombing runs that are taking place inside the country even to this day. so let's do what m.s.n. b.c. and so many other news networks are afraid to do and actually start watching all this. you. know you get the. real deal with. the bottom. line

whether they like you like i got. the. local one of all the water parks like robots or up and down capital and. it's sort of shocking to me because these are supposed to be especially m s n b c is sort of is the more liberal more progressive you know we're stance a sort of supposed to be in the middle i feel like amazon is definitely has to be more progressive and i think that their hearts that's the idea of liberalism right lead with your whole right i mean that's how i do it but you know her it really shocks me that they have turned they turned a blind eye to things like and part of the m s n b c family they turn their y. on to the story on harvey weinstein and the beginnings of the me too movement they

turned a blind eye to the story in yemen and i can't abide that as a journalist that it's an editorial decision i find that unsettling it's interesting because earlier in like january twenty seventeen you know fair pointed out that they did cover yemen but they covered it only one of us soldier got killed there and like the botched raid if you remember that light truck got over you know what was first decisions in office and then the american soldier got killed along with a bunch of of civilians but then i mean i worry about how trump handled it was how about this and there were other soldier right and then nothing about the civilian all that's kind of secondary you know and you see that kind of bias but instead of yemen tell about that can you get. s m s n b c instead of yemen what do you think dominated him is and b c air time for the most of last year the wasn't. could it is . russia you are exactly correct i believe russia russia russia yeah yeah break this down for me just just throw in the audience the numbers because

this is truly and i want to tell you that there is no way that m.s.m. can be said it can be said that they did not cover the collusion story with russia completely. and effectively electively fact i mean i don't know all according to fare from july third to the end of december yemen was mentioned in fourteen segments but mostly in passing so as converse leave the terms russia russian or russians were mentioned in six hundred ninety three broadcasts given my them assembly see aired forty nine point five times more or four thousand one hundred fifty percent more segments that talked about russia than yemen and they also found that in the four days between december twenty sixth to december twenty ninth and mehsud b.c. said russia russian or russians nearly four hundred times and twenty three separate broadcasts on all of the major news networks shows including hardball rachel maddow

and meet the press daily. nearly you look at those numbers and i just have to understand i have a hard time understanding how that seems balanced. and how that helps the situation i mean i understand that the russia story is a major story and you're going to talk about i'm not saying no one should talk about it but the idea that a million people of color and yemen and that we played a part in most yeah but that's less really i did you really aren't aware there are two word iraq and you're going to sit back because oh yeah nothing bad happened of iraqi is right and thus that's the biggest thing when you look at you know look like i say it's not because we're the green and black in our two years down in the corner of the television right now but like when you look at like the big when you look at news networks that like oh if you only focus on one thing if the set up you're only focused on one thing you know how many moves stories that we would miss that are important for the american people or the people of the world anyone watching the station that need to hear at least think about pleasure when you get like so total vision all because of ratings and your hatred of donald and like you

know all the right that you're missing out on so much more one of them is yemen i mean look at this like journalist been more than fair also discovered that in all of twenty some. somebody didn't acknowledge the color catastrophe number one it's not i don't want to die or was mentioned was going to get this the only time they mention cholera you know using like nexis and like there are some of these web sites and searching all those the only time they mention caller was in the context of haiti not yemen even though yemen has the biggest cholera outbreak and apparently recorded history maybe they could say yemen yemen the yemen all of that a lot more times and maybe people would pay a time because to me it's like look when you have you know according to the u.n. humanitarian aid office when in two thousand and fifteen over ten thousand civilians have died since twenty fifty or ten thousand civilians have died forty thousand have been injured ten million are need of urgent assistance all due to this war that we are directly involved in even with not with our own jets that we

are bombing al qaeda that it has it's our taxpayer dollars paying for gasoline to power a youth that are murdering we're not going back when that's happening and you're not reporting about it that's a disservice on this are just a disservice as i don't know if you can you can wave the flag that you're a journalist at that point you know maybe not i mean maybe they're fighting there and somebody there say no don't talk about it i don't know but that's something that should be talked about i hope they do you know we will you know we. went can represent fifty one percent of the u.s. population and yet they only account for nineteen percent of congress and it's any wonder we struggle to elect female candidates when women are having their right to vote for the candidate of their choice threatened at every turn specifically with voter i.d. laws say thirty percent of the u.s. you have u.s. women between the ages of nineteen and sixty four live in poverty while only ten percent of men do but if you compare the poverty rates in states with strict voter

id laws like arkansas georgia indiana kansas mississippi texas or virginia something very interesting appears in the data it turns that in that in states with strict voter id laws women's poverty. it's run five to seven percent higher than men's when you combine that with the fact that according to the national alliance for caregiving sixty six percent of family caregivers are women caring for elderly women there's a major obstruction to their right to vote and here's how thanks to the creation of the department of homeland security post nine eleven regulations regarding identification requirements have become increasingly stricter so when say a ninety year old widow who is voted since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight tries to participate in election she will find she can't because of a ninety year old spelling error on her birth certificate or want to married woman is turned away because they haven't managed to spend the hundreds hundreds sometimes thousands of dollars it takes to legally change all of your personal documents to reflect.