saudi crown prince mohamed bin sell blood for the protesters from back radio position activists protesting against saudi arabia's continued involvement since they helped to suppress the revolution of the two thousand and eleven to those opposing the arms trade and the war in yemen one of the people we spoke to was the labor m.p. chris williamson the british military advisors to be involved but takes it to a whole new level and frankly trampling on britain's reputation as a nation the stance of the human rights that we've got no place seems to be selling arms to saudi arabia and certainly we should not be participating in facilitating the or why having military advisors there now since the saudi bombardment of yemen began in two thousand and fifty the u.k. has sold over four and a half billion pounds worth of weapons while the us. still worth over one hundred ten billion pounds some of the biggest deals in u.s.

history and the visits of the have been selma also being raised in parliament today by the labor leader jeremy corbett a humanitarian disaster is now taking place in yemen million his face starvation six hundred thousand children have cholera because of the saudi led bombing campaign and the bloc a germany has suspended arms sales to saudi arabia but british arms sales have shot me increased and british military advisers are directing the wall it cannot be right that her governments this is cannot be right that her government is colluding in one of the united nations ses is evidence of war crimes but it's also to be mentioned that in addition to these hundreds of protesters there is a school council protest not. a couple of dozen people who are here to welcome the

haven't been selma so long that but in any case this protest definitely the larger of the two. a former russian policeman has been sentenced to life in prison for a series of murders which have shoppes the nation yet get killed at least nineteen young women starting in the late one nine hundred ninety s. it was only course two years ago.

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truth. which i would just want you to do so then i do know. there's been an outcry in the us softish emerged a saudi national with suspected links to al qaeda was able to live freely in the country for seven years lawmakers are now asking why the state department granted the man a visa. as the details may be hard to believe but the alleged al qaida terrorist has been living in the united states for seven years unnoticed saudi national naive flower flawed is now been arrested and at this point members of congress want answers about how this was allowed to happen in two thousand he attended an al qaeda training camp two thousand and eleven he moved to oklahoma on nonimmigrant visa joining his wife in two thousand and sixteen he was even able to get

a pilot's license however that was revoked when the f.b.i. finally started an investigation now he is in custody awaiting trial on a number of charges the indictment charges two counts of these a fraud. the third gun charges self launch with making a false statement to the f.b.i. when he denied ever having associated with anyone from a foreign terrorist group he may not have been able to enter the united states of authorities had actually been able to pay more attention it turns out that back in two thousand and one his fingerprints were actually found on an application to a terrorist training camp furthermore his father was named as a person of trust in an al qaeda document now at this point that data was not able to be analyzed until twenty seventeen. i'd say there was a number of breakdowns going back to where the original intelligence was maintained in schools he should have been on the watch list you know who was on the list oh

marmont teen the pulse nightclub shooter recently released cell phone records indicate that just days before the attack he was considering whether or not to attack disneyland he was on the f.b.i.'s radar screen after making threats against his coworkers and claiming to have ties to jihad ists however after ten months of monitoring and three f.b.i. interviews they determined that he was quote not violent or dangerous after he did carry out his attack the f.b.i. said he had self radicalized on the internet we're working hard to understand the killer and his motives and his sources of inspiration. but we are highly confident that this killer was radicalized and at least in some port through the internet so the internet did it ah well remember that florida school shooter apparently he left tips on the internet that he was planning to shoot up the school people called the f.b.i. about it but they never bothered to look into the matter if the there's a term in the protocol was not followed. the information was not provided above and

below office. and no further investigation was conducted that. this is an ongoing failure of the united states and it's not just the u.s. it's also in europe to properly vet these people and the f.b.i. had ample warning that the orlando attacker was a threat but because he was muslim but they did not want to look into it they did not want to seem that they were targeting these certain religious groups even reports that come out with school shootings in the united states where the f.b.i. many times received a phone call warning them bout the shooters and nothing happened because of that the f.b.i. did not follow up so i think it's not so much a lack of resources at it as it is a lack of knowledge or understanding about the threats that matter the most. ukraine has seize the assets of one of russia's biggest gas producing companies long not after the break.

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back ukraine has started seizing assets belonging to russian energy giant gazprom following a long term dispute over gas supplies. trying to join kevin in the studio to discuss the story. well it's one of these cases when you can easily say not again russia and ukraine could be on the brink of an all out gas war again as you've said kiev's begun seizing the assets of russia's energy giant gazprom but a few days ago gasper said it was scrapping all sales and transit contracts with kiev however there is something for you to bear in mind no matter what happens in politics all the difficulties between kiev and moscow the ultimate

reality has been that ukraine has been relying on gas imports from russia all along for all these years eastern and central europe to a massive share of these gas supplies is delivered through ukraine if there's jenga tower of contracts for purchases the transit and all the political issues to top all that off collapses staying warm in eastern europe during this very cold spring as we all know could become an issue the there's been a blip couple years by a nasty said there was a blip in the. believe ukraine was siphoning off some of the gas will come out of it and sitting ok because russia wants to be seen as a reliable partner doesn't it so to try and get this kind of the catalyst for where we are now was a recent. well ukraine's nafta gas and russia's gas from have been settling their disputes and

a stockholm arbitration court and in the last few years there have been so many issues and between these two but just a short while ago one stockholm tribunals decision forced the firm to pay the russians a sum of about two billion u.s. dollars that was basically a gas bill that they hadn't paid but then the latest decision was that russia's gas brom must pay. ukraine's nafta gatt is more than four point six billion u.s. dollars and that was for abusing their position as a monopoly and if you do the math then moscow and he have more than two point five billion u.s. dollars and the boss is aghast more extremely unhappy they were saying that the reasoning for that was completely unfair and that they're just bailing out a shattered economy which many times as we've seen just couldn't pay for the gas

that they were buying now arbitrates is just a fire the decision by the show of deterioration in the economy we're categorically against the grain is economic problems been solved expands so russia ukraine gas wars have happened before and it has previously led to energy crises in the region those in the west as you were saying for now they don't have to worry about anything and again it's not in any of russia's interest to spoil this reputation as a reliable partner but previously kiev has been caught for illegally siphoning off russia's gas intended for europe so there have been disruptions in gas deliveries but obviously russia had to protect its political and economic interests and technically it wasn't gas rahm's fault. head of nato yen stoltenberg says the alliance plans to maintain its military presence in iraq as

long as it has the approval of the country's government. they do all of the wrong if we are invited to the government wrong. the reasons why we are planning for scaling up our training. quest from the iraqi government. the second we have no intentions to stay longer than necessary will stoltenberg a speaking jaring erev is it to bang down after the iraqi prime minister authorize further nato operations against meisel but the premier's willingness to allow foreign troops to remain in the country is in stark contrast to the views of parliament last week lawmakers called on the government to set a timetable for the withdrawal of all foreign forces well there are currently six thousand five hundred foreign troops stationed in iraq will inhofe of them are u.s. personnel australia has the second largest contingent followed by italy former u.s. congressman ron paul believes there's no justification for the continued military

presence in iraq. our governments whether they're of the democrat party or republican party they're generally in dorsey's the idea that we have this moral obligation to straighten everything out and they use it as an excuse but there's always other reasons for doing this there's a group of people who see some secondary gain and there's a lot of property being made in oil support and all these things it's just time to come home where i'm buying their own business and we ought to save the money and we would be as strong as ever if not a lot stronger with our independence. because of the disruption and the chaos in iraq al qaeda has moved in so they weren't a problem under saddam hussein was not friendly with with al qaida it's a reaction to our policies our policies stir up these hatreds in the organizations

of the radicals. well for more on these and all about stories guys who are otherwise i'll be back with the latest headlines in just over half an hour. back i don't. want to see. imax keyser one more of my guide to financial survival this is done in

a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these hedge funds are simply not accountable and we're just getting more and more to them. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for a while because we are. both the united states and russia have announced their nuclear weapons posture both countries are in tree a new age of war the age of hypersonic weapons we now in the new arms race. you're calling say that. something is good in kosovo oh but. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero but for four. or whatever. the principle is good all the principle is but has to be apply equally and that is.

in the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox ellis was customs are here permanently all the site is controlled by them and they impose the opening times. opposite the possibilities from these all plus the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe masterpieces by artists like pecan so and modigliani i can't boards and sold inside this warehouse that's where the report comes in it covers up deals which are naturally discrete commercially discrete step but also discrete because they concern fraud. some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets a kept inside the geneva freeport certificate and you'll never obtain an inventory

of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the world's black box of the art business. greetings and salutations today the united states of america exists in a perpetual state of war and the one telling you otherwise is probably running for office or selling you a bald eagle silver dollar on television about three four in the morning the most us citizens may never directly confront or be forced to confront the results of this twenty four hours a day seven days a week neverending red white and blue war machine that doesn't mean that it hasn't already embedded itself into the very fabric of our day to day experience take this

week's revelation of the pentagon's cozy new partner of all things drone internet search giant google because moto kicked things off reporting that google is helping the defense department develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone a move that set up a firestorm among employees i guess for some folks working over a google the idea of helping the pentagon with the next evolution of drone surveillance just didn't quite sit well with them you know because google's standards of decency are just so high. leap bag of the intercept illuminated just what the new ai will be doing writing that google is working to develop deep learning technology to help drone analysts interpret the bast image data vacuumed up from the military's fleet of eleven hundred drones to better target bombing strikes against the islamic state and that essentially the idea is to provide recommendation tools so that the ai program can quickly single out points of

interest around a type of event or target so that drone analysts can work more efficiently so basically they're giving them the dr evil version of google maps. you know you get that warm fuzzy feeling in the pity your stomach when you when you see silicon valley in the pentagon getting together for a good old surveillance barbecue sunday brunch. well but let's break up some rolaids and disrupt this sunday brunch and start watching the hawks. what would you look like a real that would. lead to the plot of. what it looks like you know i got. this.

week six oh. well good morning all the water in the hearts i am so open to and i'm south of the wallace and today we're talking about a lot of things about the military and the armed services and this a man google doing where you're surprised that google went evil well i'm going to surprise a google what do you mean google in their search engine has already been alleged numerous times of what you know readjusting research to kind of push certain sites down and elevate other sites that they believe are better than others and some of them might surprise when i hear news that google was suddenly helping develop. you know the military's drone program that's killed hundreds of thousands of people no no no i'm not because there's money right of course and that's probably one of the main reasons that they're doing i mean i'm sure it's odds and you know google is just sitting around going how you can we make more war i'm sure they're saying look you've got amazon you've got microsoft they're making tons of money with their

cloud computing services with the the armed services and with the pentagon good point so it makes sense for them to try to to wrest control of a little bit of that business but the one thing that's noted in the industry a lot even from google's detractors is that they are they have up until this point been very careful at how they're what technology they give or used to provide to the military how it's you so interested. interesting whether or not that will continue when the dollar signs become enough and in this situation it's that dollar side and that's that pressure write legibly wanted if you want to turn a c.e.o. it's like a look at this juicy government contractor we can get you that we can you know build in perpetuity and you know we give so much of our tax dollars away to corporations and what yeah essentially is like you know military industrial welfare though we need you know we talk about welfare welfare you saw welfare queen you know that i could see there is that tempting thing for google i want to get into that what's also interesting about this though is is this

a i and military and the use of artificial intelligence in the military which is really i think many are feeling is kind of like this generation's nuclear program yeah oh including on that level there's you can really change the face of the planet. because we've all seen we've all seen the movie trailer exactly the terminator and the other are many other one and the other one and the other one and resty inspections are you know what i got and that has not been timid or they haven't hidden their desire to kind of utilize ai and the gypsies the silicon valley them and courting them for years you know take the defense innovation board oh sorry didn't twenty sixteen this was designed to encourage military adoption of breakthrough technology according to lead fang of the intercept he wrote that the board released a set of recommendations that stressed the importance of adopting artificial intelligence and machine learning stressing that technological superiority with ai

is as important as nuclear weapons in the one nine hundred forty s. and with persuasion guided weapons and stealth technology afterwords wow so it has no technical superiority and is just there to cause here's a limited man. is this push by the pentagon to harness the power of artificial intelligence and you know that's the biggest question on the table is it going to come back and bite us like those same groups. time to suit businesses the set up in bed with the pentagon the develop the atom bomb and did all that you know then basically develop weaponry that could end the world a hundred times over are we going to see that same twenty thirty years from now we'll look back and say what were we thinking i think it's fifty fifty i think fifty percent of it being what were you thinking in the other fifty percent when you really look look at things and sort of see the perspective is that the is. i just don't think that just like nuclear weapons yeah they were but it's not like we used them a bunch after that we just keep making them but we don't use them but the fear is

right the whoever uses it first. you know it's like when we drop the ball the right let me use it though one time the other groups a good point to the other group the group or. the army marketing and research group or a.m.r. g.e. is the marketing and branding arm of the u.s. army they get help from some of the top advertising executives in the country from b. all you can be army strong billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent to enhance the perceptions of the u.s. army here and around the globe however when the army began to review its contract from the incumbent agency mccann and accept competing offers something strange became clear to everyone first in october of twenty seventeen the army auditing agency's analysis showed that only three percent of tore through only three of twenty three about thirteen percent of the marketing programs generated a positive impact in the air in addition the a.m.r.

jihad only bought one of its six established performance schools the second revelation really was that the gave their current agency mccann an advertising direction sheet in which they laid out plans to take business from other contractors and move it to make can see this violates federal acquisition regulations by creating a conflict of interest according to the guidelines it is developing or approving any contractual documents to include documents defining requirements incentive plans and evaluation criteria during the bidding process is forbidden. finally one of the competing contractors found that mccann was getting special treatment and being allowed to steal their business in violation of those regulations and the reason behind it is as old as time the director of the a.m.r. gene was james ortiz and on october fourth twenty seventeen in the midst of being investigated for waste and abuse the mary james or tease was filmed in alexandria virginia bar having a romantic evening with mechanics of molly berkeley when pictures emerged an

investigation began and what were tears has been. find and berkeley has left her job at mccann there are some major problem within government agencies like the a.m.r. g lack of oversight clear guidelines for performance and a seriously compromised executive level staff why when you brought this story earlier this year i was like them if this is private i mean it's i mean that kind of money and they would it would be a very different issue there's nobody that we keep their job with those kind of performance ratings and that kind of spending and then to find out your you spent years in the marketing industry and hollywood even if it would mean you know that in the street for a service of what do they promise the world but do they really deliver but you know that it just it just blows my mind the i mean there's a lot of coverage four billion dollars spent over ten years of the there was little to no return on investment no

a little below four billion tax dollars taxpayer dollars taxpayer dollars whoa you know when you look at there are the all of the campaigns the truth is none of the very expensive campaigns marketing campaigns of this like half century have really been that successful as as if you look at something from a real return on investment ok so be all you can be was somewhat successful and that was because of one thing because we went from a draft army to an all volunteer army and so it gave people this idea of like it's you you your identity and joining the team what ended up happening next was if you're a member there was the army of want army of one people i hated it was a good sleep disaster because it had it was like there's a warrior if you remember the ads i was like a war there's like battle over here and you have one guy like walking away from. its road troops it was terrible like you know not make the cut you know we can was behind army strong again army strong is not been good at recruitment and hasn't

gotten people in the door and i think what you're looking at here is when you look through the numbers is that there's something really crucial and that's a big secret that marketers won't tell you is on the let it out it's like a militia it is more money does not equal a better return for your investment. i swear in marketing more money isn't the answer people will tell you that because they get it cut your advertising agency is going to say you got to spend twenty twenty million on on t.v. ads you want to know why because they get a percentage of the t.v. . so that's kind of where it is when you're talking about people army stronger this has a you have to get people to put their life on the line what they need to do is focus on word of mouth and actual on the ground staff all the commercials in the world won't make someone put their life on the line well and remember the military like the military and the pentagon have gotten caught in propaganda advertising issues all over the place because we were there and exactly i was just thinking about that

and other mccain fabulous you know them by because. stone pointed out in his in his documentary and hollywood do you see that they've been trying to generate something to you know paint this image that we being a perpetual war is a good thing in today's day and age but twenty i mean when you look at this audit twenty different programs cost a collective thirty six point eight million in twelve sixteen alone the air margy response to all of this is that the auto ignores that marketing recruiting are separate activities and that they have a lack of marketing understanding or criteria for performance assessment lack of understanding to. this is rich the super rich so what they're trying to say is that although their job is to increase recruiting the fact that recruiting has gone down should not affect our just our opinion about their job performance good point.