i am. now i am. this is extraordinarily violent time it's been a very bloody two months here the beginning of this year it is really hell on ground for the children it is very difficult there are problems arguments they are scared they are seeing death and violence at

a scale that you would hope no child would see there is a lack of food and water it brings to see many of the families are crowded into small spaces and basements. president trump has signed a controversial order imposing hefty tariffs on steel imports to america the move has faced fierce backlash both from abroad and within the u.s. but trump insists it's needed to protect the country's national security today i'm defending america's national security by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum the american steel low milage astri has been ravaged by aggressive foreign trade practices. it's really an assault on our country despite domestic and international backlash trump has signed a proclamation imposing twenty five percent tariffs on steel imports and ten

percent tariffs on minium imports encouraging companies to buy american well the president argues that protecting these industries will guarantee economic and national security however truck has offered relief to some u.s. allies of the tariffs will not apply to imports from canada and mexico at least temporarily until nafta is renegotiated even though trump has received some domestic applause from unions in particular that wasn't the case internationally when he first announced these new tariffs on twitter the world was furious. you should try it you want to change your choosing a trade war is surely the wrong prescription trying to make it appropriate and necessary to respond but we have to find our interests if we need to come.

i'm convinced that increased terrorists will hurt us all in the long run trade will stop bad and easy to lose. well trump has stated in the past that he sees nothing wrong with trade wars and now other allies are threatening tariffs on u.s. imports of peanuts juice alcohol etc but trump's move has been met with domestic backlash as well from both democrats and republicans who believe that protectionism harms national security now more than a hundred house republican members signed a letter on wednesday expressing deep concern about the plan suggested to change the course of action to avoid untended negative consequences to the u.s. economy and its workers but considering that to canada and mexico have been exempt one can't help but wonder if these new tariffs are intended to hit china trump has listed china as a threat to national security and he's repeatedly expressed the need to counter china so we can't be too sure. when unveiling the tower of how the white house was

apparently so excited that he did get one of the room details would you like to take a picture in the oval office i assume you've all been many times into the oval office come on let's go and do that let's go into the yes i'm going to will go into the oval office we're going to sign this will go into the oval office we have a picture ok ok thank you the treasury secretary. reminding the president that he actually needed to sign the order first before saying cheese the plan has received broad support though from sealand. in the u.s. but economist jeffrey tucker says it could actually force key u.s. allies to export elsewhere. it seems that every european nation is washing their hands of the u.s. . we're no longer trustworthy trade partners in light of this and so europe is seeking other allies china get pandered to australia you know anywhere in the world

the u.s. and this is been growing for some months is that i say this is becoming isolated and there in the global economy and let's not make any mistake about this in the twenty first century there's no such thing as as as nations when it comes to economic affairs in the more we all must cooperate together and the u.s. is excluding itself and giving up its credibility trump is doing here is contrary to the national interest and the good of the world economy. donald trump is also of course many off guard by agreeing to meet face to face with the north korean leader kim jong un only recently the two were engaged in a twitter spatafore who had the biggest nuclear button is our correspondent. we heard the announcement and now we have confirmation from the white house that yes a meeting will take place between kim jong un and us president donald trump now this

would be the first meeting between the head of state of the united states and the government of north korea their head of state this is quite a surprise to many people we've heard secretary of state rex tillerson who recently said that the usa was a long way away from any negotiations with north korea i don't know yet until we are able to be ourselves but as to face with. representatives of the world. whether the conditions are right you could be doing if you about negotiations determine your direct talks with the united states and u.s. negotiate sions or we're always from the go to asians and furthermore we've seen that the united states recently impose new sanctions on the country now there's also been quite a heated exchange and war of words between the two leaders in recent months the. year of strategic patience. with the north korean regime has failed.

utterly is. not make anyone ready to say. they will be met with fire here in. the u.s. and the next international community will stop this piece on the korean peninsula. and we can have a madman out there cuban rockets all over the place have no choice but to totally destroy north korea and. russia. is on a suicide mission so no one from the suicide. is a sick puppy. donald

trump has said that the sanctions recently placed on north korea will remain in place until any agreement is reached and pointed out that in the lead up to the meeting north korea has agreed to freeze any ballistic missile testing any nuclear testing or proliferation so at this point other seems to be a free in north korea in anticipation of a meeting now we understood that this meeting will take place before may and the location and time are yet to be announced still to come here on the program on russia's foreign minister has reacted to allegations the kremlin had a hand in the poisoning of a foremost spy in the u.k. and that story and much more after the break.

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one twenty pm on friday here in moscow the russian capital now saying it's open to genuine requests for help regarding the investigation into the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. is using to do so will this help is of interest as it was investigated regarding the poisoning of u.k. citizens get over lou gossett about meddling into the u.s. election or anything else if russia's assistance is indeed we are ready to consider that possibility that one should not go on t.v. but accusations like this but instead use official channels including law enforcement. or went out by correspondent medina cochon of medina can you bring us up to speed what do we know at this point. well the case broke last we can't when an example agency and his daughter were found on

a bench in critical condition and the city of souls bury in england now he formerly worked as a double agent for the u.k. intelligence agency m i six and was jailed and russia back in two thousand and six for spying for britain he was later released as part of a swap deal and shortly after this incident most of the british mainstream media was quick to speculate that russia was somehow behind this poisoning. bad things have been known to happen to russians who crossed vladimir putin the fact that a nerve agent was use strengthens the likelihood that this was a state sponsor of some sort and russia is the chief suspect of course the u.k. has turned a blind eye to assassinations on its soil and has instead tried to protect the kremlin well we've heard such accusations before during the investigation into the death of the former k.g.b. agent alexander litvinenko who was poisoned and the u.k.

over a decade to go but at that time also no hard evidence of russia's involvement was presented by the british investigators and now in this case russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has also saying that no real facts have been presented itself russia's involvement and calling all the wrists and a media accusations hysterical. most of it. being accused not only of this western palmistry accuses of basically everything that's going wrong with this planet it's not serious it's just it's late in propaganda and his. studio in the u.k. home secretary is also calling for average one not to jump to conclusions but to wait for the official results of the investigation so far twenty one people including the former double agent and his daughter. were are were exposed to would turn out to be a nerve agent now the investigators three fuse to reveal what specific poison it

was and while mrs cripple and his daughter remain to be in critical condition the police has cordon out his home as well as the graves of his wife and son who died and the past five years says they believe that these locations can provide further details in the investigation. and artes and in a culture of thank you. google is facing a backlash from its own employees over its partnership with the u.s. department of defense the company is cooperating with the pentagon under the military drone a project maven google is developing artificial intelligence to analyze drone video data the tech giant has defended his involvement in this military project the technology flags images for human review and it's a non-offensive uses in military use of machine learning not she raises valid concerns we are actively discussing this important topic internally and with others

as we continue to develop policies and safeguards around the development of the swim a she in learning technologies the u.s. military makes extensive use of drones according to the bureau of investigative journalism since two thousand and four almost five thousand drone strikes have been confirmed it's thought of these have killed around a thousand civilians at the end of last year google's then executive chairman expressed fears to the military was exploiting technology to kill there's a general concern in the tech community. somehow the military industrial complex using their stuff to kill people and correctly if you will where. at one time google's motto was don't be evil and one former cia analyst and whistleblower told us why the tech giant is finding it hard to stick to its principles. you know this is the dirty little secret of corporate america and that is that practically every

major corporation no matter what sector it's in is cooperating in some way with either the defense department or the intelligence community let's say you're the c.e.o. of a company and the department of defense comes to you and says we want you to help us do x. y. and z. and you say no i can't because our slogan is don't do evil they say your country needs you and because you're a patriot you have to help your country and believe it or not that's a very convincing argument and ninety nine companies out of one hundred will do what's asked for them. now voice operated electronic assistants like siri or alexa are getting ever better at their jobs but also at the creepy as the ai inside gets a little too human for example just out of the blue it decides to stop laughing at you.

are we really that desperate for approval that we need the machine to laugh at us election people have been reporting that you've been spontaneously laughing. oh i'm like live. lives i live. thanks for sharing your friday with us here on the international my colleague here to bring you more news in half an hour.

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this photograph is gone viral it's a striking illustration of moral strength and fortitude here you can see the students of rwanda's one and only classical ballet school. a sharp contrast to the country's brutal history and nine hundred ninety form about one million people were killed in rwanda chances once a day. slaughtered by their neighbors. in. rwanda some of the trauma of murder and brutal violence of intertribal conflict today just over two decades own the nation has recovered to the point of becoming one of africa's most peaceful countries where children are now attending ballet classes.

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a pool ninety ninety four virtually all western missions including peacekeeping ones evacuated people from the wonder. later during a visit to the country they use. as president bill clinton said on c.n.n. i don't think we could have ended the violence but i think we could have cut it down and are aggressive. in nine hundred ninety four a conflict between two rwandan ethnic groups not much different from each other suddenly erupted. to see neighbors. this was slaughtered daily. and you're. not your house i mean. this is what you want to call got you know say look you're young boy who live in a school not because of the admission charge you have a truck bomb by young muslims that's why you don't kabul for buffy.

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