one of the darkest pages in the war has been the exposure of torture of iraqi prisoners of course at the abu ghraib prison and warning you may find the following images disturbing. he has spoken exclusively to some former abu ghraib detainees who described their ordeal. we all know and when the americans arrived with their tanks we thought they

would read us of the harsh regime everyone will have their own house in a car just like in the wealthy arab countries or in the west but it turns out to be the opposite of what. they would hang a prisoner on the metal door of the cell and subject them to electrocution or you're a nation they would stick a rifle into sensitive areas or they would use a broken broomstick causing internal bleeding the prisoners would need surgery. after i was released whenever i saw americans on the street i would be terrified they would send me back to that place and torture me it still keeps me up at night remembering the torture and they hear the screams. and i got a job to be a look at the the time i spend in the prison felt like a lifetime an hour of that pain humiliation and unjust is stays with you wherever you go i. well. i still have

nightmares and suffered physical and mental pain as if it all happened yesterday i work night and day to try to forget it what we went through and what happened to iraq was a terrible crime it broke us even now i can't get inside of barfed up because it makes me think of waterboarding. the u.k. is seeking a warrant to search the servers of cambridge and their little accused of helping donald trump to win the presidency the data of some fifty million facebook users was allegedly used to predict the choices of american voters facebook claims it's information that was used illegally and what some are already calling the largest data leak in the social media giants history. think back to the last personality quiz you completed on facebook what if i told you that data was allegedly sold to help trump win the presidential election it may seem a bit farfetched but that's exactly why u.k. data analytics company is in trouble with facebook in two thousand and fifteen we

learned that a psychology professor at the university of cambridge named dr alexander kogan lied to us violated our platform policies by passing data from an app that was using facebook logon to s e o king which analytical the firm that does political government and military work around the globe facebook is now under scrutiny trying to explain how the data fifty million of its users was harvested by a trump legs and then let x. company and what appears to be the largest data leak in the social network's history did anyone say the russians have it works in russia or because of russian companies organizations we've never worked in russia as far as i'm aware we've never worked for russian companies who've never worked with a russian organization in russia or any other. country now and then fact one cambridge university professor created a facebook personality app and then simply passed all the info quiet from its users to the third party. the third party is the cambridge analytical company which many

in the media suspect paid at least a part in trouble success once facebook realized it violated their terms they wanted all the data to be destroyed it led both companies to a data feud which of course has the potential to become a lengthy legal battle but according to n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden facebook is really a surveillance company in sheep's clothing businesses that make money by collecting and selling detail records of private lives but once plainly described as surveillance companies branding us social media is the most successful deception since the bombing of war became the one of defense according to twitter more and more users seem to be clued up on data terms and conditions found on social media platforms for the love of god everyone talking about facebook can bridge before you come and please learn how targeting works and that it's commonplace it looks like data might have been leaked but it looks

a billion times worse if you don't understand how data targeting works i don't know about everyone else but the people i know don't blindly trust facebook with information their data was leaked and used against the whole nation you know they continue to refuse to protect the data their time is limited. if i understood this correctly facebook has access to loads of personal data gives third parties access to the states and when the states was abused the major problem is that these facts were leaked shooting the messenger does not solve the problem so it should be no surprise to learn that when you next complete a quiz all pollen facebook there might be an all terry motive behind it. past the hour here in moscow a chef in the u.s. city of new orleans has made white customers pay more for food in a bid to educate people about the wage gap when already as it is nigerian food stand paid twelve dollars while white people could spend either the same or two and a half times more that's reportedly the wage disparity between white and black

people in the city the chef says social pressure made eighty percent choose to pay more for those who didn't apologize if i created the framework where i outline a problem that is indisputable and i position you as an antagonist and i give you a way to solve the problem tidally and be the hero in the moment anything other than the thirty dollars choice becomes anti social behavior that explained to me why the folks who refused to pay the thirty dollars were equivocating because they understood that they were participating in anti social behavior or the experiment has triggered a bit of a mixed reaction while some supported the idea others were offended we put the issue up for debate. there have always been a significant decisive number not the majority but a good number of people who understood the horrible legacy the triple the sea of suffering that african-americans i think it's very interesting that this issue is

being raised by an african who moved here and started the thriving business so he apparently didn't have any problem based on the color of his skin this restaurant owners perpetuating a myth and a myth that somehow white people are in the business of keeping black people down and i think that restaurant perpetuating that most white people get up in the day just like most black people get up in a day they want to get they want to do the best by their family and are really not worried about keeping anybody else down most of the money that's gone in the social programs has gone to the professionals for the upkeep of the buildings the energy it has not gone into the hands of the people if we don't do right by this this country would suffer your guest randy here wants government taking from white people based on the color of their skin and giving it to black people based on the color of their skin and that's just evil we have many historic reasons for poverty in america we hear that more white people in our in poverty than blacks donald

trump has shown the best way to raise everybody's plight is to lower corporate taxes and create jobs black homeownership is at an all time high under donald trump and it was at an all time low under barack obama i voted for donald trump but you look at my skin color and assume i didn't to try to put me in this liberal basket without knowing who you're talking to you assume based on my ethnicity that you know how i thought and how i would argue so you're a good example imagine if i were going in for a job interview i can already assume you think how i am i conduct myself i probably how i live what my family's like without knowing we do need to correct this problem in the country it is an international thanks for joining us so fun our special coverage of lot of your putin's presidential victory that will be for you the break .

join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. american minutes one is the melting. and the second is the radiologist. of strapping of anyone can succeed in america who works hard so this is a whole group of people all generation in america is saying that there is no melting pot we're not being assimilated there's no opportunities we can't live up

so their response essentially is to go into conflict and this is a major. one sunday russia elected as president for the next six years the turnout was almost sixty eight percent with an overwhelming majority voting to give lot of me putin a fourth time in the kremlin he was on red square for the big event. both come to this from red square it's seven zero in the here and we as we digest some of the final results that come through and get some final reaction to it from a number of guests especially because lined up yesterday invests in presidential

election has been for it and it. will be bringing you all the latest developments and yes. but in a putin that pulls off a huge win on sunday getting over three quarters of the vote it means he'll stay on as president and could remain in the kremlin for up to another six years the election result comes with increased tension with the west something that's been reflected in some of the reaction coming in there are tees peter all over your correspondents got the latest from berlin took a long time to get any reaction out of germany where i'm talking to you from when it eventually did come it actually came from brussels in the form of heiko muss the new german foreign minister speaking on his way into a meeting of european union foreign ministers there in the belgian capital city give mr volatile the results of the election in russia which was as unsurprising to was as the circumstances of the election russia will remain a difficult partner but russia will also be needed for solutions to the international conflicts and so we want to remain in dialogue for that was followed

by a congratulations from the german president front. before angela merkel added her congratulations to that list the german chancellor stressing the importance of dialogue in the future is bright to me appeared takes over a fourth term as russian president and she wished him luck with the challenges that he would face during the messages of congratulations coming from elsewhere from china from venezuela run and japan however less congratulatory messages coming out of poland where the deputy foreign minister said that the nord stream to pipeline should be sanctioned that nine billion euro project should actually be stopped elsewhere in the european. union a group of member states headed up by the high representative for foreign affairs federica mark a rainy said that they would not acknowledge the results of the vote took place in crimea they were also joined by. norway in saying that it comes to more congress

tauriel messages they certainly came from the italian president. expressing his actual ations that lie to me at burton and finally from france we heard from mr marquand he said that he wished that to meet putin every success in his new view from george galloway joining us live to little commentator a full member of the u.k. parliament george looking to. your immediate thoughts than this win for the let me approach him he says he doesn't want to start an arms race for a start which is good news for all of us around the world we want to engage in dialogue is this a new message surely not. well it does take two to tango the potential dance partners are currently storming out of the hall and threatening to leave the siege to those inside the ballroom saw i'm not sure how that's going to work out any time soon but it's good that the president signaled that is his wish this is an

extraordinary mandate the german in france reaction is that they don't recognise the votes of the people who cast them in crimea that went along to those polling bo's that made their choice nonetheless france and germany says we don't know about that does that in any way to legitimize the overalls although not as you say. well i think the people in crimea will tell them to go and whistle ninety two percent of the voters in crimea voted for president putin and the quicker they get that bridge up really linking crimea with the motherland russia the better and i think the crimean people have voted with their feet for russia and more than once. this year the vast majority of polling stations were equipped with web cameras streaming everything that happened that meant that anyone could be an observer if

they wanted to write the code but at the top of that the most you know it's paid off as well the practice was first introduced to twenty twelve presidential election and indeed this time it's helped to expose multiple electoral fraud cases in this focus just on this well. thank you. so.

much for joining us here on the international just now turning twenty six minutes past the hour here in moscow with more of your worldwide news headlines. seem wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape our disdain becomes active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the most expensive fish in the world each one is selling for tens of thousands of

euros it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might have a two ton fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way too good at catching. it's only themself a much larger mission was one that was much more widely distributed we have politicians that are in office for a few years they have to get reelected everything is very very short term our system is not suited and is not geared for long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes. of the last selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that still . produce offspring to tell you that what we gossip the public are file for the most important day. off the bat doesn't tell you on the cool enough to buy their product. these are the hawks that we along with our audience

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chilton and coming up the pentagon wants to tap silicon valley to assist with artificial intelligence ai will discuss with todd shipley a virus software plus today just recently u.s. president donald trump announced that there are new sanctions against venezuela's pledging petro crypto currency which was envisioned to assist and stabilize the economy of the latin american nation we have futures in currency experts raihan are what it means as we look at global oil and before we go the german delivery service d.h.l. is set to make a major move in same day delivery in the united states will they do a delivery right all that coming up but first let's get some headlines. russian president vladimir putin has won an impressive reelection victory to his fourth six year term with over seventy percent of the boat while the russian economy has not been as strong as in previous years mr putin is credited with increasing living

standards for russians during his eighteen years in office the victory comes as mr putin is facing increased tensions with western leaders. and breck's at news the european union and the u.k. have reached a conditional agreement on a twenty one month transition period after great britain and britain officially withdraws from the process during that phase the u.k. will have to follow all e.u. laws but will lose any role in policy and legislation negotiators also reach terms on the rights of four million e.u. citizens currently living in the group in great britain but resolution has not been reached on some of the toughest issues including the status of the border with northern ireland negotiators are anxious to find a solution to brics that does not require the creation of a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland which still officially is part of the u.k. removal of checkpoints on that border were a important part of the good friday peace agreement from one nine hundred ninety eight. and last time we met here at the headlines we reported on the proposed

european union digital tax on technology firms like google facebook apple yahoo and some others well the u.s. . treasury see them a new show and says the tax which would per dominantly punish u.s. companies is in retaliation to the trumpet ministrations plan to impose a twenty five percent tariff on steel and a ten percent tariff on aluminum the e.u. is also listed nearly two hundred u.s. products representing roughly two point eight billion dollars of u.s. exports that would be candidates for increased e.u. duties should the e.u. fail to secure an exemption from those u.s. steel and aluminum tariffs for those who could tell that there's no trade war this news proves otherwise. finance ministers and central bankers from the g. twenty group of nations kicked off a meeting today in buenos aires argentina the leaders will race through an agenda full of tough issues including those issues related to those terrorists we just

spoke about german chancellor angela merkel and chinese president xi jinping reportedly planned to use this summit to push a multilateral response to level out global overproduction of steel germany is also working with host nation argentina on a resolution that reaffirms the importance of quote the rules based international trading system while not directly criticizing mr trump the issue of crypto currency is waltz will be discussed by the policymakers ahead of the meeting the brazilian central bank told forbes that quote all of us are in favor of the technologies however as in the past the g twenty is expected to take a leadership role in establishing general parameters for financial reforms and may do so with regard to crypto currency. the former south african president jacob zuma is now facing some seven hundred eighty counts of corruption fraud racketeering and money laundering just weeks after he's resigned some of the charges date back to as long as two thousand and five the arms deal involving b.a. systems based in the u.k.

and sub based in switzerland mr zuma has denied any wrongdoing. i. can hear discussed sanctions that the president has placed on argentina and he's what he's done is he has actually put a ban on the petro the petro is the crypto currency used for several things it's including gold oil and diamonds and it's based it was supposedly going to help the argentinean economy grow out of the sanctions of the u.k. u.s. placed on earlier and away to join us now the currency and futures expert from simpler trading is rajiv horner well she thanks for joining us what do you make of the late breaking news on the sanctions thanks for having me it's an honor to be here these very well then as well and petros cryptocurrency story is an interesting

one because it was it it's a fascinating way that madeira is trying to backdoor the cross border transactions that he knows would not be allowed out of the current sanctions but it opens the door up to what russia and iran might do in response. right now you know they've also talked about doing crypto currency but does this say something about crypto currencies i guess i know you're really an oil person so i don't want to get too far afield but i mean the president has not done anything else with regard to cryptocurrency is but this twenty felt like he needed to do does that mean that he thinks that perhaps the existing u.s. sanctions that this cryptocurrency was going to be a way around them. this is the first time these acts to band a crypt so i think in that regard it's probably more interesting than other crypto news at the moment especially because i'm sitting down underneath you know eighty five hundred so i believe this is really an attempt to do a couple things

a lot of people are already expecting venezuelan oil to be off production anywhere and in iran for that matter to which is going to impact the monthly supply of about one to one half million barrels per day so the impact is pretty significant and the crypto story works into this because you know as well it was actually able to raise approximately seven hundred fifty million dollars and their ambitions were for a full six billion and this is going to derail that completely if the u.s. isn't on board it's really going to sweep the legs out from under my door and with this move great response and i'm and i'm told i said argentina earlier but you help correct me you know one thing that strikes me is the script those less critical questions promise the script those really do seem to be looking for something that based upon something real you can touch and feel whether or not it's the petrol whether or not it's with regard to gold and diamonds or oil or or anything else

wheat or sugar generally seen as a move that way but let's stick with your forte and my super interest and many around the people run the world who pay for gas and oil and that oil so what do you make of the recent circumstance i wrote an opinion editorial not too long ago that i said there is a lot of optimism about oil and i cited the international energy agency figures and some of the u.s. energy information agency figures which talk about supply and demand perhaps being rebalance what do you make of that and do we see prices you see prices going higher given the data. absolutely one hundred percent on track i mean if you look at the seasonal tendencies where between mid february to june or july we have the typical climate for the driving season that's already well underway with another sixty to ninety days behind that but i always look at new news versus old news true news so if you have true and new news and that is right now what we're getting with

the demand story and the reduction in supply so the venezuelan story's absolutely part of the narrative you're out you know to tie that in is so a political because at the moment we have a lot of potential you know millions of barrels per month coming off line and you look at the way they're the opec markets between iran and saudis the opec cartel is going to be duking it out as to where the fairway for crude should be all of this injects a lot of uncertainty that's going to be the volatility that's going to be the higher prices and i absolutely agree where we're looking at the i think what will be a next leg up in crude oil the trick will be who's going to want to limit prices below seventy and that's likely to be iran. i want to get into that but you said something that made me curious we talked about the volatility some of the uncertainty and there's a graph i don't know if you can see it if you have looked at it earlier but it was released with the opec monthly oil report and what it what it shows that in the

last two quarters of twenty seventeen they really missed the mark their production estimates were off by a decent amount predicting pretty low numbers for the first two quarters of twenty eight to eighteen also and then jumping up at the end of the year based on the current cuts that are in place these are the production cuts that opec and and russian a few other nations have put into place do you think that they're going to meet the estimated projections for the for the fall. i think this is where and i like to use i.p.o. shenanigans for this particular description because who does it serve to have these cuts in place and that's going to be the saudis they've pushed that a ramp i.p.o. out to twenty nineteen and i think they need to see crude oil stay above sixty five dollars a barrel they just finish their tour of their round go i.p.o. to frigid response so they're pushing out a year and i think when we start to see these production drops it's going to serve the saudis and i think that's really

a lot of what's behind that right now but if you think a bit what would be a great strategy for them is to have prices stay you know around seventy bucks and then when they go to the i.p.o. then have really an increase in oil prices along with the i.p.o. but given that we have you know the says that we the u.s. going to produce ten point six million barrels of oil per day this year about the same as saudi arabia and we may even overtake russia by two thousand and twenty three do you think that any cuts will ultimately just be out produced by the u.s. . absolutely number two number two our producer right now in the world is us we've got canada coming up brazil so the non opec producers are absolutely going to make up for that what's interesting though is the glut narrative is absolutely off the table even with the u.s. at absolute almost call historic production levels at the moment we haven't seen these production levels since the seventy's so i think that with the glut narrative

out of the way the idea that we're going to see higher demand in the next three to five years the u.s. being the number two produced in the world set to actually overtake the saudis within about three to five years as well that's where this news becomes very interesting and i think a lot of that is going to be taken you know with whatever opec may take off line whatever we might lose to sanctions with iran to sanctions with venezuela the u.s. is obviously going to keep up with that rosy let me just ask you real quickly we're running out of time but do you think the saudis have some sort of grand strategy about sort of you know co-opting people around the country whether the run the world rather the u.s. or russia they announced this thirty billion dollar infusion into port arthur texas into that refinery do they have some grander strategy with the ram cohen everything else going on here that's an excellent question i think saudis problems are much larger than even right now people are talking.