america's new top diplomat promises to bring swagger to the u.s. state department as might come peo is officially sworn into office with the full backing of president trump. don't know what. the white aim to reduce gun crime the paintball wars movement in the u.s. leads to a spate of violent incidents and is believed to be responsible for a number of deaths. and we speak exclusively to the survivors of the saudi led coalition strike which hit a wedding party in yemen at least twenty people were killed in the attack. and it was an assault on the moments of the rocket landed on the whole bridge and i feel

bad i was in the many which from a. very good morning to you from our team here in moscow you're watching r.t. international with me thank you aaron our top story this hour former cia director mike pompei it has officially been made washington's top diplomat for foreign policy after he was sworn in as the new secretary of state he's been given a stronger endorsement by donald trump which is in stark contrast to his predecessor rex tillerson who was often at odds with the president. i must say that's more spirit than i've heard from the state department a long time many years we can say many years maybe many decades it's going to be

a fantastic start a fantastic day and that spirit will only be magnified only with this man right here i know that for a fact now it's official praises a true american hero my palm pale has been sworn in as the nation's chief diplomat and he's vowing to make state department great again i talked about getting back our swagger and i'll fill in what i mean by that but it's important the united states diplomatic corps needs to be in every corner every stretch of the world executing missions on behalf of this country as well it does look like a good start for the first time ever donald trump ventured to the state department to witness on post formal swearing in ceremony and it wasn't just trying to welcome the former cia director with open arms as these arrests hundreds of staff members pompei was greeted with cheers and applause thank you.

and he's wasting no time taking the reins for us predecessor my pompei a spent his first days as secretary of state showing support to israel and that was just before israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu made some inflammatory claims against iran accusing the country of lying about a secret nuclear weapons program for years but pompei was tough stances on iran and other supposedly hostile states aren't new any i can't think of a thing that has put america in a better position as a result of this deal every single action the iranians have taken has been bolder and starker than the ones they took before the agreement. a very real danger they are ever closer to having the capacity to hold america risk with a nuclear weapon. it is difficult to imagine a stable syria that still has assad in power he is a puppet of the iranians and therefore it seems an unlikely situation where a side will be sitting on the throne and america's interests will be well served

this is the same man who made a secret trip to north korea to pave the way for trump's historic meeting with kim jong il but bringing peace to the korean peninsula has become a top foreign policy priority for the u.s. administration but judging by the hawkish track records of those surrounding the president you might have to wonder what their real intentions are samir khan r t washington d.c. . after a series of foreign trips mike pompei will spend the next several weeks in washington looking to pick up where rex tillerson left off however peace a cosmic a nuclear studies director thinks the vision of america first could prove a stumbling block for pompei on his diplomatic mission berth korea right now looks very very positive my pump a zero went to pyongyang over the easter weekend and it didn't plan initially to have a meeting with kim jong un but he did have a meeting with kim jong il and the meeting went well that's a very good step it's

a step in the right direction but we know that between now and the time when this deal is concluded there's a hundred ways that it could blow up every day we know pompei as history and that would not make us optimistic that it's going to be a moderating force pump ayos hawkish statements over many years. his openly brandishing his ideas about american exceptionalism. reinforced donald trump's america first policy this idea of make america great again that's not the message that the world wants. exclusive video from yemen as r.t. has spoken to the groom who survived a saudi led as strike that hit his wedding party at the end of april the attack left at dozens of his friends and family debt and. at the moment of the bombardment the rocket landed and the whole world turned red and i felt that i was turning in

the many were killed most shrapnel. so there was some victims who were torn in half others were injured in the stomach head neck hands or legs my cousin and other relatives were injured when. i came to see the wedding i was looking at people dancing and then the king i was he's my like the shrapnel from the rocket. we went to the wedding and suddenly during the celebration the strike came we didn't have anything then no weapons no nothing i lost a foot the same happened to my brother my other brother died because of the bombing we tried to flee but could not walk we had to wait until ambulances came and garces a dozen of the wounded are in a critical condition. well we've asked the saudi led coalition for comment on their

investigation into the strike so far they've chosen not to respond the sunday led coalition launched its military intervention in yemen back in twenty fifteen in order to fight the rebels who overrun large swathes of territory in the north of the country however riyadh says it does not target civilians since the start of its campaign the coalition has investigated a number of strike air strikes that lead to mass casualties as human rights groups continue to call on saudi arabia to end the conflict. started as a movement to curb gun crime u.s. police are now pleading for a trend called paint ball wars to stop after hundreds of people have been caught up in attacks across a number of cities in america. you

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facebook is looking to restore some damaged reputation after the data breach scandal involving fun cambridge and i listen to the social media giant will introduce a number of changes to the platform including a personalized news filter artist jacqueline vega has been taking a closer look at what the changes have to offer. facebook is working hard to revamp its public profile in the wake of the privacy scandal and the platforms move to eliminate fake news from your feed is one such example i have your responsibility news is two things make sure people get trustworthy news and platform and we're doing our job to help build a sense of common ground in society now who's to decide what news organizations are worthy the company's two billion users the social network has already started using the results of the user surveys to determine what news publications will be popping up in your feed and which will be suppressed and the range of outlet is based on

two simple questions have you heard of them and how much do you trust them and that means what's to be believed is based on the opinions of the internet not necessarily facts even flat earth there's unberth others may have cast their votes . we put that data into the system and insights and is a booster of suppression and we're going to dial up the intense to that over time we feel that we have a responsibility to further break down polarization and find common ground some rather wafted goals given that the internet isn't exactly known for bringing out the best in people there's also surely a risk that such a system will only cause people to further dig in their heels and not break down polarization hopes a result that was seen with one of facebook's previous attempts at tackling fake news last year the company pulled the plug on its initiative which had third party fact checkers red flagging disputed articles as it didn't have the desired effect i could them agree search and correcting misinformation has shown that putting a strong image like a red flag next to an article may actually entrenched deeply held beliefs the

opposite of fact to what we intended the big issue here is what. they mean is this credible or informative new source is it what fits mark zuckerberg political view is it what it's facebook's political view. in the terms of unbiased independent journalism i don't see a big success at all i don't see anything which puts a private corporation like facebook who has shown to be not the most trusting of sources of light i don't see anything that putting them in charge of this kind of responsibility could turn out to be successful in a way shape or form for independent journalism so here we are again watching and waiting to see how facebook's latest attempt at social responsibility pans out and that's not the only new feature on facebook the platform is also busy getting ready to enter the online dating sphere though not everyone is solved on the idea.

you know this is going to be there's going to be building real long term relationships are not just talking. now the boy scouts of america are set for a name change after more than one hundred years that would boy will be dropped from

the iconic organization in twenty nineteen as it prepares to allow both to joy we wanted to land on something that evokes the past but also conveys the inclusive nature of the program going forward we're trying to find the right way to say we're here for both young men and young women the scouts movement was founded in the early twentieth century in the u.s. two groups aim to teach boys and girls separately to develop life skills and character however the girl scouts have firmly said they won't be changing then a girl scouts is a premier leadership development organization for girls we are and will remain the first choice for girls and parents. in a letter to the boy scouts of america last year they go throughout the queues the movement of performing a covert campaign to recruit girls away from them meanwhile the debate has taken to twitter with plenty of people criticizing the name change fabulous move forward

i've been impressed by the boy scouts and eagle scouts their focus on the choir in confidence confidence and real life skills always wished they had something as rigorous for girls as a form of boy scout i say this is a terrible idea boys need to be with other boys at times without girls being present to be boys most girls would not want to do what the boys do and it is wrong to change the boy scouts and this week the boy scouts are opening the doors to girls due to losing membership and money the girl scouts organization are completely against it because now the girl scouts will lose membership feminists are loving the boy scouts move not realizing it may destroy the women run go scouts . but we heard both sides of the argument from political activist kate sloth weight and legal and media analyst while. there isn't a great deal of evidence to suggest that only boys want to do traditionally male activities and only girls want to do traditionally female activities there is very

very obvious there are a lot of girls soccer like climbing trees and there are lots of there is like baking cakes and to try to say to young people you have to only do this what we should of course do is give them a range of activities that he's letting them actually encourage them to try new stuff because that's what. it is what it is or i have found that's not what this is about and you know if there was an absolute determined effort to destroy whatever was left of this thing called the jones or it's now considered almost like races or inappropriate to do anything to distinguish boys from girls we're playing in some safe we've got a helmet there was a time when if you were a red blooded american male that's not how they're always learned to have kids with his right hand knowledge and cried i read here and there i mean fine and there was nothing wrong with it i'm kind of concerned with the idea that it somehow great to

encourage boys to to fight and be super super rough unsupervised with each other i think but this is two thousand and eighteen and the idea that it's somehow good for young men to be thrown into some sort of boxing ring i think that we should offer young people boys and girls a whole range of activities and there are definitely arguments in favor of allowing them to do some of those activities and violent marriage definitely arguments in favor of allowing them to do at least some of those activities environment most people think that this is absurd kids are not allowed to be kids anymore people are afraid that there are genders and they have boys like to do boys stuff and their girls like to do girl stuff it's not accurate to stick it's true. of the french state it's got some persuading to do on the islands of new caledonia in the pacific come on that story after this short break stay with us.

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back now president emanuel mccraw and has set off to french territory in the pacific ocean as he looks to persuade the people of new caledonia to remain a part of fronts that's what the island's readying for an independence vote in six months time. there's a spark could do my thing but it will be a socialist involving a lot of responsibilities already low who managed by the government of the provinces.

new caledonia already has other resources like tourism new caledonia is rich thanks to its culture its environment and. if one day there is no one nickel we can still make it. we already thought of every way to live without it it's mostly sovereignty expensive the army defense security justice cetera so we have asked ourselves this question for a long time in a country of two hundred thousand two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants do we need all these structures the answer is no to try. to see if the know when it will only be for the first referendum and there will be a second referendum and a third one so we have time to convince the people it's in their future interest to form this country he managed to share this idea with them they just need not to

refuse it is our goal is to go as far as possible which is for us to close the corner chapters from the. police body count has emerged of offices in the us tasing a mentally ill man eighteen times adam tremelo was later pronounced dead a warning you may find the following video upsetting. well there are. three officers arrived to the twenty two year old's apartment after a call from his neighbor which reportedly mentioned adam tremelo was threatening to hurt himself to mel was in the shower when police arrived he was tasered multiple times when he failed to respond to their commands in one instance the thirty four

seconds. died less than an hour later according to the medical examiner's report the manner of his death is undetermined however it was also stated that the taser used was a contributing factor despite that's county district attorney found no evidence to support their guilt meanwhile it's not the first case of police tell us they use abuse. the old. the but. the above the law.

we spoke to michelle gross the founder of communities that united against police brutality who believes taser regulation is a big problem in the u.s. . the police violated a number of policies first of all they broke into his home without probable cause to do so and secondly they tasered him multiple times eighteen times in fact while he was in the bath tub where the person is take if their skin is wet much more electricity conducts through their body the sad reality is that tasers are fairly very poorly regulated in the united states we started out with them having some rules around using tasers now they literally stick a taser on people they don't want their answer to something and it's outrageous because these devices are dangerous in this case and in many other cases they've proven to be deadly more than fifty percent of the people who are killed by police

in this country are in the throes of a mental health crisis so we can see there is really a problem and we really really need to stop using police as the way that we address mental illness in this country. the mother of one police man in southern russia is certainly a woman of her words has she's given a new lease of life to aid to orphans she promised to adopt them if her son poured through severe injuries here for a seat in the line of duty. but i would not. leave. you long resided to at first was took three boys i was their reaction three months later we took three more then a girl then more children and the last one is this little one we wanted to take the

youngest so we did it. and he eventually and they have special needs each with different disabilities and everyone shows their own characters it takes time for them to doubt and to explain everything to leave been with me for a year and a half the behavior well already. must be to do. what to get in touch and share your thoughts and our stories by following us on social media i'll be back at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines i'll see you that. i am. in a. the eight.

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listen to the moment they're going to have a difficult moment. and these years i live apart from that i don't. know how shameful. to load the gun with a little admission from the. child's seemed wrong but all roles just don't call. me old yet to shape our disdain comes to educate and indeterminate equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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 customs are here permanently all the site is controlled by them and they impose the opening times the opposite it is from his office 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 discreet commercially discreet felt but also discreet 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 system 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 salutation. despite all evidence to the contrary like the orgasmic joy seen on c.n.n. every few months when the united states drops a few bombs on yet another group of poor people on the opposite side of the world spite of all that the last time the united states congress actually declared war was all the way back in june one thousand and forty two against romania of all places as part of world war two this of course leads to one of the great political paradoxes of our time just how does the united states legally justified its constant state of warfare when our pounding paperwork the founding paperwork of

a country the united states constitution quite specifically states that only congress has the power to declare war not george herbert walker not bill c. not not moroccan certainly not the donald enter the ighly controversial and much debated authorization for use of military force or a u.n. that that that along with the national defense authorization act has been responsible for all of our collective killing of poor brown folks around the world since nine eleven representative barbara lee out of california was the lone vote against the back in two thousand and one stating it was a blank check to the president to attack anyone involved in the september eleventh events anywhere in any country without regard to our nation's long term foreign policy economic and national security interests and without time limit in granting these overly broad powers the congress failed its responsibility to understand the

dimensions of its dekker late declaration. and sadly that they have is the a you a map has been stretched about as thin as it could ever possibly be imagined in order to justify u.s. military action in syria and other places and now congress has got that authorizing military force feeling again and particularly u.s. senators bob corker and tim kaine you member tammy rand with hillary out of years ago. both looking to replace the original a you a map with a new and improved trump proof two thousand and eighteen version of the a us map but. they truly trying to put congress back in control of the u.s. war machine or the really just midterm elections smoke and mirrors with potentially deadly consequences let's find out as we start watching the hawks.