america's new top diplomat promises to bring swango to the u.s. state department as mike pompei was officially sworn into office with the full backing of president trump. donald was. the white flag aim to reduce gun crime that paid for 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 a saudi led coalition strike which hit a wedding party in yemen at least twenty people were killed in the attack. on the news of the start of the moments of the the rocket landed on the whole bridge in

a full bar was turning in the many would kill bush from the. world very good morning to you from our team here in moscow you're watching r.t. international with me they care and good to have you with us now our top story this hour former cia director mike pompei o 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 in 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 its official praises a true american hero my palm pale has been sworn in as the nation's chief diplomat and his bowing 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 and well it does look like a good start for the first time ever donald trump ventured to the state department to witness pompei of 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.

pompei a speech was well received by everyone from the media to other officials some didn't even wait to compare of the tillerson saying that he was more open than tillerson ever was pump a i did however stress the concept of american exceptionalism which is generally considered controversial in some circles least i talked in my my hearing about the fact that this nation is so exceptional and so incredibly blessed this is a unique exceptional country russia is unique but not exceptional and he's wasting no time taking the reins of us predecessor my pompei was spent his first days as secretary of state showing support to israel and that was just before israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu made from an lavatory claims against iran accusing. a country of lying about a secret nuclear weapons program for years but pompei was tough stances on iran and other supposedly hostile states are new. i can't think of a thing that is 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 assad 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 un 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 are to 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 peter cosmic a nucleus studies directed affairs u.s. foreign policy might take on a more hostile approach on the pump. donald trump in announcing that tillerson was going to be leaving office said that he disagreed with tillerson about around policy so that was a key factor is not going to disagree with pompei o and that's why the europeans are so frightened it's why one hundred foreign policy experts including fifty retired military officials said to trump wrote a letter saying we should not break this deal with iran it's in the united states interest it's a good deal and iran has been following it clearly pompei o is among the real hawks when it comes to iran policy he's going to reinforce donald trump's worst tendencies along with john bolton the same thing with north korea so north korea

right now looks very very positive 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 if pompei zero wants to be a moderating force a north korea that's great i hope he will also be a moderating force when it comes to iran but i doubt it. exclusive video from yemen now as r.t. has spoken to the groom who survived the sound he led as strike it hit his wedding party at the end of april the attack left over a dozen of his friends and family dead. and there's a subtle at the moment of the bombardment the rocket landed and the whole world turned red and i felt that i was turning in the air and many were killed was trapped now.

there was some victims who were torn in homes others were injured in the stomach head neck hands or legs my cousin died and other relatives were injured and. i came to see the wedding i was looking at people dancing and then. i was here in my leg 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 got us a dozen of the wounded are in a critical condition. we've asked the saudi led coalition for comment on their investigation into the strike so far they've chosen not to respond the saudi led coalition launched its military intervention in yemen back in twenty fifteen in

order to fight the rebels who have around 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 run a number of its own investigations into our strengths that lead to mass casualties and human rights groups continue to call on saudi arabia to end the conflict. facebook is looking to restore some damaged reputation after the data breach scandal involving firm cambridge i listen for the social media giant will introduce a number of changes to the platform including a personalized news filter artie's 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 muses to things make sure people get trustworthy news my 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 errors and burglars 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 academic research 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 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 facebook's working on the platform is also busy getting ready to enter the online dating sphere though not everyone is sold on the idea. no this is going to be there's going to be building real long term relationships are not just.

facebook those they facing criticism over its filtering of news sources as some activists are calling it a form of censorship one organization called the u.s. conservative leaders claims the suppression of right wing news on social media has reached crisis point they say outlets from both sides of the political spectrum should be respected and given equal waiting online but with recent gains in major elections across the globe well if new yorkers what exactly they knew about the term right wing sunday's elections in austria where the latest example of a shift to the right in europe's politics this this shows that the far right wing has won it's revealed polls in germany predict that

a far right party will interpret them and the term the right wing is being used pretty liberally these days we decided to ask americans what does far right or right wing actually mean let's see what kind of answers we get what is far right mean. you're on the way but that be like a nazi in your extreme lee capitalist he's probably a more militant version of right wing. maybe a little more in or. anarchistic view on the world. but just as probably a more extreme viewpoint a foreign far right means very far right. what does that mean. on the right side very far ok donald trump is far right. i think he's trying to come to the sent to because he has to administer right or he was more far right before he became the president i think he's all over the place to tell you the truth i don't know that he has an ideology other than donald trump no not

necessarily and he's right of center dave definitely yes but i mean the fact is he's a former democrat he's not that far right any world leaders that you would consider to be far right. call fundamentalist leaders are far right. and. i think he's right yeah maybe puton but like i don't know you you want i'm not sure. he's considered far right dick durban may be. prime minister of austria perhaps. i don't know there might be a few others it seems that in politics words can be rather hard to define kaleb oppen r. c. new york for me us diplomats jim johnson believes there's a multi-faceted effort by social media platforms to sideline views that don't fit with the company's political agenda i think there's a real concern is that conservative voices are being discriminated against in

social media not only facebook but twitter which i use quite a bit and google and the idea would be to marginalize or stigmatize conservative voices as somehow being beyond the. limits of legitimate discussion and we also have practices what they call shadow banning where there are ways to downgrade content if it's politically not correct so that it has fewer viewers that they try to deem monetize conservative voices so that they can't actually support their platforms in the way that voices on the left are able to do it which evidently is more acceptable in the circles that it which the managers of these platforms operate. the boy scouts of america are set for a name change after more than one hundred years the word boy will be dropped from the iconic organization in twenty nine tate has

a prepares to allow girls to join 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 their name girl scouts is a premier leadership development organization for girls we are and will remain the first choice for girls and parents and a letter to the boy scouts of america last year the girl scouts accuse the movement of performing a covert campaign to recruit goals away from them meanwhile the debate has taken to twitter with plenty of people criticizing the name change. let's be honest the boy scouts as we knew it is now effectively dead girls are not supposed to be

a part of boy scouts they have their own organization called go scouts 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 boys counts in this way the boy scouts are opening the doors to girls due to losing membership and money feminists are loving the boy scouts move not realizing it may destroy the women run going to scouts well we heard both sides of the argument from political activist cakes murtha weight and legal and media analyst lionel. 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 knowing 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 led and actually encourage them to try new stuff

because that's what. it is what it is i have found what this is about and you know it there was an absolute determined effort to destroy whatever was left of this thing called the jones or it's now considered almost like racist or inappropriate to do anything to distinguish boys from girls who are playing that song save 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 arm 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's somehow great to encourage boys to to fight and be super of super rough and super violent 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 girls stuff it's not accurate their stick it's true. started as a movement to curb gun crime u.s. police are now pleading for a trend called paintball wars to stop after hundreds of people have been caught up in attacks across a number of cities in america. you

. know why blow up their window. yeah really well we're really excited and the world is depressed but yeah ok well we're doing. probably so great bars don't start yet we got them all. over. the plate as. well last month a three year old child was killed during what's been described as a paint ball shooting incident in atlanta and meanwhile in north carolina the body of a nineteen year old man was found next to a car covered in paint he died from an actual bullet wound however authorities have linked it to the paint ball war movement where does it come this hour the disturbing video of all foreign cheese in the u.s. tasing a mentally ill man has gone viral well that story and more after this short break

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three officers arrived the twenty two year old's apartment off to a call from his neighbor which reportedly mentioned adam tremelo was threatening to hurt himself tremelo was in the shower when police arrived he was tasered multiple times when he failed to respond to their commands in one instance for thirty four seconds. died less than an hour later according to the medical examiner's reports the manner of his death is undetermined however it was also stated that the taser a used was a contribution factor despite that a county attorney found no evidence against the offices over his death and adam's case is far from the first to have thrown the heavy handed use of tasers into the spotlight.

the be. we spoke to the founder of communities 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 taste him multiple times eighteen times in fact while he was in the bath tub where the person is if their skin is wet much more electricity conducts through their body the sad reality is that tasers are very early very poorly regulated 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 that it's 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 policeman in southern russia is certainly a woman of her word and she's given a new lease on life to eight orphans she promised to adopt them fs son paul theroux through their injuries he received in the line of duty. but.

you know my son who taught at first was took three boys i was their reaction few 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. i need body and they have special needs each with different disabilities and everyone shows their own character it takes time for them to doubt and to explain everything they've been with me for a year and a half maybe even well we're ready. to do. so your thoughts on the day's stories by following us on social media and on as we get at the top of the hour for all the latest headlines i'll see them. join me every thursday on the all excitement show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

palm oil is one of the most controversial products of odds on it's a solid vegetable fat that's very cheap. twenty seven c. in production grew to sixty three million items that rapid growth in international demand for cheap oil has led to the massive expansion of kamel plantations which is the destruction of rain forest. get into these you know a lot more than ten million hiked as of unique rain forest has been destroyed and it's a process that just keeps going. this

is boom bust broadcasting around the world from right here in washington d.c. three blocks from the white house i'm bart chilton. coming up we'll talk about where companies should be advertising in the digital age with michael dell here the c.e.o. of conversion high point and jeffrey tucker is back to talk crypto currencies plus after the break we continue the crypto conversation on crypto currency exchanges with former c.s. we exchange executive or silly s.-t. and alex behala bit helps us understand how one of the world's largest aluminum producers located in russia could become exempt from u.s. sanctions on russia all that's coming up but first we had some headlines. the widely anticipated apple first quarter earnings statement is out and it beat

expectations even as i phone sales failed to take off revenue came in at sixty one point one billion dollars in the figures sparked a five percent after the bell rally in the price of apple stock still apple's i phone sales at fifty two point two million fell below expectations of fifty three million but the company's official statement still struck a bullish tone on the latest most expensive model the i phone x. . and in the energy sector british petroleum has posted an impressive seventy one percent increase in profits for the first quarter and twenty eight thousand writing the tide of rising oil prices profits were around two point five six billion dollars be the expectations closer to the two point two billion level b.p. c.f.o. brian gold very said the numbers showed underlying production growth the oil giant profits were however suppressed by a one point six billion dollars in. payments on toll on a total of sixty five billion dollars in penalties related to b.p.'s role in the

deepwater horizon oil spill disaster in the gulf of mexico the largest marine oil spill in history deepwater horizon penalty payments for the year expected to total three billion dollars and the eighth anniversary of that deepwater horizon disaster just passed on april twentieth. and turning to corporate personnel news the chief executive that document technology companies xerox is now pursuing other opportunities that a parcher of c.e.o. jeff jacobson and six xerox board members as a consequence of a fight within the company over the attempted takeover of fujifilm activist shareholders carl icahn and darwin decent prominently oppose the deal claiming xerox was being undervalued and want to court ruling last week that delayed the deal the judge's decision also made the key findings that c.e.o. jacobson was quote hopelessly can fly.