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itself it appears to have been a pretty badly kept secret earlier this month the czech president milan stehman said that the czech republic can hand produce to and stored albeit a slightly different strain of the nerve agent to the one used in souls brave but nevertheless that country shouldn't be hypocritical about this. small amounts of money were produced that in the czech republic we know well and we know where it would be hypocritical to pretend that such a thing never happened. however politically moscow has been cast very much as the unequivocal perpetrator of the soul's bre attack to reason may said that it was highly likely that russia was behind the attack on the script take a lesson where all called for news about the identity of the culprit no other country has a combination of the capability the intent and the motive to carry out such an act
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calls alternative explanation but due to explain. this. to you the clothes even are actually able to forgive. the bullets clearly that's what the politicians have said but the head of the government lib oratory here in the u.k. that was analyzing and identifying the sample of the nerve agent used in the attack porton down the head of that government lab hasn't been able to confirm the origin of the nerve agent itself used in salisbury and now some news outlets are saying that these revelations show that a whole wrong countries have had a sample of this nerve agent for nearly two decades now and as one of the newspapers that published this investigation has said this british theory that the poison could only come from russia shows unjustified confidence
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in the media says that those behind the investigation have requested comment on the revelations from both german and swedish governments but burden said that it wouldn't discuss the intelligence issue while stock said its not aware of any involvement. in order so it's president has found protections to kim jong un to make north korea quote very rich if pyongyang agrees to the deal proposed by washington of a possible top level meeting between kim and donald trump. well actually have a good relationship assuming we have the meeting and assuming something comes of it and he'll get protections that would be very strong his country would be very rich is people are tremendously industrious if you look at south korea this would be really a south korean model in terms of their industry in terms of what they do the hard work and incredible people. of course when killam open now joins me live from new
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york ok it started out with threatening fire and fury towards rocket man now he's promising riches for the leader is north korean citizens where do we stand in terms of war in this relationship now where you have to remember that for the last several decades donald trump has been very well known as a businessman he actually wrote a book a best selling book called the art of the deal so we shouldn't be surprised to see donald trump out front promising all kinds of riches to north korea if they agree to his deal and furthermore we shouldn't be surprised with him indicating that things might not be so rosy if they don't go along with it this is another statement we've heard from donald trump and i think when john bolton made that statement. yeah i think that's what denuclearization means and we have very much in mind the libyan model from two thousand and three two thousand and four he was talking about if we're going to be having
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a problem because we cannot let that country have nukes we just can't do it the model if you look at that model with gadhafi that was a total decimation we went in there to beat him now that model would take place if we don't make a deal most likely. now libya by bringing that up that's certainly a threat now libya was the most prosperous country on the african continent until two thousand and eleven the government was overthrown and the country has been in a state of civil war ever sense you know people are fleeing it's just in utter chaos so bringing that up is certainly you know the using both the carrot and the stick as some would say now north korea is also you know using the hard negotiation skills we've recently heard north korea threatening to pull out of the negotiations over the provocative military exercises that are taking place in south korea for a long time these drills have been taking place and they're essentially
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a rehearsal according to north korea for invading this is a provocative military exercise you have the u.s. forces there the south korean forces kind of rehearsing all out war with the north so north korea is threatening that they might pull out so we're seeing both north korea and the united states kim jong un and donald trump you know playing a hard negotiation game in the lead up to this planned meeting hopefully resolving the crisis on the peninsula so the whole world is watching them waiting to see what happens next both sides are are playing it hard both sides are trying to see if they can get what they want out of the deal so everyone's watching to see what will happen next and thanks to a correspondent caleb open that is live from new york. next a stifling of free speech that's the cry from twitter users to news that the messaging that words launch special algorithms that will suppress some accounts recent changes are part of
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a project called serving healthy conversation it was introduced back in march and the algorithms will target certain accounts based on a range of criteria include users who violated twitter rules or how often certain accounts are being blocked by other users the changes of race concerns they throughout the social media community particularly from conservatives sides laugh out loud twitter is going to show the burning accounts who even follow all talk to people who violate their terms of service what a brilliant plan so now twitter is planning to censor any tweets reported for abuse really no check to see if the tweet was actually abusive whatever that means they're a traitor in jack i never complain about how you run your business but your new hiding treats passy has me concerned about censorship i understand your goal is to stop bullying but i found a block feature works incredibly well for that. bill new is
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a social media privacy campaign and a strategist at u.k. cloud and police say joins me by the light now built. these new algorithms it was great to think they could be trusted computers or don't always get it right certainly in the past bots have been fought against the real people have ended up being banned by twitter so how successful do you think this is going to be. i think the efficiency of the algorithms are parts of the concerns that people are they've been trying the algorithms for some time and it's very difficult to differentiate between people such as myself who campaign around privacy and freedom of speech and are therefore passionate about worthy issues and people who are equally passionate about some sort of less worthy topics maybe hate or whatever and the algorithms at this moment in time haven't actually been that effective differentiating between the different types of passion they can get the
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tone but that's about as far as it goes the other side of the colon obviously is the way in which you put in g. process behind a lot of this do we know just how transparent this is going to be in terms of what are the rules and when people have transgress because there will be fears that there will be some suspense of pression of people because of perhaps political views. this is all what i'm talking about in terms of due process at this moment in time the way that the shadow bounds work is that this is put in place as a result of an algorithm that is identified for some reason or whatever you are not informed that you've been shot about and you're not told why you've been shadowed banned you have no right of redress there is no appeals process unless we can have a little bit more due process here you are actually stifling free speech now are not defending people who are going to be bigoted or going to be our support any thought of hate crimes or whatever but what we need to do is to ensure that if
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social media are going to be serious parts of our freedom of speech arena in the dialogue that we have as a community that we have jus process to protect freedom of speech in that we have redress we have transparency we put in place sensible measures i mean the reason privacy. exposure around facebook and coverage analytical means that social media sites are already under pressure for potential regulation and if twitter don't get their algorithms right and if they don't put in place some sort of process they may find themselves facing some sort of regulation in this form. from your experience what is the biggest danger because at the moment on social media as i understand that there's a lot of hatred out there people speak in a way they probably wouldn't do certainly face to face with members of the members of the public the other side of it though if you start censoring everything that people say where do the biggest dangers lie. there's been
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a level of effectiveness in terms of what the algorithms of picked up so far so i don't think we want to be. unbalanced here what i think we need to do is to encourage them to make those algorithms more effective because we do want to stamp out the sort of hate speech and a lot of that the unpleasantness and the trolling that can occur but there are measures in place around complaint that can lead in that direction anyway and the algorithms a purely an automated assistance around that if we're going to use these algorithms though we need to refine them to improve their accuracy and we need to ensure that we have these do process measures to allow people who've possibly mistakenly been included in the net here and in some of the recent job and there have been some very senior bloggers some very senior influencers on social media who've been caught up in shadow bounds myself included the intervals and we have said nothing
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untoward and therefore our concern is that without transparency without the process and the rights of redress then i think there is going to be a certain amount of disparate disquiet and this may need to some ball of regulation some point and just to pick up on that just very briefly if you could if you can bill isn't that the danger now you said the need to be transparency it isn't that a danger though so much power in hands of one company that this power could be used to basically control social conversation if it's touching upon some issues that they don't want to and those conversations can quickly be banned removed in some form or another. the issue here is at this moment in time they are judge jury and executioner if we can have some sort of due process if they can have a little bit more transparency at least inform people when they are being impacted by some sort of measures at least tell them why the measures have been taken
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against them and have some sort of appeals process or rights of redress then i think that will go a long way towards actually addressing many of the concerns that people have and of course they can work on the algorithms to improve them at the same time but without all of that there are real concerns around freedom of speech here and i'm not defending a lot of the trolling and a lot of the bigotry that does exist in social media we do want to stamp them out but we have to be more effective and i think some of the inefficiencies in the measures and those of the lack of transparency and due process are a real concern here bill appreciate your time on your views very interesting bill me my guest social media privacy campaigner and also clan strategist u.k. clowe thanks bill. it is on damascus will send its delegates to the u.n. led constitutional committee tasked with drafting the country's main law the move was announced by the syrian president following a meeting with that in a putin searching. it turns is that following the meeting insult she joins me live
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on the line from negative and see do we know then the the key details have been discussed by the latest. hi there neal well first of all nobody knew about this before an evening announcement by vladimir putin's spokesman so in the last six months the leaders of russia and syria met three times twice here and tsotsi and once in syria and in all cases nobody doubts that the while the who was happening in advance now this time they were talking about fighting terrorism and also for their political steps to end the syrian civil war most notably vladimir putin said that soon he is expecting syria to be completely free of all foreign armed forces now that is quite a statement and it will be worth for us journalists to ask the russian president
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what exactly he meant by that whenever we get a chance now here is another highlight as you mentioned the syrian president bashar assad said that he will send a delegation to the u.n. to become a part of the so-called constitutional committee and geneva it was at the syrian national dialogue congress here in saatchi that the delegates a few months ago first came up with the idea to create this new u.n. mechanism the constitutional committee was meant to get everyone on board the syrian government and as many elements of the syrian opposition as possible but previously damascus refused to take part obviously the goal is to reform the syrian constitution well it seems on thursday here and saw she a lot of our putin convinced bosh are assad to change his mind. full. presidential
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meeting in sochi. thanks. less than a month to go until football's biggest tournament starts here in russia another world cup recently occurred it was one that raised awareness about children sleeping rough around the world over two hundred homeless young people representing twenty four nations came to moscow for the street child world cup. was that. those kids who are here they find themselves. alone and this is. how the other world leaves and opportunities they can get.
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these on ordinary kids these are kids a little bit these are kids without first significant so just to get his birth certificate they have to be somebody for the very first on they've never travelled out of the country people represent in their countries a world cup so when i was a world cup gets a bit on the streets to change the way the streets of the sea change the future we've been welcomed with open arms. at the most vulnerable children the world cup i know that will host a brilliant people woke up because they go big they don't. they were already well the world. thanks they with back at the top of their. seventy's submissions. seven thousand pilings.
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to judges. and eight hundred sixty nonstop days of work. a russian w.b. . and a russian mob stuff. show you how and why the crimean bridge was built. witnessed the construction of a unique transport. that will help out of crimea. faster most of those you know won't go for more snow yet it abuts. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race in his own spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very
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critical of dying time to sit down and talk. it was in the nineteen fifties that our secretary of state john foster dulles proclaimed our policy is global. we started as a continental empire by clearing out the native peoples and other foreign forces then we became an overseas empire by taking islands in various parts
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of the world and then after the second world war we began a global empire narrow we are playing on the whole billiard. the united states has always had a variety of tools to use. in its attacks on other countries. economic sanctions are are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries that you're talking about and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that
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country particularly in our own press and in the press of that leader's own country. americans love to think there were intervening in other countries to overthrow evil people and if that's true you have to make the person look evil. in nineteen fifty one other bands came to power in guatemala to being a looked at but the people in washington the u.s. president received the usual courtesies of a visit. years ago i wrote a book about how the united states overthrew the government of guatemala in nineteen fifty four. the case of the water is a great example of american call for action during the period of the one nine
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hundred fifty s. when covert action was at a peak. the country lost its legitimate government and hundreds of people lost their lives. those who knew syria pull your descendants who says she will do was. put in the lead and found that i don't them on the look in their own yeah beyond of you. know the memory of them. but i mean for one look to me you saw none of them.
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at this time a giant american company the united fruit company owned a huge amount. and much of that when they were not using was just being held taken while many guatemalans are starving because they didn't have the land to grow food. i.e. not down we remember gabby and. down in the bong and in order that i. no mess no one month and then it's not wait. and get done those little of the requests. i don't know what to get. yeah
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then i come as you know but going to get the end of. that and now in atlanta. and it's going up and. so president arbenz on the guatemalan government decreed a land reform program this land reform program would have forced the united fruit company to sell its own used land so it could be divided up and given to poor families the united fruit company was very unhappy with this they went to the united states government the u.s. government and concluded that these socialist orientation of guatemala was dangerous to the united states. gave.
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them and thrown his ball. up to my pally apart become in. her purse you can you can we were going to put your foot over your i won't go to you because we're not. going to come in from katrina because my going to her mother a lot. later civil war broke out something like two hundred thousand people were killed in that conflict over more than thirty years. may need to be able. to go. and. you know who's the lad if them be near.
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so the first one is. going to. the government that we don't like shows bad faith by bothering an american company . then we convince ourselves that that company is our geo political enemy. and we sell the intervention. as a humanitarian intervention we only do it to help them we don't do anything for ourselves in fact we sacrifice ourselves. for the good of others.
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american involvement in the overthrow of the government of libya the government of war khadafi was the number example then call it a number of impulses in the american interventionist spirit. as matt. was in saudi when i knew not that could be had then walked and if it had that much time i don't really. have. and now he attained that just a few to fuck up. a sea assia. to mess it
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all off. maduna to them because he will convene a set of wifi now. and then walk on the diamond and the house at the hummus and then he. would move me assets to move back and be in the time of the fall both had their good but that no one with a way in well many of them as you should be. we thought of him as a bad leader one we couldn't control now he looked like he might be about to carry
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out all human rights atrocity so we decided it was time to participate in an operation to overthrow gadhafi and in that operation of course he was killed. so we succeeded in the short term goal get rid of gadhafi deposed that government but then what happened we didn't have a plan for what was going to come next we thought that maybe by magic some new peaceful regime would urge everybody would cooperate and things together. this. is a very. it
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