temple mount now here which is the organization from which the man who gave the present came from has expressed its own concerns about the incident it says that the man who presented the picture actually acted on his own behalf but the problem is that the american ambassador already has a record of controversy even before this event he is a supporter of israeli settlements in palestinian territory and in the past he's also called on the u.s. state department to stop calling the west bank israeli occupied territory and this incident they are after the time it follows the inauguration of the new u.s. embassy in jerusalem from its original base in tel aviv and as you well know that sparked a barrage of both international and regional criticism. google made good flow from many quarters but if there's one thing about the company that people admired it was their corporate motto don't be evil but times are changing and the internet behemoths new dealings seem to have rendered that particular principle obsolete

dollie quarter explains. don't be evil a rule you'd think most people might try to live by right the folks at google certainly thought so for the first eighteen years. don't be evil google is generally apply these words to how we serve our users but don't be evil is much more than that until that is they quietly removed probably the most famous phrase in their corporate philosophy and now it's a bit more vague striving for the highest standards of ethical business conduct and we all know how ethical business can be here's one example of google's interpretation it signed a pentagon contract in march to help the department of defense create artificial intelligence tools for drones to attack and identify ground targets all without human operators being involved me project maven technology is helping human intelligence analysts fine objects on video feeds from drones you know it's kind of

like a facebook photo when you upload a photo and it is facebook able to identify which of your friends are in that photo project made in the same thing google staff and ai academics were shocked with thousands signing a petition protesting the firm's militarisation. we believe that google should not be in the business of war therefore we ask that project may even be cancelled and that google enforced a clear policy sitting that neither google nor is contractors were fear technology google's not the only tech to get a pentagon paycheck i.b.m. and the computer graphics firm nvidia are just two which have worked on military projects still google balsa see nothing out of the ordinary with project maven. we have long worked with government agencies to provide technology solutions the specific project is a pilot with the department of defense the typology flags images for human review

and is for non-offensive uses only google claims that. ai won't be used to kill but it doesn't workers who resigned over the contract aren't convinced the ethical question now is whether it's the weapon or the brains behind it which does the killing don't be evil i always thought that it really meant don't be evil yet because of course as google becomes a very powerful corporation on one of the most are form the world and plays are such an important role in the development of new technology inevitably they're going to be drawn into some very big and evil things like war like autonomous weapons and there's a lot of pressure on the high technology sector in the us right now to contribute to the military. and i think that many of the google employees don't agree with that and it's interesting too to see that story will be playing out. well we have to comment on the changes and we'll update you with on when we get

a response. to the news continues in ninety seconds here with. a plate from many clubs over the gays so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super manager killian erroneous and spending cuts you're getting twenty million on one player. it's an experience like nothing else i want to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy was great so one more chance for. thinks it's going to take. we've all gotten used to it the media hate trump and the president returns the

favor in kind how is this mutually charged hate fest changed media and journalism does the corporate liberal media report the news anymore and is a big profession in the service of partisanship. quarter of an hour into the program welcomed by more than two thousand far right extremists in germany are in legal possession of at least one firearm according to the government's own figures the green party leaders are sweeping the problem under the carpet reporting from berlin here's artie's peter all over. here in germany almost two thousand people identified as far right extremists have a permit to possess a firearm that's according to the government's own statistics twelve hundred of

that number described themselves as reich citizens and since november of twenty sixteen around four hundred fifty of them have had their firearms licenses taken off them by the state but he was right citizens and dangerous right citizen is a catch all term for a loosely affiliated bunch who claim that the federal republic of germany is illegitimate and say that the pre-war constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed hitler to take power well today's reich citizen groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to either neo nazi groups or far right ideology. the historical revisionism forms a ninety logical link that connects various right wing extremist currents and right wing extremists among right citizens use those connections to cause confusion to

provoke authorities and to create a social platform for right wing ideology it's estimated that there's around eighteen thousand of these right citizens in germany and some are allegedly preparing for a day when they'll rise up and take their country back but these aren't just hollow empty threats eighteen months ago a policeman in bavaria was killed during a shootout between officers and a member of one of the sorites citizens' groups the number of people is significantly significantly increased violence. has increased in number if the numbers go on to increase these fever really use in. for opposing and resisting the reduced. then indeed it's a challenge for the state opposition politicians have accused the government of trying to sweep the extent of germany's problem with far right violence under the

rug first the federal government explains the right wing terrorist groups can form spontaneously and have a strong digital network but then many of their actions are not counted as right wing tera fences the impression is that the federal government consciously accepts blind spots in the recent past berlin hasn't pulled away you from publishing intelligence findings that showed as many as seven hundred radical islamists could be in the country and a capable of preparing a terrorist attack but it does seem that they're less forthcoming we're not threat potentially posed from elsewhere we now are facing the end of being intellectual dominance and culture into legally gemini and under system bred a lot of grown writing populism of course writing radicals right wing extremists. protected the german state district to their all the power and strength it has germany has very strict gun control laws thankfully gun deaths are rare occurrence

here but perhaps one way to keep it that way would be to not allow people who the government considers a threat to the public to have access to firearms peter all over are. just a final word on this from the german government which sais that although the threat posed by right wing extremists is reportedly increasing the overall threat level from the group remains relatively low. the head of u.s. military central command general joseph volatile sees america will not shift its focus in syria to stabilizing the region and monitoring the dangerous pockets that remain that is the spuyten president trump saying only this month but the u.s. would pull its troops out of syria very soon. while the u.s. decides on whether or not to stay in the region a survey of our of youngsters in the middle east suggests the majority view the u.s. as an adverse three it also concludes that russia has cemented its position as the

top our about ally russia goes the looks at how american strategy has failed to win over hearts and minds you can see why trump wanted a new middle east rather gee the old one wasn't working allies unhappy people aren't waving american flags for costs failed remember for instance when they proclaim that syria would be russia's and a new of kind of star russia will continue to. send troops home. in body bags these are hard lessons that the soviet union had to learn in afghanistan you have to dig back into ancient history to see how this is going to play out for the russians turned out it wasn't it was killing jihad ists and terrorists isis al-qaeda and all flavors there of pointing case take this

poll every year it does six arab youths who their biggest allies are in two thousand and fifteen america was voted second friendliest country by arab youth now it's eleventh russia is fourth despite or perhaps because of its intervention in syria but that's youth what about the older folks turkey is an ally obviously a strong partner certainly with respect and a friend a nato ally and a friend of the united states in a very turbulent part of the world. of america i told you many times you're either with us or all of these terrorist organizations this disaster the united states is barely on speaking terms with a nato ally turkey they're withholding weapons there are syrian kurds the white b.g. who a turkey sworn enemies this friendship is dying and turkey thinks it can

unite and need the muslim world especially after trump stunt with moving his embassy to jerusalem that robert almost everyone the wrong way condemned the u.s. decision on jerusalem because of its great bias against the historical and permanent rights of the palestinian people see the united states the solution to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel is a dangerous one it will threaten security and stability and frustrates efforts to resume the peace process with strong. bleeding allies moscow is making inroads with ankara now turkey russia and iran gather regularly on syria and trump isn't being invited but they at least friends still buy american guns right we signed historic agreements with the kingdom this landmark agreement includes the announcement of

a one hundred ten billion dollars saudi funded defense purchase and we will be sure to help our saudi friends to get a good deal from our great american defense company that was trump boasting before saudi arabia saudi arabia america's chief ally in the middle east declared that it is buying russian s. four hundred missiles which turkey is also doing that's a new low for us policy and things aren't looking up. you can bet there are no one filled russian basser ships in countries that matter to moscow as doris day almost unbelievably vacant american posts in egypt jordan libya could tar saudi arabia syria turkey and of course iran where we have no embassy america's policy has been simple divide red versus blue shia versus sunni

friends versus enemies problem is the world isn't black and white there are grays greens browns and purples which washington needs to recognize to talking here about states or a region that has been heavily dependent on the united states in pretty much everything defense economy cars technology everything and now people are thinking you know this is not reliable anymore this is not an ally anymore this is becoming more of an adverse or definitely a shift or the huge shift in rhetorical between the obama administration and the trumpet ministration has played a role to agitate people we need to understand the policy there hasn't been much change. that's how our stories look at this news hour we're going underground though in just a moment this time tracking that in focus stay with our to international.

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us espionage in china mike pompei oh now secretary of state we took chinese foreign minister wendy to avert a multi-trillion dollar global trade war coming up in the show against all the odds in a bar roger propaganda in britain nicolo my dura wins again in venezuela a nation with the world's largest known reserves of oil and gas one now and was it fair we speak to an election monitor joseph hour along the border of the u.k. center for investigative journalism and an associates of wiki leaks and the head of this week's un report on fracking we speak to a former colonies of the u.k. pm david cameron wants fracking could mean earthquakes in england and the headline is a porch a debate about the new cia chief and who's going to nuclear over ethical investments all this of all coming up today is going underground but first britain's foreign secretary boris johnson after seemingly acquiescing the u.k. minority government leader to raise a maze of bricks it customs union begins a tour today on his itinerary of peru argentina and chile that starts with the last

of those alleged washington proxies chile it's infamous leader pinochet was backed by johnson's political hero margaret thatcher when the former dictator was charged with genocide by spanish examining magistrate judge baltasar garzon on pinochet does not enjoy being taken from the crimes that judge saw missing him for in spain those are going to take a genocide and extra territorial murder i don't see him work. in the army and give it out. on the west so sunny what will you do. when. you see not him in this lobby and not the main town. thembi in which. he knew nobody and the coward. getting. it on the door not good equally little came out after the cia backed killing of the democratically elected socialist leader of chile salvador allende forty thousand were killed or tortured

under pinochet boris johnson's hero margaret thatcher believed pinochet though should be rewarded for his friendship with britain when after being arrested in the u.k. he was released by tony blair's government is reborn from this guy wants to be held prisoner for sixteen months. in the meantime there's a problem with the. red tape. joe de chile is in the grip of more neoliberal change that opponents believe will further impoverish the country's poor as for argentina where thatcher can arguably take credit for destabilising a us proxy dictator after winning the mel venus for clint's war the bad old days could be returning in the past few days as president mccree has sought loans from the i.m.f. . but. it is. great for the military to mess around and as for peru's its president hasn't even been

elected martin his kyra has been appointed president after his predecessor resigned over corruption it was vickery who welcomed us vice president mike pence to the capital lima in the past few weeks now let me be clear. the responsibility for the venezuelan people suffering can be laid at the feet of one man nicolas maduro yes the us vice president at the invitation of a leader who is not elected in peru calling up president nicolas maduro of venezuela who just won a landslide on sunday no surprises then that britain's foreign secretary or strengthen did not congratulate president maduro and that his five day latin american tour is exclusively to those names. pivoting back to washington responsible for decades of covert destabilization got of the days when the poor of london used to benefit from cheap venezuelan oil thanks to one of labour's most popular politicians ken livingston allegedly forced out of his party this week well joining me now from caracas is a member of the board of the u.k.

center for investigative journalism joseph erroll who was an independent monitor at sunday's venezuelan elections joseph thanks for coming back on going underground was the election fair i don't see how anybody who was present could think it was anything out i know there's plenty going on in the news about how unfair it is that whenever any questions are posed as to why then the answers are certainly not technical that come back here really political answer what exactly is the process of voting in a ball they're very in venezuelan election it's an extremely robust system you have to go into the polling station you show your id card which they push into it the number of i.d. card information and that brings up their own version of the id card so then they verify that you are the person on the id. they then get you to put your thumb for it on the machine. that is a double verification from then you go to an electronic actually where you put in

your vote circuits you option a cd you click on it you want it prints out about those records your vote and it was a printout a ballot with an x. in the box if you voted for which you then put into the ballot box and after that you go and sign if you don't or vote so there's so many moving parts that at the end of the day they look at the numbers on the machine and they compare that with the numbers in the ballot box the physical ballots and also the opposition and and they sign that of all parts used present so they have witnesses from all the running parties who have to agree on. that countless number and on top of that the the powers that you have the right audit fifty four percent of all the addicts on a first machines i mean that's not just a sample that's a huge huge sample as close to being a population i went to many heard in stations i even try to fudge the system myself

where i got somebody who just voted to go back in the queue and put their id number in and it popped up on the screen saying this person has already voted then i got somebody else who is rude having voted to put their id number in and then i asked if instead of them putting them from someone i could put my area on and i did and it said this doesn't correspond to the same person so that been people who've been signing over there are these machines that can print out different puppets it doesn't matter unless it actually corresponds it's not going to work maybe those ones who to vote. on says the elections are neither free nor fair so if your state calls them a sham which will change nothing you are just one of the election observers with the other election observers that you made today broadly agree with your view of these elections. i mean i haven't come across anybody who disagreed with this i mean there were over two hundred independent observers they were there was a delegation from the african union election observer observatory there was set out

which is an international latin america. expert observer of the actions and i mean it was a resoundingly. concurrence that it was sadly sad technically robust. there was no sight of any intimidation of people being trafficked in. or people being paid to vote for i mean that it was it was a significant abstinence that's true but on that note i mean that's the opposition and said previously that they were going to abstain that they still had a candidate around. why would a government trying. it's an election that's not going to be contested that in itself doesn't make sense and you know there's another point that's worth noting is that we went to a recent prior to the elections with the other with the main campaign managers of

all candidates and. only five carter was the main opposition candidate actually said that they agreed with the electoral system they thought it was robust they had witnesses in all the polling stations that also so they couldn't say or it was a fraud or it and he said that they were they recognized the results until such time as the votes actually came in and it didn't recognise that exactly file calls people are certainly not saying that they accept it now i'm not sure the new york is going on the western borders with venezuela but colombian president santos says he's not going to recognize the victory of majorities as colombians were given then as way the idea is to vote well you said it i mean it's not just haven't you of course argentina brazil chile even canada the whole of human group have come out with a statement saying how they're not going to recognize that and in that opening

paragraph of that statement because they were not free or fat now i don't understand how they can argue that and this i don't care is going to as i've said i don't get technical reasons as to why it wasn't for your parent action you know. everybody in this country has the right to vote. before chavez cattlemen the station from an individual forty seven kilometers away and they have to travel through the jungle and we swim across a river malon you need your parking station is a thousand meters away i mean from any individual in the entire country so everybody has the right to vote and their guns are electoral commission which is its own branch of government something else that happens to it was it was three branches of government before which was judicial legislature the executive and groups of the citizens of that and an electoral one so that he had this independent commission that it gave people their rights back but does boris johnson have

a point in one sense you mentioned gallagher justin trudeau didn't allow thousands of venezuelans to vote in the consulates so we should thousand in a travesty in itself that is as far as i understand it it's a complete contravention of the vienna convention on the magic relations it is sovereign territory you can't tell somebody that can't do something about itself and this is it. canada said that they were going to stop those people from voting how they did it i'm not all whether they actually put people in front of the doors or not however that only six thousand x. hats vendors are going to act at that minute in canada. with an abstention greater forty eight percent to fifty truck out remember which one is the true that they're so similar you know only three thousand of those will probably go to vote anyway so it makes very little difference through to a country that's going to have that has a population of twenty million and again it's political these are all countries

that are more upset with the fact that you have. a very leftist distributed government because while. the country is the other countries as you mention canada the result has gone from left to right argentina has gone from left to right center to that wall that limit group are very very anti then not socialist governments and it's a saying reason that people always condemn chavez in my view has finally and briefly when you talk to ordinary venezuelans they wanted to vote for the ones that use were devoted to the manure despite the fact the united states seems to be threatening oil sanctions if doro won well i mean the voters i suppose there would not only be people who wish to vote from a juror. i mean obviously you're not really allowed to ask you to vote for it you can say it would you like to tell me you're going to vote for and you know that it

was a mixture so it wasn't all the matter but the thing is. they're very proud nation and they're for for decades latin america as being run by it the cia for. different description and when they have a country and a president and the previous president triggers when we actually want to take back our sovereignty be a sovereign nation it adds to that fight and so yes that's right actions sanctions have been put in place other side actions of being threatened to go no doubt be more sanctions let me. does. joseph thank you after the break. as the u.k. government announces plans to accelerate fracking in britain we'll ask for the number ten advisor professor peter stiles about whether to expect quakes in england

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