for us to a new piece of work a place of worship to replace an ancient one which was destroyed the u.s. embassies asked for an apology saying the envoy was unaware that he was being given a doctored picture the region still reeling from deadly protests against the relocation of the embassy to jerusalem is a middle east correspondent paula slee. the photograph immediately sparked fierce criticism from the muslim world saberi cut who is the secretary general of the palestine liberation organization the p.l.o. there's a friedman expressed to quote rude and hypocritical behavior you then have a tb who is an arab israeli law may care and comes from the israeli arab dominated political alliance called the joint let's and he has responded to the photographs by saying that this madman wants to bring peace a good thing you didn't put the embassy there at the same time we're hearing that the american ambassador has apologized friedman was not the word thrust in front of him when the. he was deeply disappointed that anyone would take advantage of his

visit to create controversy the u.s. policy is absolutely clear we support the status quo on the. 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 comes at a very unfortunate 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 this might provoke further tensions it builds the rhetoric against the u.s.

policies it would pressure governments to go in the face of and against the interests of the united states and at the same time there would be protests which are already being organized for quite some time right now in the past in territories over the two months we lost under thirteen people thirteen thousand injuries. already so this would only add fuel to the fire. meantime the united states ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley as we know receiving into some sharp criticism she went to the university of houston to make a speech and got a following welcome. i'm here today following a very busy few weeks in american foreign policy. you get to decide not on the genocide of a native people you are trying to believe. that you. was.

was. in two thousand far right extremists in germany or in legal possession of at least one firearm according to the government's own figures the green party says lead is a sweeping the problem under the carpet though reporting from berlin here's our europe correspondent peter all over. in germany almost two thousand people identified as 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 right 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 the same system that allowed him to take power well today's right citizen groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to why the neo nazi groups of far right ideology. the historical revisionism forms an ideological link that connects paris 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 these are right citizens' groups the number of these people is significantly significantly increased acts of violence in the public officials policemen has increased in number if the numbers go on to increase if these fever really used in to prepare themselves for a toasting in resisting public will so 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 terra fences the impression is that the federal government consciously except 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 when that threat is potentially posed from elsewhere we now are facing the end of less being intellectual dominance and culture into legally gemini and under system bred a lot of grown writing properly isn't of course writing rediculus right wing extremists. still protect it the german state district do their bit with all the power and strength it is germany has very strict gun control laws thankfully gun deaths are a 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 of r.t. believe. footnote to this from

a german government saying that although the threat posed by right wing extremists is reportedly increasing the overall threat level from such groups remains relatively low. the number of advocacy groups in the us are urging amazon to stop selling its facial recognition software to law enforcement across the country they say the tools become an inexpensive form of mass surveillance which could be used not only to target criminals but also to spy on the general public we demand that amazon stop barring a government surveillance infrastructure that poses a grave threat to customers and communities across the country as advertised recognition is a powerful surveillance system readily available to violate rights and target communities of color so as we just heard amazon recognition is a powerful software tool which uses artificial intelligence to identify faces it's able to detect in real time objects and people in a wide variety of settings it can also track explicit images and content the

software is able to produce a positive match even when a person's face is not fully visible they're scary here's how ours than explains it all. a muslim recognition video extracts mr data from this video by detecting objects and activities. with amazon recognition video customers can now track posts even when faces are visible tracked persons that are fully or partially leave the scene and. in response. technology has many useful applications the tech giant also defended the sale of the two other men just like any service users will be made to comply with the law. who signed the letter to imus and told me she believes the potential for abuse though still remains. i don't think it's developed for the public good i don't think amazon really acts with the public good in mind it's not their mission right it's to make money for their for themselves and their shareholders so that's that's why they

developed it it's useful for them it's a useful technology for them and they can make money selling it to law enforcement and other agents for any new technology or any new way that law enforcement increases. i guess their their presence in our lives it's always to get the bad guys but too often they tend to use these tools against the general public and you know i mean if we want to stop crime we can lock everybody up but we don't do that because there's a cost benefit analysis and. the cost of this technology to our basic freedoms and privacy and having an open society are really very real. football just over three weeks time now the greatest footballing show on earth got so under way in the biggest country on earth russia nations have been busy naming their players for the fee for world cup while our own former player peter schmeichel continues to explore the host cities ready to welcome them.

if you. ask. the meaning of the russian enclaves reached in between the rainy cold and the baltic sea a minister based in. salina in munich. it was thirty five thousand screaming fans for the four games that are played none of this of course the much anticipated match between. what else is going on around this place but i'm peter schmeichel not here to find out. i'm a bunch of meeting one of the passages for convening grand she's

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most of. our. money more adventures the people smuggle come over the coming weeks now let's focus on italian politics next before i leave you it's been two months coming but italy is now formed the government and named its next prime minister his name just there picante is but a proof for rome's top job where they tally him president after emerging as a compromise candidate put forward by the euro skeptic five star movement on the far right league party in point with an end of political deadlock has lasted since the election results came in beginning a march concert had been seen as rather unlikely choice by some given the fact he's a relative newcomer to politics a little known law professor has those served on the boards of several high profile italian companies he's also been brother five star movement justice program and

although there's little indication as to what policies he will favor as prime minister conti's been in the past certainly vocal about rooting out corruption let's go live to italy lorenzo pretty ass goes there it lectured university belong to a school of political science a good even a good warning actually no from us anyway this and will qantas a point would be a good thing for italy will it be the new blood that italy needs i live there sometimes myself italian politics is always colorful and often unpredictable what direction is seeking to take that beautiful country. well i i think you will promise to be agreement to the coalition agreement put together by the league in a five star in the past weeks which has been quite an interesting interesting four mark in terms of of the of a political agreement because they basically found a home ground of different policies including the census war hero including

taxation and the pension reforms the problem however is how much prime minister conte he wins the confidence vote in the parliament which leads to do will be a leader only somebody who puts in action a coalition agreement put together by others just briefly do you think is going to win the confidence vote what's your gut feeling on. where we should be should be quite the parties in the concern by the government because the league and the sun have a wide majority in the chamber and a slight but i will anyway a majority in the senate as well so what's he going to bring to the party than first of all you say he's against the euro that's not going to go down well in brussels of course it clear key european country. well the question agreement is not explicitly and high euro our first version of the draft of the coalition was very i think more euro skeptic than the final version the final version simply

calls for. increasing the deficit to fund the fundamental policy measures proposed by the by the new coalition basically pension reform basic income and the reform of the of taxation but there is no there is no disagreement on the idea of year of this very important to say just even looking over there are so many problems to sort out in its place such high unemployment amongst young people and a huge public debt as well as he wants to borrow more and take italy more in today it sounds great i spose in theory but you know the money's got to come from somewhere or is planned really going to work. well that's a major major issue facing the new coalition the estimated cost of the proposals in the in the pollution agreement was as high as one hundred billion euros per year which would be non i mean it is couldn't be possible in fiscal terms so i think they will have to adapt to

a milder version of their policy proposals because it would be impossible for a country with such a high debt to hoard this amount of money quick thirty seconds is that controversial scandal in the wake of receiving the rights or wrongs of that maybe if you've been in new york in the past how strong his mandate given that he wasn't actually directly elected by the people are going to matter that that's a problem and he's quite a weak prime minister in terms of the political capital because when he hasn't been elected he hasn't been proposed to voters before the election so he's you know way a figure of a compromise between a five star and lead well respected professor lawyer but without any political mandate from voters so this will be probably the greatest weakness the politics is always colorful italy isn't it always changing at their end so well actually not friends a look at it lorenzo probably ask a lecture at the school of political science university polonia thanks for your time of being with us much appreciate it thank you and thank you to is exactly

midnight thirty commit to midnight thirty one this some of the top stories at this early morning for the twenty fourth of may here a moscow it's kevin zero in saying thanks for watching more for me in half an hour programs or after the break for. that's. right divers financial survival guide i don't buy i prize on a few. of the five. i said last time i buy it from the future cracker watch guys are.

hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle we've all gotten used to it the media hate trump and the president returns the favor in kind how his this mutually charged hate fest changed media and journalism does the corporate liberal media report the news anymore and is journalism today a fake profession in the service of partisanship. across talking media wars i'm joined by my guest rob how the new york isa political pundit and journalist contributing to the huffington post also in new york we have lionel he is a legal analyst and news decoder at lionel media dot com and in los angeles very early in the morning we have ron paul cohn he is a comedian a frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his

own streaming show get your news on with ron i love how that rhymes are a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect and i'm thinking jump in anytime you want i always appreciated let me go to you first in new york just very broadly speaking how is the media changed in the age of trump because in the age of trump trump doesn't change it seems go ahead lionel in new york ok first of all let's talk about news media versus the media here's how it's changed we often use the term mainstream media to define people like a.b.c. n.b.c. and. fake news c.n.n. that's not mainstream anymore what's mainstream is this what's mainstream right now is podcast again you tube and other platforms that is dead that is a star that burned out millions of years ago yet the light still hits us so when we say mainstream the first thing that happened was. the recalibration of the term mainstream because what old is doing what's new is now that's a very good point but the problem is that the legacy media still have

a huge impact on the population i would say because people believe in the conspiracies that a lot of the former and i'm going to go with your terminology former mainstream media peddle run reflect upon that in no way yeah you know i i agree with lionel said i think the term mainstream media is something we have to try to shy away from i like to simply say corporate media all the time because definitional and that's what it is it is a corporate media owned by very high for profit entities but as far as did the media. in the trump era i would say the corporate media that we're referring to has not changed in the trump era i think it's the same formula that they've been going by for a long time now they like hyper partisanship one way or the other they like sensationalism they like to have a little fun soundbites and take bits to to inflate for as long as they can and

trump gives them plenty of those you know michele wolf at the white house correspondents' dinner nailed it she said you guys love trump just didn't made it because he's giving them what they want and that's kind of all they care about and as far as news and information in our country not only is it a huge disservice but as lionel pointed out it is a sinking titanic when we use that logic there robin i just want a quick diversion here than the entire foreign policy elite in the united states much loved lot of near putin keeps the good work ok then flowers and sam pain at the end of the year you know but rob if we agree with lionel said in that in los angeles but there is one thing that is changing is that their ratings or plummeting in this is maybe the only thing that about this old legacy media that's really true and on top of it they want their. revenge ok you have like facebook teaming up with the atlantic council they want to claw it back and it's going to get nasty people are being to monetize people being shunned and throttled ok so the old the old

media is up to the same habits of trying to control the media space go ahead rob in new york. well we have to realize that media is a is evolving i'll tell you one thing that hasn't changed my father was a newspaper man i grew up in and around the business i remember as a youngster that there was a conservative advertisement against the new york times with a picture of fidel castro they put on a bus that said i got my job through the new york times still makes me laugh out loud so things haven't changed that much but another thing that has changed a monster of late i worked on and off for time incorporated since nineteen eighty three and for one period for fifteen years straight there was a publishing behemoth a colossus that no longer even exists you know the name was literally pulled off the building and there was no time publication in the time in life building i don't

even know if think all the time unlike the link so the media is evolving in ways that i don't think we can even predict lidl may have a word for it which i'm going to need the thor's afterwards unless we get a translator but it's happening at a pace that that i may not see in my lifetime i don't want to make a prediction do i like words going you know can i stop it no is it just part of change unfortunately yes hopefully it's one day it will be for the better lionel jump in go ahead peter let me give an example this past week in new york or we just had the up on this is an annual event where everybody used to be it used to be the biggest thing there was this is what all the stars came into town and spoke to the advertisers and the affiliates and it was like number of the many academy awards it is now shrunk it is now minimized to nothing let me see what my day is every day we normally look at my wife and i look at our our kind of media e-mails and what you will see is you will see for example c.b.s.

which has a show at night and the biggest p.r. arm that will spread through social media the idea that last night you know. as this monumental event where coal bearer whoever trashed are attacked the president we live now in a click bait economy let me tell you what also happened recently rosanne rosanna completely changed things because bob iger who is very very smart realizes that he owes of a new sherry duty to his shareholders and what america wants believe it or not and this will kill the mainstream or lame stream or ted baxter media what they don't understand is that the american actual viewer is not somebody in the left wing right wing bubble or swamp it's somebody who recognizes the value of let's say a rose and another's so while they don't realize just like i'm telling you again they think that they live in the world of rachel maddow that c.n.n. that that people reflect their ideas it's not true it's the opposite ok but ron i

mean you do have a prevalence where you know we can always talk about the exception of fox when it comes to cable and they certainly make money off of their click bait but they're not practicing journalism anymore and i mean we can talk about the the the infrastructure the business model but the profession itself i mean i watch the cable news because i have to because from my job but i don't see journalism being practiced at all i mean and on top of it people expressing opinions without really much knowledge i mean it's kind of a lot of dumb people saying dumb things that are very cliche and some of these issues are really very important go ahead. well you know what peter this is a this is an odd double edged sword for me because the corporate media in the united states does bother me however if they ever got significantly better i might be out of a job sure i get to exist i get to exist in that capacity that i do because they

they are failing so hard but i do see journalism practiced however the practices i see are often the. negative types of practices the employing propaganda techniques word associations and stuff like that recently on the show were for the jimmy door show c.n.n. smeared us and then used a very very typical propaganda technique and the smear they associated us with other with other types of outlets that were it was not a curate association at all but they did that it's an intentional thing when you do then it's a certain type of grouping and of course it's a wide wide net so is there some are there some diamonds in the rough sure you know you've got to look for it it's not on page one quote unquote you got to dig for it but it is there but as a whole they're not talking about the.