this hour the misuse of private data by scandal hit cambridge analytic or is set to be discussed in the european parliament today at the same time two more revelations show that its parent company may be involved in the secret counterinsurgency operation in yemen i'll tell you all about it coming up. israel's prime minister heads to europe to persuade leaders to abandon the hard fought iran nuclear deal germany france and britain have pledged to rescue the agreement after it was rejected by america. and the french authorities raised the alarm over radicalization in prisons r.t. travels to the largest prison in europe where guards say it's overcrowded and lacks proper security measures.

and the good afternoon just turned midday or mosque as one of the fourth of june my name's kevin i bring you the latest marty h.q. then for the next half hour and stay with me. now to listen care of the company at the center of that huge scandal for using private data for political ends is to be discussed in the european parliament later monday but even as that happens yet another scandal surfaced investigative journalist max blumenthal has no published documents he says were leaked from the cambridge analytic his parent company they allegedly revealed that it's been collecting data for private military contractors in yemen as donald quarter explains next. remember the cambridge analytical scandal millions of people's personal information being mined for financial gain and influence cambridge and a little it's actually a data analytics company dedicated to one thing figuring out how to manipulate you at all costs this shadowy consulting firm right surreptitiously gained access to personal data mined from nearly eighty seven million facebook users weaponized

personal data you have to look at cambridge analytics and some of the loss of trust cambridge analytic scandal this was a huge breach of trust well according to newly leaked documents from cambridge analytical parent company as c.e.o. it wasn't just for meddling in political campaigns in two thousand and nine s.c.l. carried out a surveillance operation in yemen called project titanium it involved a network of western trained operatives tasked with infiltrating local populations and identifying potential terror threats the nice thing focuses on identifying the groups that support or are conducive to violent jihadist recruitment project titanium was essentially a psychological profile operation against the hottest it's architects wanted to find ways to divert people away from islamised ideology field research is used to identify it clear incidents bastardy campaign target groups those who took part

were deceived and led to believe that they were part of more innocent surveys but it was for a noble cause especially at the height of military operations against al qaida the s.c.l. group was acting on behalf of our camera a us based military company they get billions of dollars from the defense department for intel operations around the globe looks like they were doing government dirty work and not just for washington and i know that many other governments work with them as well it's not just the united states government i believe the brits work with them in other countries and that's just the tip of the iceberg. when you look under the surface of these campaigns the private sector is creating a gray area risk free and where international law does not apply i actually was

able to obtain in recent weeks through a company insider or through a company insider documents pertaining to a twenty two thousand and nine counterinsurgency and surveillance operation that s.c.l. group the parent company of cambridge analytical carried out into conflict zones in yemen maariv and hide your mood province which is where al qaeda in the arabian peninsula are based and where obama's drone assassination program at the time was taking place and you know what these documents showed and i think you know they provide us with an unprecedented look at how s.c.l. group as a private intelligence operation apparently functioning under the watch of the british government in this case how it operates around the world and how it hones these kind of counterinsurgency tactics in the third world in conflict zones and then kind of brings them back into the west for use in elections. i still see

groups being shut down and they had a cambridge analytic which is also closer to testifying before the british parliament later this week there's been no comment on these new allegations if we do hear more we'll let you know meantime staying with yemen the saudi led coalition there is closing in on the port city of how data and that's important aid agencies fear it's going to worsen the humanitarian crisis in the whole country or data is yemen's third largest city and its port is a vital lifeline for yemen about ninety percent of all food and medicine arrives in the country through the port you can see it's important the saudi coalition says it only targets hooty rebels but humanitarian organizations warn that the military operation mostly impacts the lives of civilians some eight point four million people are severely food insecure and at risk of starvation if conditions do not improve a further ten million people will fall into this category by the end of the year we're extremely concerned about the direct impact on civilians and also what is

the functioning of the. harbor and this could have massive implications on an occupation which is already. significant we. need to live. up to systems is our manmade crisis. and by extension given to some other means crisis there is the possibility for the parties to the conflict under international barker's to stop the fighting and. to engage in talks that we view the humanitarian situation. israeli premise is expected in germany later today but even that yahoo is on a three day trip to europe to drum up support for amendments to the iran nuclear deal you may find it hard going though european signatories to the agreement determined to see it rescued after the u.s. withdrew. only fear to meet three key leaders angela merkel emanuel mark

cronin treason me and i'll reiterate an unyielding truth israel will not lesser on obtain nuclear. government regrets the decision of the us administration to withdraw from the deal that diminishes confidence in the international order to want to be fossils that would have paid blindly to what americans tell them we are to stick so much in keeping these agreements and we want time economic relations with iran we've been doing already i think you can you know never to make sure that the nuclear the mentees pursuit yeah trump has lost the past no one followed his decision and now we have to make good on the feeling of obligation. america abandoned that hard won deal with iran in may the agreement curb iran's nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions it was signed off by france germany and britain trusts head of the political sciences wing at health university in cairo believes that those three won't break under u.s.

is ready pressure anytime soon either. playing a show. in the european partners with european partners to abandon the deal but. i mean doubt that he can be successful in this endeavor his european counterparts meaningly. dern many friends in the u.k. have expressed their. political position that they are not abandoning it i believe that the national interests of those three countries that they want to secure strategic relations with iran and they are not strictly fighting for this seek of the us. for. the iraqi court has sentenced

a french woman to life in prison for joining the islamic state terror group escaping the death penalty that must be said there was captured last year in mosul and sentence to seven months in prison for entering the country illegally after the end of the sentence then she is due to be deported home to france but prosecutors demanded a retrial they said she violated the country's antiterrorism or by following a husband to iraq they furthermore say he went there to join the terror group but that case aside molina boy it is home country france is it brings up the whole problem of radicalization in prisons and the authorities really alarmed what they can do when they get back out again five hundred terrorists known present in france around twelve hundred prisoners are reportedly radicalized forty of them crucially and two for release in the next two years and that's got the alarm bells ring in the country's leading counterterrorism prosecutor warns that move poses a major threat to the public. these commercials a major brisk of seeing people who are not at all repentant at the end of this

sentence leave prison and yet be even more radical after their time behind bars. with many questioning the initiative show dubin ski visits europe's biggest jail. not only is there concern over the threats that these individuals may pose to the outside world but also while they're incarcerated this is a flaw. it's europe's largest prison and amongst the thousands of inmates being held here some unknown joe hardest see. ya done move every day in from prison guards are attacked we have been off the next one thousand one hundred supervisors of the next four years but for now we don't see anything happening we're tired of this but you were the first t.v.

channel i'm telling this to but yesterday we had a suicide and since january we've had ten other cases exhaustion among staff and concerns for their own welfare spilled over into protests. still the calls for help a going on and sit and now prisons like this could soon be and locking their doors to let those radicalized inmates back into society is all set up recon this prison is the largest in europe there are four thousand three hundred inmates it's overcrowded and we don't have enough staff we have more than one hundred twenty radicalized inmates here so you can imagine i difficult it is for a prison supervised to handle this the forty alleged radicalized inmates who will soon get out of jail will likely find themselves on account to terrorism watch list a list that already runs into the tens of thousands four thousand of whom are

considered dangerous tragically even those on the watch list often slip through the fingers of security services. french authorities say they have to do more to properly monitor for me inmates and with france having suffered so much through terror attacks in recent years many would argue it's about time they did charlotte even ski arty paris. in italy that the newly formed euro skeptic government sent a tough message for illegal immigrants coming into the country the minister of

interior salvini also described by many as italy's answer to trump says simply it's time to pack your bags. well you know people is really really not. going to be. speaking in the city of port attorney a promise to juice the number of newcomers they also pledged to get to work on the deportation of illegal migrants a policy that's led to big division in italy. you know what i think the soviets rights i hope he stops these illegal migrant arrival ones what can they do here they are people without a house they have nothing so it's a very should not be in the italian government today each country is composed of diverse ethnic groups and diverse people you can completely close immigrant traffic eva but i think it's ok to take a break he has to set rules migrants can come in discriminately they will create many problems in italy there are many problems already for example there is

a lot of poverty and there is not enough jobs numbers but i am sure that so many will not be able to stop migration he will not have the parliament support. well italy has been the foremost destination for north african migrants and refugees over six hundred thousand of arrived since twenty forty recent polls suggest that fifty eight percent of a talionis though are afraid of immigration director of the talent institute for international political studies part of my agree spoke to r.t. is worlds apart but the issue. ninety percent of the migrants evidence need only comes from media. and was a bit important trading partner is a source of gossip for the thirty which is important as in all you can buy all the it's on the web our gossip needs pipe and the pipe out of the media too to eat only and it's a social problem for migration. so of course who are affected and we played in this as relevant role off to the outing those that did get duffy and could discuss for

worse on why took them to get and we could discuss four minutes on why ethan he had to solo. i'm not saying i haven't said that that get duffy's walls and had to be what he will he was a dictator as you know we have been used to leave along with dictators in many other countries and. this is out international law for most go with me kevin now and they sell a lot more to come up you can stay with me among stories ahead presidential pardons and sentences commuted donald trump's accused of letting political allies off the hook but after the break.

donald trump's attorney and former new york mayor rudolph. giuliani gets name right as caused a stir by claiming that the u.s. president cannot be indicted he said that even if he shot his ex f.b.i. chief james komi congress needs to impeach trump before taking legal action against him but for the more the same interview he said that the president is unlikely to ever actually exercise his executive privilege do you in the present attorneys believe the president has the power to pardon himself. he's not but he probably does i'm a i guess no intention of pardoning himself but he probably doesn't say get those comments come after the u.s. president pardoned a filmmaker who he thought was unfairly prosecuted by the previous administration the root cause discontent in the american media and among the country's politicians

kerobokan picks up the story. donald trump is once again drawing outrage from the democrats this time for pardoning right wing political commentator dinesh d'souza now d'souza pled guilty in two thousand and fourteen to making illegal campaign contributions trump is being blasted now from some quarters because they allege that essentially he's letting a political ally off the hook president from seemingly passing out pardons to heroes of the far right almost as eagerly as oprah once gifted pontiacs to suburban moms there are questions about his judgment and intent the president reminding people my daddy can pardon you on this power and i'm going to. but if you look over the history of presidential pardons and sentence commutations they've always kind of been handed out this way back in april donald trump gave a full pardon to scooter libby a former member of the bush administration scooter libby had been involved in outing the identity of

a cia agent and then obstructing justice in order to cover it up george w. bush had already communities sentenced back in two thousand and seven the scooter libby decision was a sort of fair and balanced says don't forget about the biggest case of tax evasion in all of us history marc rich was convicted of defrauding the u.s. government of roughly forty eight million dollars rich was going to face three hundred years in prison until bill clinton stepped in to give him a second chance now it also happens that marc rich was a big contributor and supporter of bill clinton's presidential campaigns marc rich was on the f.b.i.'s ten most wanted list bill clinton on his last day in office pardons him a lot of people were shocked and surprised including his political allies even after marc rich died money from his estate continued flowing into hillary clinton's foundation and then there was an investigation that determined there was no foul play between marc rich and the clintons richard nixon stepped down after it was

revealed that he had spied on his political. ponens and then obstructed justice in an attempt to cover it up now gerald ford who were placed in the oval office decided to let bygones be bygones he said it was an act of mercy all right your own are for. the president of the united states granted and by these presidents do grant a fool free and absolute pardon under richard nixon the first presidential pardon in u.s. history was handed down by george washington the leaders of a rebellion that had taken place at the time the man dubbed the father of america hope that this act of forgiveness would help bring a new country together but roll on two hundred years and it seems that presidential pardons and sentence commutations are little less about honor and healing and a little more about you scratch my back i'll scratch yours over centuries now there's been a process of volved where you have something called the office of the pardon

attorney people meticulously review the cases and decide which one should make it to the president's desk dinesh d'souza he was railroaded under the obama administration he was aggressively prosecuted for an offense that is generally not prosecuted to the level this one was and his life was virtually ruined root in this country we have a crisis because the mainstream media the corporate media refuses to accept the idea that donald trump is a legitimate president united states entitle to wield the legitimate powers that every united states president has wield the while in office that's their core problem until they get over that they're going to be writing a lot of fake news. countries across europe to tighten their borders against illegal newcomers but it's not just economic migrants that have been seeking green in post use.

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called to the scene there of course more casualties are feared. evolve can differ way go it's called mini volcano or fire living up to its name erupting for the second time this year said to be the biggest eruption since one thousand nine hundred seventy four. so i think looking so far this monday the twenty four minutes past midday now turn out are up for the latest when you're out and about for now for me kevin i want things watching this.

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sit. in the. room. welcome to sochi and go and sophie shevardnadze pakistanis cater the fragile balance of power in south asia and the middle east but with upcoming elections will the country's staying turn a stable and be able to help their region deal with it's a show on my guest today. former prime minister sharon disease and he's here in st

petersburg taking part in the conference. in decades loral pakistan u.s. alliance is faltering with threats of american sanctions cutting off u.s. aid and mutual diplomatic measures all down so pakistan's complicated policy towards militant extremist groups with washing to look at the distance of just don't fall into the arms of its neighbor china how will changing ties affect the never ending war against the taliban and what will be a realignment of pakistan mean for greater stability for the whole of southeast asia. it's a great pleasure. to have you as our guest one more time good to meet you in person and really everybody so a lot to talk about many things going on in your country elections coming up. soon the country will have the new prime minister i mean you been finance minister you've been prime minister has anyone so your council. maybe asked you for advice.

well you know when. a government functions the privilege of talking to anybody asking people what they think but the core decision making is made by the chief executive and the cabinet and that continues when i was in office that's what we did too but if you bump into somebody or you know somebody you can get another view. however in pakistan one thing is very significant the press is totally free and they go to all segments of society to get views and those use next morning and front of you so it is not a closed shop at all so you could be president you could be prime minister you know you get feedback all the time when i was in government i used to get through the press very open. criticism critiques and suggestions and what have you. i think what is more important is knowing what you want to do knowing what you believe and knowing what your principles are and your major priorities and then

that i spent a lot of time publicly sharing them over the media events. physical move meetings with groups of people every day the schedule had ten to fifteen meetings every day so people asked when do you do the thinking that's a good question it's a constant process absolutely but did you ever think of coming back to the pakistani politics actually i mean you do great stuff monitoring kind of economy i'm not a politician technocrat and that's why. to some extent. my working style was very different eighteen hours a day seven days a week and. then but since i was elected i had a constituency for the election almost got killed in that process as you know and so on and so forth so it was a unique set up which was tailor made for that time so i want to

take some of your views and. maybe suggestions so what's going to happen after the election i spoke to him down hon not long ago he stroke me as someone very charismatic but also very smart and someone who knows what he's talking about what do you think of his chances of becoming prime minister would he be the right person for your country i think to me the right person would be whoever wins the vote at the ballot box if you believe in democracy and if you believe in the. responsibility an ability of the people to express their view the leader they will select has to be the chief executive of the country he has elected a good team of people as you know one person cannot run all the affairs of the state and the other party is to we have three main parties and then there are a lot of other important bodies who have.