headlining right now the misuse of private data by scandal hit cambridge analytic is said to be discussed in the european parliament in a few hours time for more revelation show that it's now defunct parent company was involved in a secret counterinsurgency operation in yemen we'll have the details. israeli prime minister heads to europe to persuade leaders to abandon the hard fought iran nuclear deal. to rescue the agreement after the u.s. walked away. and the french authorities scramble to tackle the threat of radicalization in prison r.t. travels to europe's largest jail where god say it's over crowded in the securities and out of court.

global news twenty four seven. welcome to the us i was rundown of the biggest stories from around the world first off cambridge analytic of the company at the center of a scandal for using private data for political ends is to be discussed in the european parliament in the coming hours but even as that happens yet another scandal surfaced investigative journalist max blumenthal has published documents he says were leaked from cambridge analytic his parent company they allegedly revealed that it had been collecting data for private military contractors in yemen was done in court and explains. 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 in terms 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 s.c.l. 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 a clear instance bastid it contained 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 to 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. of the u.k. government's alleged involvement in the taney

a project is based on its failed operatives who are required to register with the british foreign office for travel advice on operations so we got in touch with the foreign office for a response on all this but in their reply all they did was attach a link explaining what the travel advice service does meanwhile the saudi led coalition is closing in on the yemeni port city of data and humanitarian agencies of fear that the move or only worsen the crisis across the country data is considered to be yemen's lifeline as about ninety percent of all food and medicine arrives in the country through that port the saudi coalition says it's only targeting healthy rebels he considers iranian proxies but humanitarian groups warn that the coalition's operations mostly impact on 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. concerns of the direct impact on civilians and also. the

functioning of. this could have massive implications on an occupation which is already. significant we. usual to assistance is our money means crisis. and by extension given to some other means crisis there is the possibility for the parties to the conflict under international backers. to engage in talks that we view the humanitarian situation. israel's prime minister has arrived in berlin on the first leg of a trip to europe in which he'll push for amendments to the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal over the next three days benjamin netanyahu will meet the leaders of britain france and germany but he might find it a hard sell as the three european signatories all appear committed to salvaging the agreement following america's with drawl. only fear to meet three key leaders

franklin merkel emanuel mark cronin treason may no reiterating the new laws and truth israel will not lesser on obtain nuclear. or government regrets the decision of the us administration to withdraw from the deal that diminishes confidence in the international order what do we want to be fossils that wouldn't be blinded to what americans tell them we are it's a stick so much in keeping these agreements and we want to have economic relations with iran we've been acting already i think at the end you know never to make sure that you know if you have the mentees pursuit. trump has lost the bastard no one followed his decision and now we have to make good on the feeling of obligation. america abandoned the hard won deal with iran in may that agreement signed by seven countries curb terror on its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting up some sanctions but despite the face opposition now coming from the u.s.

and israel political scientist magic box has told us he believes the european signatures will remain committed to the pact. yeah who is. playing a show. in the european partners with the european partners to abandon the deal but i doubt that he can be a success in this endeavor his european council for. meaningly. germany france the u.k. have expressed their. political position that they are not abandoning it i believe that the national interest of those three countries that they want to secure. relations with iran and they are not sacrificing for this leak of the us. an iraqi

court a sentence of french woman to life in prison for joining the islamic state terror group escaping the death penalty molina was captured last year in mosul and sentenced to seven months in prison for entering the country illegally of the end of that sentence she's due to be deported home to france but prosecutors demanded a retrial saying that she violated the country's antiterrorism or by following her husband to iraq they stated he went to join i saw now out of almost two thousand people from france that went to fight with the terror groups believe that many were radicalized while serving time in french prisons but the authorities now raising the alarm over the problem five hundred convicted terrorists are currently imprisoned in france wanted for the twelve hundred other prisoners have reportedly been radicalized forty are due for release in the next two years the country's leading counterterrorism prosecutor says that poses a major threat to the public. who are these good measures a major risk of seeing people who are not a troll repentant at the end of the sentence leave prison and yet be even more

radical over their time behind bars with many now questioning the initiative shala dubai and skipping to visit europe's biggest jail. not only is there concern over the threats 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 every day in france prison guards are attacked we have been off the next one thousand one hundred supervisors over the next four years but for now we don't see anything happening we're tired of this you are 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 going on oncet and now prisons like this could soon be and locking their doors to let those radicalized inmates back into society zones say la pook on this prison is the largest in europe there are four thousand three hundred inmates it's overcrowded and we don't have enough staff and 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 a count to terrorist. watch list a list that already went 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. the french authorities say they have to do more to properly monitor former 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 r.t. paris. right new in this hour president putin just signed into law a counter measures that will allow russia to retaliate against any sanctions put on moscow let's get some details on this now from correspondent in the trying to

either exactly what position or allow president putin to do. hello well by signing the bill into law a lot of our putin has given freedom of maneuver for hitting back at other countries which are hostile to moscow so if someone chooses to punish russia or russian and dividual russian companies possibly with sanctions something that we've seen many times in recent years think the u.s. first of all all the russian president now has to do is say we are responding then name the countries or and to tease and then the counter sanctions will immediately enter into force among the counter measures that are now available for the russian government are severing of ties with states and companies and also bands of exports and imports however there is an exception if there are good stat fall under

the ban however they are not produced in russia and they are vital for this country and this case the measures will not be put in place. ok well the framework for the weather gets used or not we'll wait and see and through the across the area for trying to thanks very much for that. freshly formed euro skeptic government is sending out a tough message to illegal immigrants the new interior minister. who is described by many as italy's answer to donald trump has said his country will not become a refugee camp in the new comers need to make up a plant. he was speaking there in these silly imports of khatami away he promised to reduce the number of illegal immigrants coming to the country he also as you saw pledged to get to work on deportations a policy that's proving divisive across italy. i think this is right. these illegal migrant royer ones what can they do here they are people without

a house they have nothing so. so bernie should not be in the italian government today each country is composed of diverse ethnic groups and diverse people who come completely close the immigrant trying to take a i think it's ok to take a break he has to set rules migrants can come and 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 on the support i'm sure that so many will not be able to stop migration he will not have the parliament support it. i say of course as being one of the main points of entry to europe for migrants and refugees coming from north africa and the middle east over six hundred thousand of arrived in the country since twenty fourteen and one recent poll suggests that fifty eight percent of italians are now afraid of immigration the director of italian institute for international political studies has been discussing the influx of migrants with oksana boyko and aussies want a part. ninety percent of the migrants need only comes from libya.

was it important trading partner is a source of the italy which is important as you know you can buy all the bits on the web needs pipe and the pipe. to it to italy and it's a source of problems for migration. so of course we are affected and we played in your right as relevant role after the. duffy. is donald trump pardoning his buddies will tell you after the break. it's.

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now there's all the control in the u.s. president's hands about forty minutes ago donald trump tweeted that he has the power to pardon himself after his attorney earlier caused a stir by saying the u.s. president is effectively immune from being indicted statement came as trump comes under pressure from an investigation into his links to russia rudy giuliani explained in an interview that trump would need to be impeached before facing legal action but also stress that it will be highly unlikely that trump would have ever used the presidential pardon on him self. do you in the present attorneys believe the president has the power to pardon himself. he's not but he probably does. he has no intention of pardoning self but he probably doesn't take care of those comments come after the u.s. president pardoned a filmmaker who he thought was unfairly prosecuted by the previous administration the move cause discontent across the american media and some of the politicians there as well caleb maupin 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 os you have 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 decision 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 are for. the president of the united states granted and by these presidents to 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 hopes 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 and 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 we all the while in office that's their core problem until they get over that they're going to be writing a lot of fake that. it's ten days and counting until football's biggest event kicks off in russia we've been catching up with the form of brazil defender in time will come when a cow through he's been giving us some insight into how his nation might perform at this summer's two and. expectations are really high not only concern in the world cup in russia but also concerning the world cup in general especially regarding the brazilian seem pressure it is high you are fighting for

a world cup with the brazilian team there are more than two hundred twenty million brazil leaders that still hundreds and twenty million football coaches two hundred and twenty million football fans so that is additional pressure on players to have a great world cup when we come to a world cup we come to when no one plays at the world cup just to say that it's late we come to ween of course sometimes it doesn't happen the way you wanted to but you can be sure that the it won't be and the lack of commitment and brazil is going to have a great world cup before we sign off time to tell you the team is fired up and ready to go for a special coverage throughout russian's first ever fee for walcott. several

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here in st petersburg taking part in the conference. on u.s. alliance just faltering with threats of american sanctions cutting off u.s. aid and mutual diplomatic measures all down to pakistan's complicated policy towards militant extremist groups washing to look at the distance itself will pakistan fall into the arms of its neighbor china. changing ties of 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. this it's a great pleasure to have you as our guest one more time good to meet you in person . so let's 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 and 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 morning kind of economy i'm not a politician i'm a 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.