these big stories right now the misuse of private data by scandal head cambridge analytical is said to be discussed in the european parliament in a couple of hours time revelation show that it's now defunct parent company was involved in a secret counterinsurgency operation in yemen. the israeli prime minister heads to europe to persuade leaders to abandon the hard fought iran nuclear deal. to rescue the agreement after the us walked away. and the french authorities scramble to tackle the threat of radicalization in prisons travels to europe's largest jail guards overcrowded and that security is inadequate.

global news from moscow this is r.t. international i want to welcome you this monday at seven and five in the afternoon here in moscow off first story cambridge analytics the company at the center of a scandal for using private data for political ends is going to be discussed in the european parliament in the coming hours but even as that happens yet another scandal surfaced investigative journalist max blumenthal is published documents that he says were leaked from cambridge analytic as parent company they allegedly revealed that it had been collecting private data for military contractors in yemen has done a quarter now 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 online 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 initials they spoke uses on identifying the groups that support or are conducive to violent jihadist recruitment project titanium was essentially a psychological profile operation against the hottest its architects wanted to find ways to divert people away from islamised ideology field research is used to identify a clear instance pass to do something 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 kemet 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 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. the u.k.

government's alleged involvement in the titanium project is based on its failed operatives who were required to register with the british foreign office for travel advice on operations or asked 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 money port city of data and humanitarian agencies fear the move will only worsen the crisis across the country a day it is considered to be yemen's lifeline as about ninety percent of all food and medicine arrives in the country through that port and saudi coalition says it's only targeting hoofy rebels who it considers iranian proxies but humanitarian organizations warn 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 we're extremely concerned that the direct impact on civilians and also.

the functioning of. this could start massive implications on an occupation which is already. a significant we. to assistance is a 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 engage in talks that. this humanitarian situation. israel's prime minister's arrived in berlin on the first leg of a trip to europe in which he'll push for amendments on the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal over the next three days benjamin netanyahu will meet with the leaders of britain france and germany but he might find it a hard sell because those three european signatories all appear committed to salvaging the agreement following america's withdrawal. book of only fear to meet

three key leaders franklin merkel emanuel mark cronin treason may no reiterating the new world in truth israel will not lesser on obtain nuclear. or government regrets the decision of the us administration to withdrawal from a deal that diminishes confidence in the international order one who wants to be fossils that would have a line between americans. it's a stick so much in keeping these agreements number one time economic relations with iran have been acting already i think if you know the level to make sure that the nuclear agreement is preserved yeah french 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 the agreement signed by seven world powers could terrell's nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of some sanctions but despite the fierce opposition now coming from the u.s.

and israel political scientist at magic told us he believes the european signatures will remain committed to the pact. meeting you who is. playing a show. in the european partners with the european partners to abandon the deal but i doubt that he can be successful in this endeavor his european counterparts meanly. germany friends in the u.k. have expressed. clear political position that they are not abandoning it i believe that the national interests of those three countries that they want to secure. their relations with iran and they are not sacrificing it for this week of the u.s. . and iraqi court has sentenced

a french woman to life in prison for joining the islamic state terror group escaping the death penalty molina or dia was captured last year in mosul and sentenced to seven months in prison for entering the country illegally and the end of that sentence she is due to be deported home to france but prosecutors demanded a retrial saying that she visited violated the country's antiterrorism law by following her husband to iraq they say he went there to join i saw now out of the almost two thousand people from france that went to fight with the terror group it's believed many were radicalized or serving time in french prisons the authorities now raising the alarm over the problem five hundred convicted terrorists are currently imprisoned in france right now or is thought that around twelve hundred other prisoners have reportedly been radicalized forty due for release over 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 brisk of seeing people who not a troll repentant at the end of the sentence leave prison and yet be even more

radical over their time behind bars. with money now questioning the initiative shala do benson has been to visit europe 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 move every day in from 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 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 zero 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 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 terror. watch list and list it already runs into the tens of thousands two thousand if you can sit it dangerous tragically even those on the next often

slip through the fingers of security says. 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 that it's about time they did show it to even ski r.t. parents. president putin has signed into law countermeasures that will allow russia to retaliate against any sanctions put on moscow let's go live to correspondent

patrik he's got more on this for us i get exactly what does this law allow president putin to do. good afternoon call in signing this bill into law a lot of our prudent has basically given himself freedom of maneuver for hitting back at countries that are hostile to moscow so if someone chooses to punish russia with sanctions or punish russian companies possibly and a vigil is now that is something that we've seen many times in previous years think the u.s. first of all all that the russian president house to do at this point is say we are responding name the countries or the companies that will be affected and then the counter sanctions will and turn into force immediately among the counter measures that are now. available for the russian government are severing ties and also

import and export vans however target industry sectors haven't been specified in the document but while the legislation was drafted we heard about sectors such as nuclear power aviation and space pharmaceuticals and also tobacco and alcohol industries though then these things were dropped from the final texts it is a sensitive issue and this is a complicated and a long process to really figure out where exactly the bans will be put in place however in that document the red is an important part about exceptions and i can tell you that if there is a specific type of goods that falls under the ban however it's not produced in russia in this case the sanctions will not be put in place. ok so the template whether it gets used on how i guess will be back to tell us if you get any more details than half an hour they really are trying to thanks for that. italy's

freshly formed euro skeptic government is sending out a tough message to illegal immigrants the new interior minister. who is described by many of these answer to donald trump has said his country will not become a refugee camp and the newcomers need to make other plans. if you know treatment is really a treaty i'm not. sure you're. speaking there in the society import of khatami he promised to reduce the number of illegal immigrants arriving in the country he also as you saw pledged to get to work on forte sions a policy that's proving divisive across italy. i think the soviet writes i hope he stops these illegal migrant arrivals what can they do here they are people without a house they have nothing. should not be in the italian government today each country is composed of diverse ethnic groups and diverse people who come completely

close immigrant traffic pay up 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 on the support i'm sure that so many will not be able to stop migration he will not have the parliament support. italy's been one of the main points of entry to europe for migrants and refugees coming from north africa and the middle east more than six hundred thousand have 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 the italian institute for international political studies has been discussing the issue at length on artie's worlds apart. ninety percent of the migrants live in sweden comes from libya libya was it important trading partner is a source of gas which is important as you know you can buy all the lights on whether the pipe and the pipe. to it to italy and it's

a source of problems for migration. so all of course we are affected and we played in this you're right as relevant role after the. duffy. you know without a the tragic chain of events which condemned london tower block residence to their deaths we've got an update on the ground for blaze inquiry after the break. so it seems wrong but old rules just don't call. to say proud this day comes to educate and in. equals betrayal.

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come back an expert investigating last year's grand full tower fire in london has said that safety measures were an adequate and the b authorities advice to stay put . the damning assessment comes as part of a public inquiry into the tragedy and left at least some two people dead last june let's go to a corresponding the day richard has been across today's hearing details dare us up to date now we've had some how to win testimony have in way as well as eyeopening admissions. yeah i mean it's been really interesting to watch the enquiry today the purpose of it is obviously to examine the night of the tragedy and to see the circumstances of surrounding that and whether it could have been prevented now we've heard from a number of experts a number of reports that we've seen there are five expert riff was in fact and they have looked at the emergency services obviously the issue of cladding and lotus come out so if we look at the emergency services for example it said that it should have happened within forty six minutes of getting the first call and that obviously

didn't happen it said it was a total failure of the state put policy which we've heard loads about in the press and also they've mentioned this this isn't so they looked really in detail at the tower itself and there was refurbishment that went on actually so i've got a bit here they had a new heating system to put in and one of the materials that was used that which they mentioned was not normally put used for construction was something called made out of poly ether lean that was three millimeters thick of polythene bonded between a half a millimeter thick pieces of aluminum skin now the properties of that is that it's highly combustible thermoplastic polymer it melts and drips if it's exposed to heat and it has a high calorie value and actually turned into fuel when it's an introduced a fire so you can see what happened there. they obviously looked at these points and there was some really interesting. points made by mr millet at the beginning he

said it was the largest loss of life on fire since one thousand eighty eight the worst loss of domestic life since world war two we all know what happened on that night seventy two people were killed let's have a quick recap. next

the u.s. president has plenty of power at his disposal but as donald trump tweeted just over an hour ago now he says that also has the power to pardon himself trump's come under pressure from an investigation into his alleged russian links and his attorney earlier caused a stir saying the u.s. president is effectively immune from being indicted rudy giuliani explained the trump would need to be impeached before facing legal action but also stress the trump would likely never have to use a presidential pardon for himself. in the present attorneys believe the president has the power to pardon himself. he's not but he probably does the mayor i guess no intention of pardoning himself but he probably doesn't say again 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 the country's politicians and i'm open pics of 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 on 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. opponents 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 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 last 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 involved 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 real road into the obama administration he was aggressively prosecuted for an offense that is generally not

prosecuted to the level of this one was and his life was virtually ruined root in this country we have a crisis because the mainstream media the corporate owned media refuses to accept the idea that donald trump is a legitimate president of united states and 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 so i took from half an hour check us out on you tube and facebook can get used to twenty four seventh's the next news from international and thirty four minutes. global war hawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that still needs to do socks credit

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after time three we're going underground on the day nearly six million members of the u.k. trade union congress celebrate one hundred fifty years of standing up for working people against power coming up on the show consulted editor for the most visited english language website in the world the daily mail's andrew pierce on why he thinks the russian ambassador to the u.k. is playing the stage the murder of john the stockade but janko to his advantage and what's behind the timing of a cia leak of the young yang whoa denuclearize is negotiations continue in the shadow of the u.k. defense committee report suggesting north korea could hit london by september next year plus how does pseudo science support the spread of fake news and you're a scientist and you know if you had to break the bank to the certainty that cuba is

responsible the sonic warfare all of them all coming up at today's going underground but first while italy and britain there seem to threaten the existence of the most powerful economic block on earth the e.u. another threat is arguably in evidence today in the southern hemisphere brics foreign ministers gather in pretoria south africa ahead of july's leaders' summit so what unites the brics countries especially given that the b. in brics stands for brazil now run by a defacto cia asset well let's take the war that you came minority leader to raise i'm a voted for in government libya he is president ten mare of brazil exposed by wiki leaks this against in libya in the am in mali or in the central african republic wars have caused intolerable suffering intolerable suffering sure but why does temper appear to be so reticent his russian counterpart in twenty eleven asking some arguably more pertinent questions about the war in libya supported by to resume the coalition.