that could be a credible threat mr peterson's ban it comes as twitter brings together a special research team to combat prejudice and promote what it defines as collective health and openness on its platform but the plan seems to be causing controversy with the assembled team already being accused of a strong anti trump bias. like trump when you can trump donald. something tells me you will certainly start seeing more republicans in congress are testing the waters and pushing magazines trump. trump's twenty sixteen digital team in cambridge on this week to help the russians figure out how to tell gates he's campaigned on facebook.

the team will work on algorithms that root out incivility and intolerance on twitter and it assesses the extent to which people engage with different viewpoints but austin peterson claims the platform despite what it says is actually making a concerted effort to censor certain ideas and talking points we don't have free speech in the united states in order to be able to discuss the whether we have free speech in united states so that we can discuss very controversial things i don't mind if a social media network has a bias i assume a bias but what i prefer is transparency about that bias twitter suppresses conservative and libertarian voices from being able to get their message out because they have a bias and it's deeply disturbing and a threat to american democracy. well the u.s. has announced sanctions against two turkish officials over the detention of an american pastor that and other stories after a short break you are watching our international.

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welcome back this is our t. international now turkey's foreign ministry has lambasted u.s. plans to sanction two turkish government ministers has called on washington to reverse its decision the punitive measures came in response to the detention of an american pastor in turkey and bronson is accused of being involved in the attempted coup there two years ago more details in washington here is our american. well washington sanctions target two turkish officials number one the justice minister abdul hamid gul and the interior minister silliman solo the white house explained the decision saying that they did not find any evidence implicating pastor brunson

calling him a victim treated unfairly by the turkish government but what do the sanctions entail exactly well sarah huckabee sanders explains any property or interest in property of those ministers within u.s. jurisdiction is blocked and u.s. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them first some background on bronson he's an american pastor who was detained in twenty sixteen under suspicions of having links to the movement who orchestrated be cool against heir to one he was held for twenty one months in prison until he was placed under house arrest amid u.s. pressure now the two sides didn't mince their words the u.s. threatened turkey with sanctions and turkey responded saying that they wouldn't bow down to any threats and the president. and the turkish government i have a message on behalf of the president of the united states of america release pastor andrew branson now or be prepared to face the consequences it is not suitable

to use such language against a country like turkey which is still cooperating with nato at the highest level we don't give any credit to such threatening language they should know our character u.s. turkish relations haven't been so strong lately over the syria conflict turkey's a weapons deals or missile defense deal with russia as well as iranian sanctions so we'll just have to see if turkey does indeed retaliate. maria butanol made headlines last month after being arrested in the u.s. on charges of acting as a russian agent now there are reports the u.s. senate has agreed to release a transcript of britain as a testimony before the body in response to requests from the justice department and her attorney or to america spoke to boots and his lawyer about the case. well i think if you read the indictment of the case is alleged to be an agent over

russia who failed to register with the attorney general and so essentially that means is they haven't charged with espionage and if you read the allegations against or know the allegations or anything spy like about it the sense of the government is conceding that even under their own theory if she had filed a piece of paper with the attorney general's office at the beginning of her trip to america everything she did was legal and so my point is this is more a registration type crime than a crime and yet the media and the government some extent are treating it like an espionage crime. well i mean i think that allegation was particularly damaging to maria because it makes it more like a spy novel and frankly easier for the public to digest and so editors and producers like those kind of allegations because it seems like this is more like the red sparrow and that was an allegation that was set forth in a proffer by the government meaning they did not produce evidence to back up that

allegation at the time we're still waiting to see that and we're not sure it exists or it exists in any meaningful form in the interim it's very hard to see your client kind of dragged through the mud like this which is why i've been trying to push back on that. south africa's ruling african national congress committed on tuesday to amending the constitution to allow the state to seize land without paying compensation currently more than two decades on from the end of apartheid or racial segregation white farmers still on the line lion's share of the country's privately held land and sea had been buying up some of it for redistribution however opinion among lawmakers has now shifted and the majority now support taking the land without offering compensation for that the constitution has to be changed that is the move president. now wants to push ahead with he says the amendment will help drive economic growth. and its

position that a comprehensive land reform program. that and neighborhoods access to lead and. economic growth by bringing you more and in south africa to fool you. and they were the productive participation of millions more south africans in the corner. the plan has been met with sharp criticism from white farmers who have called it catastrophic here is some of the backlash that has appeared online. and we are going to live happily ever after south africa doesn't have a line problem it has a political problem this is disgraceful what an appalling situation in south africa where are all those protesters de gea and see explained to you that you won't be own in their land but will be arraigned to need from them and won't be for free. i belive vans are all

a south african agricultural union leader told us confiscating land will scare off investors. so i do have the huge problem with poverty and unemployment and so as this is a pity that they make these choices because no one will invest in this economy and we need growth to actually address the realities of south africa so we have great concern about this approach we're already a lot of countries already contact us as an organization and say is that will be the case we are not willing to invest in your country anymore i can give you a lot of examples of people really stop investing in south africa and that's the starting point of economic growth until now it's a first that they make this promises to the bubbly because they needed for the election i think that he is if he's busy challenging the do much on the other try to save himself and that is what's going on now. an investigation is underway into the deaths of three russian journalists in the central african republic on tuesday

journalist organizations have called on the un to get involved in the investigation the three reporters were killed in an ambush by unidentified militia fighters and near the town of subdued people in moscow have been paying tribute to the slain men laying flowers at the memorial it was maria for motional brother spoke to about what we know so far. and what more do we know at this point well definitely a tragic incident and certainly a great loss for the journalistic community first of all what we know so far officially is that there are dead bodies were discovered by u.n. peacekeeping person now some twenty five kilometers north of the central city of seabird. on the road and abandoned car was also discovered at the same with multiple gunshots yes it looks like the crew was attacked by a large group of gunmen we do not know right now who they were and we also know that the driver of that car a local man according to some reports he was recommended to the team by u.n.

office in central african rick. so by this incident we know that he's currently called in with investigators we also hear that the crew didn't have press accreditation. officially they did have the right to work in central african republic as a journalist and we also hear from the russian embassy that they were not notified about their arrival and we hear from the russian officials that their buddies expected to return to their homeland to russia this saturday has there been any indication as to why they were killed they don't discuss who is behind the killing of three russian journalists but more interested in what their assignment on the ground was shortly after the news about the death came we started receiving unconfirmed reports were heard that from journalists friends and colleagues that they were filming a documentary about mercenaries in central african republic possibly. some would go

further calling a group name known as wagner although these were all come from the poor and the media news personalities. started using this information as if it was the matter of fact and it created kind of like hysteria but not about the killing the terrible incident that happened in central african republic but about the russia's involvement in the conflict there and send an illegal person out there and russia's foreign minister is a reaction to these claims by reading here all of this nonsense about an investigation into russian mercenaries in the central african republic there is nothing since ation about the presence of russia's military instructors in the country no one covers this based on the location of the bodies the russian journalists were not heading to an area where the instructors work this march russia officially and five military and one hundred seventy civilian instructors to

central african republic about. from being one of the poorest countries on earth definitely on the african continent it is there an unstable place is divided between different groups so it's like a very dangerous place and this was the reason behind the taishan of russian experts to the republic and i think this is what russian ministry is trying to say that this is not the news that's quite fair because the news is the killing of the three russian journalists and we we have to wait and see what the investigation finds out. by switching gears now police in los angeles california have released a video showing three officers killing a hostage taker armed with a knife as well as the hostage now just a warning you might find the following images a bit disturbing. truth.

of a man ignored repeated demands by police to draw for life instead he dropped a chair he was using as a shield grabbed the homeless woman and started to cut her throat at that point officers opened fire with shotguns loaded with backgrounds killing both people commenting on the incident the los angeles police chief said a review would determine if officers acted appropriately. the life of the hostage is is paramount in protecting that individual from the threat of the assailant. and in doing that the balancing act that the officer has is how to protect them by stopping the suspects actions. generally in regards to recruit training we talk

about a precise headshot in this instance will look to the on the off the officer's actions and determining and will make you terminations how it matches up to our training in regards to hostage. joining me live is corey peggy's who is a former new york city police officer thank you very much for being with us here on r t international. so the l.a. police chief said that eighteen rounds were fired in this incident he went on to say that police were trained to make precise head shots in order to save the hostage in such circumstances so. what went wrong here. well there's several things that went wrong and my estimation of this serious and c.n.n. one. you have to understand a concept to make split second decisions i've been

a police source with twenty one years rosalee executive level police and new york city police department and i have never in twenty one years been training to take hash in twenty one years going to the range as a regular patrol officer which i believe it was who was found on the end of visual . night at my had been out in l.a. but even given that benefit of doubt the officers acted in good faith because it was imminent danger to the woman the problem that i have with this situation and i'm not totally fault in the cops is that most train and. the senior officer only sane. control of the situation and designate a shooter if there's not a supervisor on the scene just as it made me shoot oh you have distance you have

three offices with weapons pointed it into a different angles and there was no for all the the only verbal command that we did here was drop the weapon drop the weapon i didn't hear any verbal back and forth between off the same way i have a clear on the fire i'm going to take this shot cover you guys cover me that's what somebody should have been designated to shoot because the dread had to be taken out but you can't take the dread out with three different people shooting we got a hostage right in front of two they could have also i didn't see a wider view angle to situation but even when they said drop the knife drop the knife even when he had that don't want it's not a big but from what i asked or and i've looked at the video numerous times and it's in the blood come out i've met as if he was getting ready to kill her. he was listening to orders but he didn't he did not slice i mexico he could have bought some time about covering him with the fire still give him

a verbal commands and colin foot back for the emergency emergency service to come to the scene and maybe they could have had a hostage negotiator come down it could isolate it and contain this individual until it could have got a negotiated that took him down and briefly unfortunately we're running out of time and this is a topic that we could spend hours and hours and hours discussing what are some of the outcomes of the investigation i mean are these officers facing possible repercussions. possibly depending on the training that they've given out there l.a. and i'm quite sure that training is not teach three officers to shoot. past you know someone as it might for somebody second it is no clear line of fire where you talk about taking a head shot you talk about a six inch window or less that's a tight tight shot most of says go to the range they can't shoot seventy five percent so this this shot you got it so you got to hit this is

a one and done this got to be a hundred percent you need a shot shoot to take that shot that's why it's an eight that is because you did not have a shot. and again it was a threat imminent already for the deaf and someone had to take the shot but the quality of shot by three offices that were being trained it's that i think it was just too much unfortunately we've run out of time corey peggy's who's a former new york city police officer invaluable to hear your stance on this thanks for being with us here in our two international. all right you're watching international back to.

join me every thursday on the alex simon still and obviously going to get half of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. on this edition of crossfire we consider one question is donald trump american policy in contradiction to the washington consensus idea of american exceptionalism the answer this question will likely define presidency and change the world. greetings and salutation. the u.s. economy is booming hawk watchers yes it is at least that's what we've been told these last few months over and over and over again headline after headline talking

head after talking had from the wall street journal to forbes to c n b c even the white house has been trumpeting the u.s. economy declaring on its web site quote jobs jobs jobs the american economy is booming but buried underneath all those bold headlines and talking head fawning something feels i don't know something is feels a little off because while the economy booms for some we are also seeing some very disturbing trends and things that we don't like to talk about at parties like the news that a homeless census in seattle washington recently uncovered the number of people residing in campers and other vehicles surged forty six percent over the past year in fact according to governing dot com americans living out of their cars isn't unique to just the city of seattle washington matty quinn reports that there's been a boom in vehicular homelessness especially out on our lovely left coast where

rents some skyrocketed in the number of homeless people who don't live in shelters is up twenty thousand from twenty seventeen but with more and more u.s. citizens being forced to live out of their cars due to increasing rent heavy debt low wages and an affordable cost of living one of they going to do when the national law center on homelessness and poverty is reporting that across the country the number of prohibitions against to be a residency has more than doubled during the last decade. it appears that the ghost of tom joad still haunts the american highways and cities as we start watching the hawks. but you get the. real thing with. the plot of. the day like you that i got. with. this.

i. welcome on the watching the horror i rolled into the downtown of the last. tab of the let me have i have to look at this is true for not only the united states but around the world as well so pay attention our international friends and family. what good is a booming economy have only a small small percentage of the population can actually enjoy it because that's what i think is happening here in the u.s. everyone says oh the economy is going great everyone can get a job but i don't see a lot of people really enjoying this economy the way i saw it back and like the i'd say the eighty's or the ninety's like what people are buying and having a great time yeah i would say that you can't have it's not a booming economy if only a small percentage of your population which is in our case mostly the one percent

or that top one point zero zero percent or whatever the ninety the rest of the ninety nine percenters are not. they're not doing as well and that to me is like you don't have a booming economy as you said there's tons of jobs. but there are people to fill them you know were there are so many issues at play here with child birth. immigration and a lot of other things that i think that it's it's absolutely to chris to ask the american people to think agree that there's a booming economy and to believe that while we still have all these what will who are clearly not getting anything out of their cars zooming out of their cars and then getting fines for living oh my god i'm going to ask you why you know. why is this why are people forced to bring living living like literally there's i can't go to a can apartment to get a house i'm going to talk to what little i have left and put my car and sleep you know down the sidewalk does this and say why is this happening oh well it has

always happened it's always been one of those things it's usually the stories i've always heard about artists who come to l.a. and you said it's a very west coast of the united states sort of thing and it's you know actors musicians they live out of their car save money and you know whatever but usually you don't see it leased out in the open but right after two thousand and eight after we had the two thousand and eight crash you did see a lot of people suddenly there were like campsites of people who had lost their homes or their jobs and that these things happen they just happen on the fringes so we don't see them so we think oh it's just happening now people are just living here now casey roach is a program director for new beginnings which is a counseling center that runs safe parking program she told gov a governing dot com the cost of housing is continually rising but social service programs aren't having any increase in funding if anything they're going to people are making a living but it's just not enough and that's the deal there's a gap because of the people at the bottom the bottom seventy five per cent love to

give it some room to say the bottom seventy five percent if their wages aren't going up the prices are still going up because these people making these people richer that bottom seventy five percent you can expect your. base to hold all the weight of your entire domain a lot of people are pulling it out of there you know retire the polling and other savings in the last report after report saying that you know if somebody most american u.s. citizens can't even afford like an extra four hundred dollars a year but if a charge for four hundred dollars comes out of nowhere there they can't they can't cover it and when you have this look people don't know if they should write is a like no you've taken away people's ability to later keep up with you know the economy and be able to buy things in the morning apartment but then you're going to say look we're going to throw you we're going to buy a new maybe i throw you in jail living on your car your last thing i mean many homeless advocates you know are now pushing for cities to start considering like safe parking programs are not as ignorant areas in the city where if you're living

on your car be you can go there and park the but the problem is most u.s. cities are exacerbating the problem by criminalizing it the national law center on homocysteine poverty tracks policies in one hundred eighty seven cities across the country and they observe that this is a bad as the permit the bans that permit vehicle impoundment can cause homeless people to lose their shelter transportation and personal belongings in one fell swoop with no realistic option to retrieve replace them so a lot of times like you know parking tickets or things like that will step up then boom they come in we're following your car away it's in the impound lot your car is all of your family possessions you know everything that you care about are going to charge you two hundred dollars a day that it's here that you can't pay it gets more expensive the longer it takes you to come up with the money and that's that's the problem with this and we need to start paying attention to this right now right now no one should be having to live out of their car. the all powerful all knowing all

consuming god that is amazon faces set back recently when it hired when its highly volunteered much discussed artificial intelligence howard facial recognition. recognition with the k made a slight snafu recently when it incorrectly matched the photos of twenty eight sitting u.s. congressional members to present their mug shots yes feed your reports the a.c.l.u. quote took twenty five thousand publicly available police mug shots and then asked recognition to compare those images to photos of all five hundred thirty five members of congress and when the results came in twenty eight lawmakers were positively i.d.d. by recognition as matching the faces of a rusty is no naturally amazon was none too pleased. about the test and no blog post amazon's general manager mout would argue that the a.c.l.u. simply use the default setting on the softer which would be too low for law enforcement needs stating the eighty percent confidence trust holder used by the

a.c.l.u. is far too low to ensure the accurate identification of individuals we would expect to see false positives of this level of confidence we were at about ninety nine percent for use cases where highly accurate face similary matches are important but settings aside with amazon's evolvement takeover shopping industry the grocery industry the newspaper industry should be really now trust me law enforcement is free no i mean good lord is there anything that amazon and jeff bezos doesn't have you know. as a fellow bald man little fingertips know and pharmaceuticals because member they bought us a royal company i mean good lord there's a certain point we have to step back and say ok maybe enough was enough and if you're you know brilliant facial recognition software can only be on the highest of highs settings to be trusted in its ability to do what you said it's supposed to be able to do maybe you should get out of the surveillance business to my favorite

part is when amazon says we recommend that for use in cases where highly accurate face similarity matches our porton it's a facial recognition program it's only job is to. recognized faces at a highly accurate level i would hope i mean look here you don't fault your default is doesn't work you know the it doesn't work i default like eighty percent which means it's going to be like this margin of error of what they say is humor says yeah you know i mean it's really what's worse though is in the you still use tell us there was racial bias growing the algorithm had a racial bias yes so the root actually reported that the a.c.l.u. is findings suggest that there was a major racial bias in the software because most of the politicians that were messed identified as criminals i don't think it was shocking to the folks. were black and white.