do you. want to shoot me a little. this hour's headlines stories. are disputed kashmir and countering pilots as the nuclear rivals violence escalates. so. dissipated some of the year is on the way as the u.s. and north korean leaders try and make headway over denuclearize ation and ending a decades long korean war. sources tell the washington post up the u.s. military disrupted internet access in russia to alleged election meddling during the midterm.

year churning in from right are running the globe welcome to moscow on to r.t. international good to have your company our top story there has been a dramatic escalation in tensions between india and pakistan india is demanding the return of a fighter pilot arrested by pakistan accusing it of violating the geneva convention by harming him pakistan earlier released video of the pilot with blood and bruises to his face the pilot was captured after pakistan shot down an indian war plane the video which we cannot independently verify is said to show the indian made twenty one fighter jet pakistan claims. in its airspace over kashmir that arrested two pilots india ses it's only one plane. pilot here and the

discrepancy between the two sides things. but what we're absolutely sure we're seeing now is the culmination of ten. what we're absolutely sure we're seeing now is the culmination of tensions that have been building with more regularity in recent years and essentially things have now come to a head to the importance and consequence of how things play out from here is very significant not just because these are two very powerful countries but because they are a nuclear armed enemy is so if this does continue to spiral downwards this doesn't just impact the region this could have an effect on the whole world pakistan is claiming claiming to have shot down two indian air force jets and captured two pilots and says that it's jets have launched air strikes in the indian territory a move that they claimed was in self-defense. pakistan is a responsible country and we don't want to endanger lives of masses we have yet retaliated to india all being done is just what irresponsible country does for its

defense our message use peace and not the war now india however claims that these those pakistani jets had been pushed back. was was to do. and force this point. in the. course. of the. order to do. this is. going to go. by that is missing in action. because. he is in their custody this comes just one day off to india claims that hit a militant training camp and killed a very large number of fighters from the militant group jayashri mohammed which took responsibility for that suicide bombing earlier this month which killed forty indian troops now in a bizarre twist pakistan rejected india's claim saying that indian fighters were

confronted before they conducted those strikes on the training camp and actually just dropped four or five bombs in an empty field and then fled back across the border so what's making this situation all the more hard to follow is how the two sides have these conflicting media campaigns both sides are pushing their own narrative and so a single source of contradictory information online and in the news but at the core of it what is very clear is what we're seeing is the first of the first aerial attacks across that line of control across that delicate kashmir border since the two countries were at war in one thousand nine hundred seventy one and speaking in the past hour the pakistani prime minister imran khan has called for a responsible approach he said noting how both of them are nuclear powers they really couldn't afford a miscalculation. now spike's intentions i have kashmir they have been up and down over the years and especially the violence really took hold in the sum of twenty sixteen but custom has always been contested territory even before india and

pakistan won their independence from britain and nine hundred forty seven let's have a reminder of the significance of kashmir. well there's now a multinational appeal for both sides to show restraint conduct talks we have been

getting reaction from next person both sides here's some of what they told us. from the box on air false but i would like to see peace in the region because both india and pakistan are nuclear weapons equipped and we do not have one of those to escalate to have mutually assured destruction because that is what will happen it will not remain a forthright action it will definitely escalate into a full scale of all we had it would be norms barred but you see india took an action yesterday and box than going to action today and retaliation and shut down go of the aircraft i'm hoping that we let it go are that you sit down and talk to each other and if india has actionable intelligence ah prime minister has assured even big different action i don't know where there will be no response from india because there was a response understood length of time to respond to. which is part of the pakistani body see that if there is an attack on their territory day it will have to respond and to order

a nuclear bomb was country and leaders know this to serve very high we just can't afford a full fledged gone truly so the hope is that things will not spin out of control and mozart was sort of caught dead last of the state and decided. let's modi destructor i'm going to look forward to some other means of going to the war my own means may be to reduce the amount you can create it can all be going on because. there are no winners and the military who are as we have seen so far. a landmark meeting is taking place between the u.s. president on the north korean leader donald trump and kim jong un are meeting in the then vietnamese capital annoy the key issues on the agenda are a potential compromise on the denuclearize ation of the korean peninsula as well as the lifting of crippling sanctions imposed on pyongyang. subsites honestly.

this is president trump second attempt at making peace of north korea the two leaders met really for the cameras and are now having close discussions behind closed doors the talks are i made up of two rounds one formal dinner and one on one talks but before coming to vietnam prison trip was under severe pressure to make a deal at the summit that came after criticism from opposition back home that said not enough was meet through the last summit between its leaders and singapore the first summit was a great success and i think this one hopefully will be equal or greater than the first we made a lot of progress and i think the biggest progress was our relationship is really a good one i think that your country has tremendous economic potential unbelievable unlimited. i think. you will from the future of your country a great leader and i look forward to watching it happen and helping it to happen and we will help with that trumper to read it in a tweet that the potential for

a deal is quote awesome both countries to sign a piece the collaboration to symbolically end the korean war the conflict ended in the arms this not actually a peace treaty back in one nine hundred fifty three which means the war is technically still ongoing north korea would agree to return more the remains of troops who died in the korean war also the u.s. is considering to opening up diplomatic office in north korea. could show the relations between washington are actually getting warmer north korea will agree to stop producing nuclear materials. facility and perhaps on the other ones as well in exchange the u.s. will push to lift some of the sanctions on pyongyang and will pursue a joint economic project with south korea but again it's not clear what the deal exactly we can expect from this meeting but the summit does not actually only concern washington in pyongyang so let's actually have a little look and see what are the other regional neighbors feeling about it. despite the fact japan's also over

a north korean test missiles flying over it the concern over the outcome of the talks after all if a deal is struck it's unclear whether japan's concerns will be addressed what made the situation worse with the allegations that japanese prime minister abby officially requested for trump to be nominated for the nobel peace price in fact i think i can say this prime minister abi of japan gave me the most beautiful copy of a letter that he sent to the people who give out a thing called the nobel price he said i have nominated you or respectfully in behalf of japan. i am asking them to give you the nobel peace price that did not go over well for the opposition especially after prime minister's office refused to comment on the allegations abduction nuclear insult to mid range missile issues not resolved at all i'm concerned that it would give the wrong message to north korea and the international community if we accept that the current situation deserves

the nobel peace prize. south korean president mean just like his ally in washington that has also said that he is expecting great things coming out of the summit. i expect it to be a turning point that advances completed denuclearization of the korean peninsula new u.s. north korean relations and a peace regime on the korean peninsula president moon might come out as the biggest winner of these talks and in a way it seems that he's risking more than anyone else if these talks lead to a dead end after all it's a country that will be among the prime targets for the nuclear capable north korean missiles south korean foreign minister said his country is looking forward to a quote tangible and substantial results with all the hopes skepticism and fears involved coming to a specific results might turn out to be a very tough challenge for everyone involved in the situation but considering that the idea of i.q. west north korean summit started absolutely impossible just two years ago maybe there's still a chance for

a happy conclusion. to another story we're closely following today the u.s. military has carried out its first offensive cyber operation against russia sources told the washington post that u.s. cyber command blocked internet access overseas to what they called a russian troll factory touring the twenty eight midterm elections re if an option is across the story for us. what we basically have is a washington post article claiming that the u.s. military minutes to block internet access to one russian known as internet research agency on the day of the country's make turns november last year. some in america believe that this might be informed in the alleged aim to fear reigns in the country's presidential elections back in two thousand and sixteen washington post a site in a number of officials all of whom spoke to the paper on the condition of anonymity has also added in the article that that attack in two thousand and eighteen was

just the beginning of what is supposed to be a massive cyber campaign against russia the operation merged the first muscle flexing by u.s. cyber command with intelligence from the national security agency under new authorities it was granted by president trump and congress last year to bolster offensive capabilities if it was true it simply shows how in secure cyber wise russia can be interested enough they snooze came at the time when this topic is highly debated here in russia on all levels earlier in february russia's state duma adopted the first trading of a draft law requiring all russia's space to ensure it can operate in the situation when russia's unplugged by foreign companies by foreign forces from the global network many refer to this document as internet isolation and there are critics of course saying that this is just the government's attempt to put some control on

online life but russian authorities keep saying that this is a measure to protect the country's security. i think this will bring huge damage to the u.s. so not only economic but also political damage but it is also but for the special services sitting there gathering all the information about you but don't be afraid i suppose they will think a hundred times before doing something theoretically anything is possible so we should create such segments that would be dependent on anybody on wednesday following the washington post article claiming that russia's darkest fear is and concerns over internet. he may already be a reality we asked russia's president spokesperson dmitri prisk off to comment on which you management of the internet is defacto carried out by several companies that potential threat letters to consider a sovereign internet it's not linked to the isolation closure of our country it's connected to protection against illegal actions. let's try and go through some of

the issues our correspondent just a ruse there with kevin curran a professor of cyber security at all straight university in northern ireland good to have you with us given how much effort do you think it would have taken the u.s. to carry out a cyber operation of such scale on russian territory. you would have to really two approaches to would it work on the low level of the network blocking the network three directional even using what we call denial of service attacks so at the network level they would have blocked access again so again that can be technically challenging but again they have a huge resource to be in a row for nine years again that they are one of the ten unified command units in the u.s. army and the cyber command unit again is that taking care of all cyber war for now they haven't released the exact specific details for national security reasons but

we do know that they did block access and we also know that they targeted individuals and that the trenton sanctions against these individuals of course about a year ago the monitoring fiske ation in the u.s. the special cultural or indicted thirteen russians again against this information campaigns just talking about what's come out of this cabin the kremlin spokesperson is concerned that russia could be unplugged from the world wide web hi possible is something like that given that the internet doesn't live in one country so to speak how could something about be pulled off. difficult to mean what you have really is the closest you have to any center like structure on the internet is film a name service again d.n.a. as we call it in the terms you're w w like yourself that column into numbers which really is how the ip address is how the internet routes packets they could be

attacked to some degree but really you can't bring them and what you can do all those leads try to attack the giants of the internet and people like cloud flare that coleman and the people would not really know about the public but again the traffic on the internet so we had each tear warm providers of traffic and which couldn't so we've had centuries brought against them or attacks but really the internet itself is quite resilient it was designed to be this system which really could repair itself can root around danger areas and bottlenecks again so it is not simple you can't really block access overnight in the region though you can get the gateways into a plan tree with the traffic comes in again but usually controlled by the contract themselves so really it's difficult to ever block access to one particular country as you're well aware that the internet is a global lifeline and in today's world being cut off can have serious consequences for everybody does that really is question is what is happening now is really about who controls the nuts and bolts what respect your last answer of course. if the

most part we do have international committees which oversee and you know that the way that the main the ins are in the sites reduce certain things to do with the standards of the internet again but what we really don't have is really any type of rules when it comes to cyber warfare and again we're seeing that the first well fence of attack that the u.s. have admitted to apart from they did take out islamic state trolls last year as well in syria but again generally we're seeing other countries are actually admitting in the u.k. themselves have admitted to using offensive cyber war fare tactics and again we're seeing that wars are increasingly. unfold in cyberspace. heaven thank you very much for your time this are very interesting turning about when you're in the program cybersecurity professor kevin kern from the university of ulster. all right coming up after the break the british police recruits refuse the job for being ahead through sexual white male let's next here are.

after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the book different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i want to the new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to suppressing. or not if. i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can think i was going to go. by the way ways of. the trumping ministrations attempts to impose regime

change in venezuela appear to be faltering the self-proclaimed interim president. hasn't gained much traction this me explain the administration's escalating rhetoric after all we're told a military option is still on the table. a british police force has been found guilty of discrimination after it rejected an uplift since it is a white heterosexual male that's the decision reached by an employment tribunal in northwest england cheshire police were in the middle of a diversity drive when they turned twenty five year old matthew furlong who wants to follow his father into the force. it is my confidence in the

police force recruitment system how do i do my interview form and said i was bisexual for instance there's a strong possibility i would be working for cheshire police now based on a lie. cheshire police themselves say they're aware of the tribunals decision and have agreed to review the results matthew's lawyer says it is the first discrimination case of its kind in the u.k. we put the issue up for debate with political and social commentator more on tar and stephen morris from the english democrats party what they're doing they are blatantly discriminating against people so any trust people have in the police is going to be gone you know how can you trust them when you know full well that they are not looking to recruit the best people for the job they are just recruited based on ticking a box so in fact what we see stephen and the others who might think like him is that discrimination and treating people less favorably but for their race or their

protective characteristic has been going on for decades and pretty. sad to say by white heterosexual men and they have had the jobs they've had the lion's share of income even though we monitor equal pay they will still have the lion's share and so positive action is about redressing a balance about saying that when things him oh no no no no positive is racially sort of that let me off a little to. no no no sorry steve stephen i'm sorry i'll correct you in a matter of fact and a matter of law having taken race discrimination cases all the royal courts of justice no offense to stephen but this is now i do it well i'm not sure tribune official i do with race relations cases on the nasa try to do the employment role as a trade union. well i don't use racism the positive about it discriminate you discriminate against. it is racism we've seen racism in the police force now racism is wrong it

should be done on nothing else right now if you're saying positive faction that's just annoyed with related immigration. when we look at positive action we're talking about underrepresented minorities whether they are black whether they're muslim jewish gay bisexual transgender all the people we need policies which are in society and absolutely you are right and the trouble potentially is right and it's finding if they have treated him less badly but for his sex nor to doing this to. him that i was in question he was saying if he was here well let's see i mean appeals and things happen but at the minute the fighting we have is that but for the fact of his race and it being bisexual he had been he had been more like got a job i agree we cannot discriminate even against which is wrong be sure you know should heterosexual men it's all about freedom of choice if people do not want to go join the police then fine but find out the reasons why it's not purely down to the recruitment process that. people from the pain groups or the gay groups.

ok a quick look ahead to a program we have lined up for you today in fact this very hour we do you believe you find it informative it is quite a watch every year hundreds of children in the philippines are sold off by their families to traffickers many end up in the hands of affiliated groups where the groom to fight and to kill are to you've been following the plight of filipino child soldiers in our latest documentary crisis child. all my own are sixteen months honestly did you know. nothing about it. kinda. just foreign. isis fighters and no boarding

a philippine naval ship. but not. me ned to i mean they. just aren't abdulla still don't know what's waiting for them and i don't know if you. stay. up to get out of. the. you know i was coming up in sixty minutes from now it is a great watch i have to say i watched it last hour ok but for now we are concentrating on venice will and going in depth on the crisis unfolding in the south american country life from moscow this is twenty four seven r.t.

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us still hold off and i am not taking. up take it out on. the man on the plane. war. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to be close it's like before three of them or ten people get. interested in the waters of the house. there should be. my son in this doing drugs my nephew's was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an

epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in. prison for inconceivable long sentences for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. hello

and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle trumpeting ministrations attempts to impose regime change on venezuela appear to be faltering the self-proclaimed interim president though how to gain much traction this may this may explain the administration's escalating rhetoric after all we are told the military option is still on the table. cross talking venezuela i'm joined by my guest down the bar in new york he's an anti-war activists and host of a daily radio program in geneva we have desires he is a professor of law at geneva school of diplomacy and a former u.n. independent expert on the promotion of democratic and equitable international order and in ottawa we cross to isaac no one survived the he is

a venezuelan canadian professor at the university of ottawa all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to alfred first in geneva and congratulate him on his report that he presented to the united nations i thought it was very enlightening i wish more people would read it particularly in the media and maybe in the american political class why does the united states feel that it's incumbent upon itself to fix the problems of venezuela no one denies venezuela has a lot of problems but why should an outside power like the united states that has a very checkered and i'm being very polite here checkered history and meddling in latin america so i mean why is the trump administration and of all people elliott abrams appointed to fix venezuela. well you know stephen cantor's book overthrow and william blown blew.