but there are no moscow in the headlines today the second kim summit ends abruptly in the last few hours in annoying with no deal reached the sides failed to find common ground on sanctions and denuclearization. facebook's accused of censoring conservative voices of whistle blowers revealed how the social media giant suppresses content and limits exposure. from former lawyer in the news he's admitting he has no evidence of russian collusion after being grilled in congress members accusing me of being a liar. how on earth is this witness credible he's a fake witness his presence here is a travesty and you have a history of lying over and over and over again i don't believe that michael

coleman is capable of telling the. good afternoon brokaw's to run the world life. with you this is our international we all here appreciate your company and shooting to us today so the big news in from hanoi vietnam donald trump and kim jong un have ended the second to summit much earlier than expected with no deal reached it was all pretty sudden in the last hour or so according to president trump who gave a media conference this was the result of disagreements over how far north korea has to get to get sanctions lifted on it let's go to. the seas down there in the noise hey yeah this was all quite unexpected wasn't it those so much talk about everyone getting all well but the last minute it was abandoned over on the surface if you listen to my pompei and donald trump they said no big progress had been.

made but end of the day nothing on paper that's right yeah. kevin and as you said earlier the talks were cut short because no agreement was made the two were actually supposed to have lunch and have a signing ceremony which never happened because of the agreement was was was made now the reason behind that agreement was because the president of north korea the leader of north korea actually wanted the sanctions of the united nations unappealing gang and tiredly lifted. and there was about a sanctions when the various third summit was to present basically they wanted these sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that. they were willing to do knew go large portion of the areas that we wanted but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for the. donald trump said that he could not give up entirely the sanctions and cannot give just whatever the leader wanted so what he

said is that it was in a good time to actually sign the deal and sometimes that's what great leaders do they just walk away for something to happen later on to potentially get actually get a bit of a better deal and what's interesting also here to point out is that he also mentioned that it's been a productive time between the two but i guess you also repeatedly repeatedly saying that the deal was made because of the u.n. sanctions that he didn't agree with now that in the side on what's going to happen on the korean peninsula whether they're going to dismantle all the or the nuclear facilities but what he did promise was no missiles will be flying over the korean peninsula in the time being now if there's going to be a third summit that not clearly see if it's going to happen but there was kind of open when that when that was mentioned another interesting factor to point out is that the two leaders of the regional leaders of korea and japan would be very very interesting the un their reactions on how what they have to see the outcome of this deal because if anyone has to lose it's pretty much them to yeah to set up big

headline no date set yet for a further summit mr trump said he didn't know when it would be but as case watch this space i guess. there in illinois thanks for the thanks the update i spoke to two of brian becker from the anti war on soko elation he thinks even though the meeting ended the way it doesn't mean it went badly. i think that what we witnessed with donald trump's press conference was a clear indication that this meeting while it didn't come to a final conclusion did not break up in rancor it did not break up and extreme hostility. trump spoke very favorably about kim jong un he talked about the prospects for peace as still there he said he wouldn't talk about new economic sanctions he said we just didn't get a chance to cross the finish line he made other indications that perhaps they had other intelligence about other nuclear facilities beyond young bonn that they sort of. brought up with the north koreans in the north koreans while perhaps ready to

close one of the reactors was not aware that the u.s. knew perhaps about other facilities i don't think this means the process is ended he did trump did not agree to another or second summit he certainly didn't rule it out either and again the tone was all important here i think we're ahead of where we were two years ago the possibility for peace is still there both sides if both sides want if there's will and determination it certainly can happen. in the headlines today donald trump's describes film a lawyer michael cohen testified before congress wednesday and failed to provide any evidence of trump russia collusion he didn't get a welcome of the hearing where congressman accused him of being elia killed himself pulled no punches either when he talked about his ex boss. today i am here to tell the truth about. he is a racist. is a con man. and he is a cheat mr trump knew of and directed the trump moscow negotiations throughout the

campaign and lied about it and i have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from president trump ladies and gentlemen how on earth is this witness credible he's a fake witness his presence here is a travesty and you have a history of lying over and over and over again he said we were in charge of the truth i don't believe that michael coleman is capable of telling the truth he lied to congress through false statements and written statements he lied to congress through his testimony even if his false statements by releasing him refuting his lies to the public with. because of. course the crucial thing to bear in mind here is that cohen was actually a trial for them for a long time more than a decade after his moment in the spotlight now he's going to begin a three year prison sentence in the spring for tax fraud as well as lying to

congress we discussed his testimony with former us republican congressman michael patrick flanagan. as we call it in the united states when election season comes near we call it the silly season and in the silly season silly things happen this is a little early. something that you'd see in the silly season cohen is willing to use the word racist and criminal and liar and anyone who's willing to speak in that absolute in that strongest terms in washington will always have an audience on one side or the other there was just an angry man who wanted to be chief of staff who didn't get to be chief of staff who was furious he couldn't make a ton of money off the trump name after trump was elected president has decided after all that he needs to get even in a vicious new york stupid sort of way and so he's going to come to congress and lie some more he's been disbarred for lying that the state of new york despite of the polled his law license because he's a liar a man who took their promise who took that oath and then took another oath in front of congress and has lied constantly can't be trusted ever to tell the truth even if

he is telling the truth it will require cooperation substantiation and some backup and none of that was provided today. so as no evidence is collusions been provided by trump's former closest ally the us media nonetheless hoping for another shot this time that much anticipated a long running report by the special comes the robot mullah for two year long investigation the results are due to be released soon in the coming weeks and the media is already bracing itself just in case of a no collusion revelation at the end of it. robert muller's work is nearly done justice department is preparing to announce its early as next week that attorney general bill barr has received a molar confidential order that's not going to the d.o.j. is telling reporters now those reports are all will he or won't bob mahler's long anticipated report into trump's alleged collusion with russia is expected to be released later this week or maybe not media is covering every leak into the

possible timing at this point even though we don't have the information the media and certain outlets seem to be doing damage control this is all building up to the report and love to speculate about this because it certainly high drama on lies are again focused on robert moment there's at least a possibility of miller wrapping up without more indictments this report is almost certain to be anti-climactic a stark contrast to the media's previous wall to wall coverage of the collusion extravaganza the walls feel like they're closing in on the trump administration right now and i'm not sure they can hold them off for much longer the walls are closing in and everyone is freaking out the walls are closing the wheels are coming off. the walls are closing in on president trump the walls are closing it with trump on the walls are closing in on the trump white house. all of the walls are closing in at this point the walls are closing in fast. the collusion investigation

is stretched out almost two years now and it's cost the taxpayers apparently twenty five million dollars and from the beginning donald trump has been adamant that there is nothing to find the politics of revenge resistance and retribution the entire thing is being a witch hunt the rush of hoaxes the hopes the which believe me there's no collusion dozens of people have been indicted on multiple charges but so far none of them have been related to any alleged collusion with russia you've got individuals like paul man a fort roger stone and michael flynn who been in. cited for among other things making false statements to the investigators they have uncovered anything related to the crime that bob mueller was originally investigating however the investigation itself has led to new crimes being committed so despite the fact that not much has really been discovered over the course of the last two years there are some who are expecting that the final report will contain smoking gun revelations that will topple the administration or maybe not the investigation when completed

could turn out to be quiet and it comerica not draw a conclusion about it again i don't know so the final report will draw a line in the sand and everyone can just move on can't they if he finds that there was no direct collusion between the trump campaign and russia well we're going to have to do our own investigation and we are a short moeller report would mark the end of the beginning not the beginning of the end this saga for the president as legal saga doesn't appear to be anywhere close to being over as the president hopes so we've got a rather costly report that has not yet been released the conclusions of which we have not yet seen but yet the media is already making excuses for it and we're hearing that congress may pick up the investigative but htat why because as they say their show must go on welcome to american politics in twenty nineteen cable mopp and r.t. new york. this is new interpol transparency group project veritas is expose what it

claims is a series of tools used by facebook to target right wing pages restrict their content without warning they include closing posts is hate speech they would sing live streams and suppressing the reach of post is fun a bit more about this with these nicaea and so on the surface is a good thing but think what's going on here well once happened is the best form of facebook employee has come forward and exposed how the media giants is actively discriminating against conservatives by using software manipulations that basically pages and posts belonging to conservatives would be de. for instance notifications would be disabled so users wouldn't get any notifications that their page has been updated and also in some cases facebook was even taking down material and not letting the users know now see the inside they describe this as methods of suppression being used by facebook and it's methods that seems that became especially active around the time of elections history is. read.

because again though there's an opinion has crossed the line and amount to hate speech that may create an environment of intimidation and exclusion for certain groups in society in some cases with potentially dangerous offline implications we take action tommy robinson's facebook page has repeatedly broken the standards posting material that uses dehumanizing language and calls for violence targeted at muslims he has also behaved in ways that violate our policies around organized hate . now the insider here is a former content review analyst for the company stumbled across these goings on and she noticed them all things on the various accounts but she isn't the only one who's come forward with such information there's another facebook employee also exposed how a news feed reduction strategy was being used which was applied to accounts which could be labeled as offensive and this term was used pretty broadly you know it was attached to

a right wing right leaning individuals also even mainstream media in some cases and organizations now if proven to be true this would be another blow to the credibility of facebook especially after facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg testified to congress congress saying he didn't want his company acting on the political ideology of content so we have requested comment from facebook on the d. boost technology they are exposed to have been using they haven't got back to us yet but they have responded to another media outlet and they rubbish the claims by this. this insider describing him as simply a disgruntled former employee. we all know about the problems of facebook etc etc over with children they're up against either which way should they do more should they do less do they do it either which will just facebook of course clamping down on freedom of speech or is it not an arsehole but this facebook has been published as you said by the undercover journalism group project veritas who last year in

january last year revealed undercover footage of twitter staff appearing to admit to silencing conservatives in some cases using censorship algorithms against users which basically find makes it more difficult for users to find tweets by these particular users but stop short of deleting them altogether we can take a look at a snippet of that undercover video. read. oh. oh oh oh. there was a very. good. well to it at the time tonight complicity in the actions of its staff project various assets claiming that these exposes simply reveal how media giants like twitter alright well it's interesting how this story is coaxes of a similar one that's comparable to tell of use about which i'll do these right wing activists tell me robin the sun from the platform and instagram to check this.

when ideas and opinions crossed the line it amount to hate speech that may create an environment of intimidation and exclusion for certain groups in society in some cases with potentially dangerous offline implications we take action tommy robinson's facebook page has repeatedly broken these once targeted at muslims he has also behaved in ways that violate our policies around organized hate. well robert burns fired up the online community many are concerned that the move is a politically motivated step to censor free speech others though of praise the ban as a measure to target hate speech depends which way look at it it comes after social media companies as we just mentioned there with nicky have been stepping up efforts to block content deemed as offensive but as our guests argue next there is a fine line to be trade between free speech and online censorship. but you join social media networks you agree to the terms and conditions which those companies set out and it's very clear that he's deliberately and on numerous

occasions misused the terms and conditions he's been given warning enough to warn you the reasons that facebook game for this baron are all drawn in very vague language there's very few specifics about exactly which conduct cross the line in terms of their community gardens facebook twitter and social media is the new public sphere it's a place where people interact argue share content and share ideas and if the public square is good for anything it's good for challenging and being with arguments think that inevitably brings with it certain obligations to stand up and defend freedom of speech well it's not about freedom of speech i mean would freedom of speech comes responsibility so if you want to criticize and question is slam on muslims then that's ok in a free society but what isn't acceptable is toward every single most i'm responsible for the actions of a small minority of terrorists i think this censorship which does seem to be

targeted against people who sell particular opinions is so damaging because it undermines that public role but private companies are playing so in the last forty eight hours i've had probably two thousand two thousand five hundred comments on my public facebook page i've had messages i've had death threats that's all been done by people on facebook so the idea that facebook is silence in the far right is laughable what facebook is doing is saying if you peddle hate and lies about a community then action will be taken and that's what's been done when you read the facebook reasons for banning him they're drawn in very vague and under to kill a language which i think should make any defender of free speech very uncomfortable . let us know your thoughts go the common section of all the stories you'll see on araa r.t. dot com this is arts international i'm kevin though it when we come back controversy sparks amid plans to sell a sports version of the hejab in france. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. here in dramatic development only and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. the world can't afford to return to the unrestrained nuclear competition of the cold war that was the plea made by the u.n. secretary general earlier this week with the u.s. pulling out of the treaty and russia rolling out new nuclear weaponry should we be more worried about the weapons themselves or the people who have their codes.

past midday moscow time welcome to the program next sporting goods retailer to kathlyn has dropped plans to sell a sports version of a job in france the company says it hopes to build on the success of it previously in morocco it was not to be in france shela dubai the ski explains why it sparked controversy before it even hit the shelves. it's incredible how such a small piece of material can cause such a commotion but here in france that's exactly what's happened over plans by the retailer to cattle and just stock a sports version of a hit job a muslim headscarf. as

well as an outpouring of twitter outrage several politicians have called for a boycott of to cast all. sport emancipates it does not submit my choice as a woman and a citizen would be to no longer trust a brand that breaks with our values the french health minister has also waded into the debate to go. it's legal but it's a vision of women that i do not share i think it does not fit well with the values of our country. hearts is a secular country with a hit job as well as the christian cross have been banished from state classrooms and also from government offices no religious symbols outlawed and in fact there were a common sight on the streets of france but many argue that face and body covering garments such as those worn by loosely women are seen as being a method to subjugate them but others including castle say such items make it easier for muslim women to take part in activities such as sports interest

emotional screwed if i may play women women should be able to wear what to the not be the girls and it's not an act of securities and it's not a market i would go she's part of something called big but it's more and islam eek . people should dress according to their own tastes i don't think there's much controversy about this issue play pool with pick. is to merit a masters practiced so if she wants to wear it you know it's her choice but the backlash has been so big that even to castle star scene they have been threatened to. our customer service team has received over five hundred calls and e-mails since this morning our teams in our stores have been in solid unfriend sox the force of the opposition sort the capitol back down it will no longer sell the sports he job here but it's a no win situation for the retailer which is also being criticized for pandering to

collectively styria that reveals the level of islamophobia here in france show that people ski auti paris writes an online activism on a. petition show you know from the french national front party or this own it. we choose to cover up because it places our body on our terms independent of the male gaze it's necessary for us to have different options available for different types of when it that's what will point is that is specially in industries like fashion actually take up some fully supported and decision to quit the job the sport he chat on the french market in this it was only after there was a huge public outcry. that state crawled back so you know basically don't has no scruples could become known as a capitalist company they only want to make profits and they weren't forced they were forced to take the. over their shows here in france because of the huge

pressure from the public. most if not for me kevin no fault of the fallout from aborted big trump kim jong un summit in vietnam that ended as a headline in no deal more details on that you can follow a site out tito come on you know me but anyway if you don't either up free to mobile devices here or moscow for now is kevin i would say thanks for watching his bullets in war for me and thirty minutes more great programs for you and your part of the world right after this break. you know world's big partners who mock us and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle

for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. nor make this manufacture consent to public. when the right wing clauses protect themselves. in the final larry you're around to listen to the one person. doing all middle of the room signals. the real news is. we came here where you were before you came here when you live. in many us states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting

for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor of the death penalty there are some people because of what they did they have given up the right to live among us somebody even proven innocent after years on death row but how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize this is not working and we actually do something about. our. hello and welcome to the part of the world cannot afford to return to the on the restraint nuclear competition of the cold war that was depleted from the u.n.

secretary general earlier this week coming after the american decision to pull out from the i.n.f. treaty and russia's roll out of new nuclear weaponry is there reason to be worried if not about the nukes that the people have their codes. well to discuss that i'm now joined by john miller a professor of political science at ohio state university and senior fellow at the cato institute in washington professor miller's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you nice to be here a few months ago you published an article in foreign affairs magazine the other pretty provoke a tiff tato nuclear weapons don't matter well they seem to matter quite a lot of good here is the un secretary general and many other high ranking europeans who seem to be quite concerned about moscow and washington new arms race in the europe are they deluded. well they just overly anxious i think they do make

a lot of difference in terms of anxieties and obviously in terms of defense budgets but i don't think they've been necessary or history in any important way since world war two in that article you say that nuclear weapons were not necessary for deterring a third world woold war and it's striking to me that you use the past tons do you think that the prospects for a third world war has vanished by now i would say pretty much yes obviously things can still happen but the likelihood is unbelievably small it was also very small during and during the cold war and it's even sleazy even lower now it seems to me why do you think it was so small given that even the examples from the from the pop culture of people traveling the mushroom cloud the sting singing about the possible destruction and supposedly russians loving their children too as the only way out though for a nuclear catastrophe yes there was all kinds of anxiety as i said and there's all

kinds of fiction about it but essentially all sides in the cold war and all sides in this period do not want to do anything and resemble anything like world war two with or without nuclear weapons they're just simply has no desire for war and if no one wants to get into a war certainly a big war it's simply not going to happen well i think the filling in moscow is much less a beat in terms of fundamentals they risk is indeed low i would agree with you there is no ideological or rational reason for why we should come to the brink of mutual destruction but situational factors of the state of the american political system the competence of policymakers political polarization all of that according to some russian thinkers at least increases their risk of misunderstanding brinkmanship do you disagree with the op. yes largely i mean i mean i'm not going

to argue that the world the united states is being led by the shrewdest president in the history of the country but the desire on both sides i think for war is extremely small if i give you one example during the crimean problem obama was constantly being pressured to do more to help the ukrainians and obama once said ok do you want me to go to war with.