do you. mean a little. the second trump. ends or promptly with no deal reached neither side could find. the denuclearized korean peninsula. on the facebook is accused of centering conservative voices as a whistleblower reveals how the social network content limits exposure. would see it appear on several different conservative pages like maybe this is an independent person is mainstream thing maybe independent figures on the left are experiencing the same kind of blue state. but i didn't see. french

sporting goods retailer is forced to drop. in. received violent threats we get reaction. so if she wants to wear it it's shari's it's not an act of secularism i will not go so far as to say. it's very and . they have to cancel. twenty four seven news live from moscow this is r t international your company. our top story there were high hopes. but both donald trump and kim jong come away empty handed from their much anticipated second summit the talks ending earlier than expected with the u.s. president blaming north korea's the mantra for lifting sanctions for the figure to

cut it came as a surprise to many after the optimism shown by both leaders before the talks. the first summit was a great success and i think this one hopefully will be equal or greater than the first where he could have heard that last week in the paper that would. always have to be prepared to walk i could have signed an agreement today and then you people would have said oh oh what a terrible deal what a terrible thing to do you know you have to be prepared to walk. and walk he did well our correspondent in a hug. sums up what became

a much shorter second day of the summit talks were cut short because the agreement was made the two were actually supposed to have lunch and have a signing ceremony which never happened bill the reason behind that was because the leader of north korea actually one of the sanctions of the united nations touches on pyongyang and tiredly lifted and bill there was about a sanctions when the major 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 new 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 of the sanctions that cannot give just whatever the leader wanted so what he said is that it was in a good time to actually sign a 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 in has he also repeatedly kept on 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 on 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. well director of the china national association of international studies told me earlier donald trump has lessons to learn. president obama seems to be very eager to please try to be

a real soul. stage and he wants to monopolize all the credit for himself so let's give him some more chance let him try again for example another summit all too and hopefully reality will dawn on him that this is not a song called ata. this is not a personality issue this is real hardcore jewel politics in this situation countries like china and russia are very crucially important no one should be left behind and eventually i think only denuclearize asia will count that's what we expect to achieve one way or another on the korean peninsula. led to another story we're closely following today transparency group project veritas has exposed what it claims is a series of tubes used by facebook to target politically conservative pages and restrict their content with

a warning they include classing poses hate speech limiting live streams on suppressing the reach of those posts here in fact is what the whistleblower behind the claims have to say i.e. handled copyright and trademark claims and in the course of doing my duties i noticed other things that were going on in accounts and that is why i came forward i would see it appear on several different conservative pages so what did the former facebook employee find our correspondent nic here and join me in the studio earlier for more. the what has been revealed all this whistleblower is alleging to have uncovered four she described as methods of suppression being used by facebook tolls that would d. boost the traffic of accounts considered to be a conservative leaning meaning that their followers would receive notifications whenever these pages these accounts dates their profiles in some cases content was allegedly removed without even letting the users know now this insider who formerly

worked in the intellectual property departments of facebook has stumbled across these goings on she said when she noticed them unusual goings on with some accounts first i was wondering whether this is something. i had a couple working theories i was like maybe this is an independent versus mainstream thing maybe independent thinkers on the left are experiencing the same kind of d. boosting but i didn't see that i looked at. the young turks page i love that column capper next page none of them had received the same d. boost but you know she's not the only one that's coming out with similar allegations there's another facebook employee who is exposed how such tools are being applied to certain accounts that facebook deems to be offensive or contain hate speech conservative side of things there. which is point there's a lot of stuff being said on the left that is not involved in these posts

essentially what you see it's all one sided exactly and facebook is targeting certain post it doesn't particularly like with terms such as offensive in haste these terms of being used broadly things that are actually hate speech but that might. offend somebody. you know anything that is perceived as hateful even though no court would define it as hate speech now if these allegations are proven to be accurate it would be another blow for their facebook name especially seeing how it contradicts what the c.e.o. mark zuckerberg told congress when he said he didn't want his company acting on the political ideology of content we have reached out to facebook for comment on these alleged boosting tools they haven't got back to us so far he also said they're going. after the twenty sixteen election so it's conflicting kind of comments from . his point would be though how do we know these claims are actually credible when

they're going out into the press that is a whistleblower or how do we know she's telling the truth what we do know that she definitely did work for facebook because although facebook didn't get back to as they did respond to another media outlet who they told. that was she must have been a disgruntled former employee so we know she definitely worked for them and they say that she was fired when they found out she was working with project veritas what she brought out is has been verified that this is happening on the conservative side of things but what we know well it wouldn't be surprising because it's not the first time a social media giant has been outed by project veritas as well last year we had the allegations with twitter when project veritas released undercover first to have twitter employees stuff a parent to admit to silencing conservatives they were saying how they used the algorithms to bury particular tweets every thirteen years as. exactly so use as

one seeing what these a particular people were posting because they were being buried by these algorithms twitter at the time denied any complicity in the actions of its stuff but the most worrying thing here is that it exposes this impression that these social media giants like facebook and twitter that so many of us use pretty much on a daily basis could have political leaning or not has twentieth implication in the us it for me years ago he wouldn't have been that important because it didn't have so much import in the lives of young people there's millions of people becoming voters sixteen eighteen year olds and they put a lot into social media so this is why it's becoming a huge issue and it's we're not going to hear the end of this for some time indeed the power of social media one example of how our facebook is clamping down is that it's bound british anti islamic activist tommy robinson from the platform on instagram to. when ideas and opinions cross 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 these 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 . robinson's bonfire of his supporters online completing the move is a politically motivated step to censor free speech all those praise the ban for targeting hate speech social media companies have been stepping up efforts to block content that's deemed offensive but there is why disagreement over what point online policing becomes censorship. it's very clear that if used to join the social media giant company pages and you set up your own page then you have to abide by

their rules and regulations and one you don't peddle hate want to you don't tarnish you know. legitimize the. you know that racism and xenophobia towards just muslims are just innocent acceptable and the fact that you are called out for your hatred should be welcome this is censorship the online world is the new public sphere and it's wrong that major corporations like facebook like instagram have the power to remove opinions from public consideration and in drawing attention to what he sees to be the radicalization of britain and i don't agree with his position on that point but i think the really worrying thing is that these arguments about islam are now being pushed out the public square into a sphere where they're not being challenge to not being considered 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 you slam on muslims then that's ok in a free society and what isn't acceptable is to perpetuate the hatred towards one particular community looking at the crimes of just one particular community and then not expect there to be a reaction so i'm really glad that these social media companies i work or not it's easy for people to now conclude that there is this mission on behalf of social media companies to and censor right wing opinions out of the mainstream you know the significant precedent for this now the idea that facebook is silence in the far right is laughable what facebook is doing is saying if you peddle hate and lies are part of a community if you tarnish a whole community if you are the key or encourage violence towards that community then action will be taken and that's what's been done i'm not someone of the right but i recognise that that is a real problem because it gives all of these individuals

a chance to say that their arguments are too dangerous to hear and if the public square is good for anything it's good for the child. the meaning with arguments and the more we try and push this on the ground the more those ideas will go unchallenged they'll reach people without interruption they'll meet they'll be communicated to people without having any contrary point of view put forward and i think that is why said the ship is always so dangerous. among our stories ahead why mixing religion and sports where is the viking people in front. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be

president. want to listen. to going to be pros which is what before three of them all can't be good. i'm interested in the war. warren buffett you know doing the stock buybacks which is you know used to be illegal so recently that's completely fraudulent and yes no governance or oversight whatsoever you know he's a more the more of the biggest are the biggest shareholder of wells fargo for example during that period when they were engaged in serial criminality when they were engaged in absolute fraud and he's a party to that so here's a guy who given unlimited credit at zero percent and is exempt from the rule of law still can't seem to make money for his shareholders what's his name.

return with our top story the failure of the u.s. and north korean leaders to reach agreement after shortened summit in vietnam which president trump blamed on demands to lift sanctions school to u.s. politics professor dr robert gucci from britain's long custer university good to have you on the show how would you describe in the outcome of this summit is no deal better than. well you know the canceling of the of the summit a little bit early is surprising it seems. that they're sending a message. but it's. refusing is exactly what that message is might have been better just to hold out for the next two hours had lunch in part ways as though everything was ok quite frankly it's even confusing from an american perspective

why this conference was needed and exactly what donald trump is hoping to get from from these conversations could walking away from the table games and ship essentially is not a part of trump's negotiating tactic here we do know he was criticized from the first summit of the american media saying he'd given too much away but it's a risky business with a nuclear power. well certainly you know donald trump is walking away from tables in treaties left and right not only domestically but internationally with other sorts of other sorts of deals particularly those dealing with with nuclear weapons so certainly if donald trump someone who decides to walk away from the table he is sending a message that he's winning he's not willing to concede any further but again from an american perspective this wasn't something that was on the agenda for most

for most americans certainly they seem to like to view north korea as an enemy and so you know this is showing donald trump is being presidential it seems when certainly at home he's having a hard time showing that he is presidential particularly when he has so much conflict within his own party about the type of work he's doing what about the role of the cations robert to this what do you expect not just relations between us north korea but even more widely in the region which is really what this summit was all about. yeah i mean it's positioning the united states in a way of saying we are willing to work with others but it. it's also sending the message that the united states is still going to continue to hold the cards in terms of sanctions and over all directions and that the united states is able to

make its own decisions about itself as a nuclear power by not willing to allow other nations to see that sort of freedom if it were so the united states is stepping up its efforts of saying we're here we're not going to we're not going to go away but it's also hidden behind you know conversations that somehow we would have free trade with with north korea and that we wouldn't at some point be asking for further concessions beyond nuclear weapons but into a democratization of that country i did mention big economic benefits that need it that could come from north korea big development we watch this robert u.s. politics professor dr robert from lancaster university in the u.k. thank you. it's another big story of the week venice deepening political crisis we'll see the u.n. security council convene in just a number of hours from now to vote on rival resolutions from the u.s.

and russia washington has spent more than a month leading efforts we know to president maduro in favor of opposition to one of the clinton self bennis we list interim president let's go live to our correspondent at the trunk of his across a story i want to do we actually know about the differences between the resolutions . well when you look at the resolution draft it is actually vital to understand what's going on what are the priorities what are the pillars what's in the core of the resolutions and when it comes to the russian one it is the sovereignty and independence of venezuela and also the condemnation of outside interference let's have a look at what else is in that resolution. expressing concern over the threats to use force against the territorial integrity and political independence

of the bolivarian republic of venezuela. russia also once everything to be done within the u.n. framework they are calling and they want the u.n. security council to call for some sort of peaceful resolution of this involving the talks between all sides that will happen under the constitution russia has also said already that it will block the american draft which it called a mix of demagoguery accusatory record rhetoric sorry and ultimatums now the pillars of that american resolution draft as early and fair democratic elections and also the immediate green light for humanitarian aid deliveries however we heard from the vet as well a leadership that these american humanitarian aid deliveries could be a pretext for intervention even though they're happy to get humanitarian aid from

the you and they also believe that when it comes to the american humanitarian convoys they may involve some sort of. weapons or some other things that could help fuel the unrest in. these ideas have been at code by moscow and we understand that perhaps we are heading for another dead log at the u.n. security council later today when it's almost certain that the americans will block the russian resolution and vice versa as well ok we await to see just what happens there in the patrol car to correspondent thank you. donald trump's discreet former lawyer michael cohen testified before congress on wednesday and failed to provide any evidence of collusion between the president and russia he also didn't get the warmest of welcomes out the hearing with congress members accusing him of being a liar it was cool and himself pulled no punches when speaking about his old bulls

. 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. 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 cohen is capable of telling the truth he lied to congress through false statements and written statements he lied to congress through his testimony even amplified his false statements by releasing him refuting his lies to the public. because it.

now colin was a trump confidant for more than a decade after his moment in the spotlight he will begin a three year prison sentence in the spring for tuck's bank fraud as well as lying to congress we discussed his testimony with former us republican congressman michael patrick flaunt it. 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 colin 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 to the state of new york despite of the polls 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. moving on a major french sporting goods retailer has dropped plans to sell a sports version of the he jumped in front to kathlyn said it had hoped to build on the successful sales the garmin generated in morocco charlotte dubin ski explains why the idea sparked controversy before even reaching 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 cast one just stop 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 to cast the. 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 the gods. 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. fox 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 they were 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 is just emotional screwed if. we even should be able to wear whatever they like forbidden to seal this clothes is just ridiculous as committed shocked me and that they have to cancel the sales it's not an act of secularism i will not go so far as to say islamophobia but it's very and to slum ik. people should dress according to their own tastes i don't think there's much controversy about this issue with rick. 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 capital star say they have been threatening . our customer service team has received over five hundred calls and e-mails since

this morning our teams in our stores have been insulted and threatened sometimes physically before the florida supreme court out of the starting blocks the force of the opposition saw the capitol back down it would no longer sell in the sports he job here but it's a no win situation for the retailer which is also being criticized the pandering to collective hysteria that reveals the level of islamophobia here in france show that people ski nazi paris right online activists are money big protests are showing you're from french national rally party had their say on the issue. 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 the different options available for different types of one it that's the whole point is that especially in industries like fashion actually take up some fully supported their decision to

quit the. sport he chat on the french market in their stores it was only after there was a huge public outcry. that 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 you. off their shelves here in france because of the huge pressure from the public. but just a reminder you can delve deeper into any of those stories on our website fresh stories to buy the minutes on our t's twitter page more great programs lie just ahead in seconds i'm not see you again here in thirty.

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