the second trial. ends abruptly with no deal reached. also facebook is accused of. a whistleblower reveals how the social networks. in the course of doing my duties i noticed other things that were going on accounts i would see it appear on several different conservative pages. french sporting.

version. from first received threats we get reaction in. so she was too worried. that they have to cancel the sound it's not an act of secularism and that i will not go to see. a run the clock across the world this is your r.t.e. international from the team and myself you know we'll hello and welcome top story. there were high hopes and noise but both donald trump and kim jong come away empty handed from their much anticipated second summit the talks ended earlier than expected with the u.s. president blaming north koreans the mom's over lifting sanctions for the failure to

cut a deal 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 or if you prefer that you pay for that would. always have to be prepared to walk i could have signed an agreement today and then you people would have said what a terrible deal what a terrible thing to do you know you have to be prepared to walk. all our correspondent in the annoy evangelos. what became

a fleeting second day off the summit. 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 the reason behind that was because the leader of north korea actually wanted the sanctions of the united nations such as unappealing getting and tiredly lifted until there was a bout of sanctions when the various third summit was basically they wanted these sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that. they were willing to do you knew go largely portion of the areas that we wanted but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for the. divide he could not give up entirely 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 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 of the u.n. sanctions that he didn't agree with now didn't decide on what's going to happen on the korean peninsula whether they're going to dismantle all 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 the how what they have to see the outcome of this deal because if anyone has to lose it's pretty much them to. let stand one noir speak to. hugh's on the program we spoke what twenty four hours ago or so there was optimism of a deal but doesn't trump blames the mom's over sanctions but are there possibly

other reasons here. well absolutely because these are demands that are not the first time being presented to the united states this is exactly what i think anybody would have thought that kim jong un would ask the united states after over fifty years of sanctions being put on north korea and it crippling the infrastructure of north korea right now so this is not this is not unexplainable or to think that this is what north korea will. what i think what we have to look at what happened in the twenty four hour period following the dinner last night in the talks today you know yes president trump does say that you need to walk away and yes he did want a full day nuclearization of the north korean plants but just prior to going in he put out a very optimistic tweet that i don't think is getting enough focus he talked about that he needed the help of china south korea japan and russia in order to make north korea successful financially and i think you can also say that

would be for security purposes as well i think president trump realized in order to accomplish a true honest north korea did nuclearization he was going to have to have the help of those that surrounded the country how much did he need to win here scott because he got progress with north korea there's a self triggered state of emergency. is the in both of us present and likely to get when he gets back on american soil. well i think the scrutiny started even before he stepped on the stage as the media was moved from a five hour press holding area to literally two hours which signaled something had happened that had cut this short and it was not planned obviously scrutiny for president right now is that the highest peak probably yet of his administration with michael cohen giving a very intriguing testimony in front of congress in the last twenty four hours but the president definitely needed this win on the backs of the government shutdown that did not necessarily work for him for getting his full funding as well as the

controversy over the declaration of an emergency so the president needed to when he could have had one which is what a lot of people are questioning why he did not fight harder to have the actual end of the korean war happen as well that would have been just a very simple thing he could have touted for some reason did not even approach that even in his comments following in his press conference is there a glimmer of light here though. we did hear mr trump stress the warmth in relations with the. kim despite the lack of any agreement could a potential third summit make any headway from what you've seen there. but i think this is why a couple people are scratching their heads because it was where both parties walked away from the table or president walked away from the table you would not expect them to be saying such a praises about kim jong il you would actually like any adversary would have expected a little bit more confrontational what i think the positive in all of this is now

that president has recognized the power of those around north korea that the next time they meet i bet that it's not going to be just between north korea in the united states i think it's going to be a bigger picture something that is probably needed to happen from the very beginning and president trump is realizing this interesting stuff host of news views. now live from noise thank you very much. transparency group very exposed what it claims is a series of tools used by facebook to target politically conservative pages and restrict their content without warning they include hate speech limiting the live streams on suppressing the reach of those personalities a process known. as the whistleblower behind the claims. 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 but what exactly did this former facebook employee find or correspond nicky are enjoying me more in the studio earlier the what has been revealed here well 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 some unusual goings on with some accounts first i was wondering whether this is something that. 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 but that's what your point is that there's a lot of stuff being said on the left that is not involved in these posts it's not essentially what you see it's all one sided exactly and facebook is targeting certain posts that doesn't particularly like with terms such as offensive in haste these terms are 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 a 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 it is a whistle blower 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 there were certain uses. exactly so uses one seeing what these are 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 to resist implication free speech when a year ago he would 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 facebook is slumping don is that it's bound british anti islamic activist tony robinson from the platform also instagram as well. when ideas and opinions 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. 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 while his bomb tony robinson fired up his supporters online complaining the move is a politically motivated step to censor free speech praised the bond for targeting hate speech social media companies have been stepping up efforts to block content that's deemed offensive but there's wide disagreement over just what point to online policing becomes censorship it's very clear that if you use 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 one two you don't tarnish you know. legitimize the you know the 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 him 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 with 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 about a community if you tarnish a whole community if you are the k. 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. where it's good for anything it's good for challenging and dealing 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 send the ship is always so dangerous. back with more news in ninety seconds. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to the press this is what the four korean people. interested in the water. pressure.

for to return to the unrestrained nuclear competition of the cold war. was the plea made by the u.n. secretary general earlier this week with the u.s. pulling out of the i.n.f. treaty and russia rolling out new nuclear weaponry should we be more worried about the weapons themselves the people who have the codes. ok let's get the latest on of a big story we've been following for quite some time venice deepening political crisis will see the u.n. security council convene in was just a couple of hours or so from now believed to vote on rival resolutions coming from

russia and also the u.s. washington has spent more than a month leading efforts to president maduro in favor of opposition leader one who declared himself to be venezuela's interim president so let's get more now on what is expected at the u.n. with our correspondent. do we know much about the differences between the resolutions. union hello well we are expecting another tough encounter at the u.n. security council well when you look at u.n. security council resolution drafts the vital thing to understand is what's in the quare what the priorities are and the russian one it is the sovereignty and independence of it as well and also the condemnation of outside interference let's have a look at what else is in that draft expressing concern over the threats

to use force against the territorial integrity and political independence of the boulevard in republican venezuela. besides this moscow wants everything to be decided within the u.n. framework it also calls actually it once the un security council to call for peaceful talks involving all sides under the venezuelan constitution and moscow is already saying that it will block the american rival revolution they've called it a mix of demagoguery accusatory rhetoric and all to mesdames now if you look at the american resolution it's pillars are early and fair democratic elections and also an immediate green light for the humanitarian aid deliveries however the venezuelan leadership believes that the only reason why washington is trying to squeeze in this humanitarian aid is to find

a pretext for military intervention the door government also says that they are trying to possibly sneak in some sort of equipment or other stuff that may fuel violent unrest and the country however the even as well the government says they are happy to get humanitarian aid from the red cross or the now these concerned that i mentioned earlier are shared by moscow as i've said security council and it looks like we're headed for another stalemate because the russians will be vetoing the american resolution the same thing is almost certainly going to happen vice versa yes thanks for taking us through all votes r.t. correspondent elizabeth cohen. a major french sporting goods retailer has dropped plans to sell a sports version of the he job in fronts to catalogue said it had hoped to build on

the successful sales the garment generated in morocco short of 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 kept on 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 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. 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 there 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 the castle say such items make it easier for muslim women to take part in activities such as sports interest emotional screwed if i may blow them up even should be able to wear whatever they like for between the sale this clothes is just ridiculous first to make shocked me and then 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 anti slavic. people should dress according to their own tastes i don't think there's much controversy about this issue with pick you 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 staff say they have been threatened. 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 and sometimes physically before the product even caught out of the starting blocks the force of the opposition saw the capital back down no longer selling a sports teacher up here but it's a no win situation for the retailer which is also being criticized by pandering to collective hysteria that reveals the level of islamophobia kid in france so that you can ski auti paris is a new cold war heating up and. be stopped oksana is asking those on more questions next on worlds apart as they will.

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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 deeply 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 of war it's not about the nukes than about the people who 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 goods here is the un secretary general and many other high ranking europeans who seem to be quite concerned about moscow and washington split tonsil 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 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 of 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 of policymakers political polarization all of that according

to some russian thinkers at least increases their risk of misunderstanding brinkmanship do you disagree with dop. 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.