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not an act of secularism and that i will not go so far as to say. that it's very. seven pm here in moscow this thursday february twentieth a warm welcome to our to international i mean in. our top story where our high hopes and annoy but both donald trump and kim jong have come away empty handed from their much anticipated second summit the talks ending expected with the u.s. president blaming north korea's demands over lifting sanctions for the failure to cut a deal well it came as a surprise to many after the optimism shown by both leaders should be for the talks .

it was 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 it would save you that it was a good. deal for the you'll join us in this. but i'm going to be the best as. always have to be prepared to walk i could've signed an agreement today and then you people would have said oh what a terrible deal what a terrible thing to do now you have to be prepared to walk we actually had papers

ready to be side but it just wasn't appropriate i want to do it right i'd much rather do it right and do it fast. what became a fleeting second day of 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 on pyongyang and tiredly lifted 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 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 get in as you all to repeal the repeated seeing that the whole deal was made because of the of the u.n. sanctions that he didn't agree with now that in this 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 and 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 get our team erica scobee nalut hughes who's also in hanoi safe trump shut up knowing what was coming

. these are demands that are not the first time being presented to the united states this is exactly what i think if 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 if this is not this is not unexplainable or to think that this is what north korea would want 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 the president does say that you need to walk away and yes he did want a nation 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 to help china south korea japan and russia in order to make north korea financially and i think you can also say that would be for security purposes as well and 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. moving on to another all of the day's headlines transparency group project is exposed one of the claims is a series of tools used to target politically conservative pages and restrict their content without warning the include posters hate speech limiting live streams and suppressing the reach of post a process known think is 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 the former facebook employee or correspondent join me in the studio earlier for.

what has been revealed here all this whistleblower is alleging to have uncovered four she described as methods of suppression being used by facebook tolls that would de 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. 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 is that there's a lot of stuff being said on the left that is not involved in these posts it's essentially what you see it's all one sided exactly and facebook is targeting certain posts that doesn't 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 had was conflicting kind of comments from mark zuckerberg. 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. 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 you've 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 social media giant has been ousted by project veritas as well last year we had the allegations with twitter when project veritas released

undercover first to twitter employees staff apparent to admit to silencing conservatives they were saying how they used the algorithms to bury particular tweet. exactly so users weren't 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 to resist implication with me years ago he would have been that important because it didn't have so much import in the lives of young people there are millions of people becoming voters sixteen year olds 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 a facebook is clamping down on his that it's by a british anti islamic activist told me robinson from the platform 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 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 and tommy thompson so it was always the night such claims the brothers fired up a supporters to online complaining the move is a politically motivated step to censor free speech others praise the bomb for targeting hate speech social media companies have been stepping up efforts to block

content that's deemed offensive but there's wide disagreement at what point on line policing becomes censorship it's very clear that if you just joined the social media giant company pages and he 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 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 ability 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 the 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 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 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 challenging and beaming 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 censorship is always so dangerous. time for the a short break some more news and moments.

put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so if you want to be president and should. have to write to the press this is what i'm up for. can't be good. i'm interested in the waters of. the world for to return to the unrestrained competition of the cold war. was the plea made by the u.n. secretary general early in 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 we start back with another big story of the day venezuela's deepening political crisis we'll see the u.n. security council convene in the next hour or so it's expected shortly to vote on rival resolutions from russia and the u.s. washington has spent more than a month leading efforts to ice president maduro in favor of opposition leader. who declared himself to be venice will as interim president explains what's up for debate in new york. when we look at u.n. security council resolutions it's important to understand what's in the core what the key priorities are and for the russian one it is the independence and sovereignty of venezuela and also the condemnation of outside interference now

we're ready to give you an exact quote from the russian resolution draft expressing concern over the threats to use force against the territorial integrity and political independence of the boulevard in republican venezuela reiterating the need to fully respect the principles of humanity neutrality and polish honesty and independence for the provision of international assistance besides moscow wants everything to be decided within the u.n. framework it is calling and it wants the u.n. security council to call for peaceful talks involving all sides under the u.n. constitution and moscow is also saying that they will definitely block the american resolution draft which they are calling a mix of demagogue accusatory rhetoric and ultimatums now if you look at what the americans are suggesting the pillars of the u.s. resolution draft are early fair and democratic elections and been as well and also

an immediate green light for american humanitarian aid deliveries however the even as well and the leadership is saying that they believe the only reason why the americans are trying to squeeze in there is to find a pretext for a military intervention and they're also worried that apart from the humanitarian aid the americans are trying to sneak in some sort of equipment or possibly even weapons to fuel violent unrest in the country these kind of concerns are being shared by moscow while caracas though is ready to accept humanitarian aid they're saying from the red cross and the you as well it looks like we are heading for another two. session at the u.n. security council and another deadlock when the american side will be vetoing the russian resolution and the same is almost certainly going to happen vice versa.

a major french sporting goods retailer has dropped plans to sell a sports version of the he job in france to kathlyn said it had hoped to build on the successful sale of the garment generated in morocco charlotte dubinsky explains why be 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 catch on to stop a sports station off a hit job a muslim headscarf. as well as that poor ring of twitter outrage several politicians have called for boycott of to cast. 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. 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. even should be able to wear whatever they like forbidden the seal disclosed is just ridiculous 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 anti slum ik.

people should dress according to their own tastes i don't think there's much controversy about this issue with pick. and choose to merit a masters practiced so if she was 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 threatening. our customer service team has received over five hundred calls and emails seen 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 sort the capital back down it will no longer sell a sports teacher up here but it's a no win situation for the retailer which is also being criticised for pandering to collectively styria that reveals the level of islamophobia here in france.

ski auti paris. to washington where donald trump's disgraced former lawyer michael cohen testified before congress on wednesday failed to provide any evidence of collusion between the president and russia he didn't get the warmest of welcomes at the hearing with congress members accusing him of being a liar while calling himself told no punches when speaking about his old 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. ladies and gentlemen how on earth is this witness credible he's a fake witness and 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 difference he lied to congress through false statements in a written statement he lied to congress through his testimony even amplified his false statements by releasing him refuting his lies to the public with. just expounding on what was said there cohen was a trauma confidant for more than a decade after his moment in the spotlight he will 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 to the state of new york to spar they pulled 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. our documentary crisis childhood a sobering look at filipino children being sold for a job hobby purposes starts in moments this is art international.

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