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this is. the second summit abruptly with no deal reached as neither side could find common ground. on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. facebook is accused of censoring conservative voices as a whistleblower reveals how the social network suppresses content and limits exposure. in the course of doing my duties i noticed other things that were going on accounts i would see it appear in several different conservative pages. and french sporting goods retailer kathlyn is forced to draw plans to sell a sports version of play in france received violent threats we got reaction in
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paris so she was too worried you know it's a charge against. me and that they have to cancel the sound so it's not an act of secularism and that i will not go so far as to say. that it's very. it's eight o'clock here in moscow and you're watching all t international live from our studio with me. welcome to the program. there were high hopes in hanoi but both donald trump and kim jong un have come away empty handed from the much anticipated second summit the tolls ended earlier than expected with the u.s. president blaming north korea's demands 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.
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signed an agreement today and then you people would have said oh what a terrible deal what a terrible thing he did you know 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 than do it fast. our correspondent in hanoi sums up 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 knew go large portion of the areas that we wanted but
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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 and 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 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
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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. says times should have known 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 so 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 president does say that you need to walk away and yes he did want a nation of the north korean points 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
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order to make north korea successful 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. in secret project times has exposed what it claims is a series of tools used by facebook to target politically conservative pages and restrict that content without warning they include class and pose as hate speech limiting live streams and suppressing the reach of a process known as dbu stick his the whistleblower behind the. 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
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former facebook employee find got more a lot from correspondent. 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 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 that. i had you know 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.
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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 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 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 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
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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 were going to didn't they after the twenty sixth election so it's conflicting kind of comments from mark zuckerberg it seems 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 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
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what you brought out is has been verified that this is happening on the conservative side of things but we know while it wouldn't be surprising this is not the first time a 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 he said. 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 it's. 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 twenty
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a simple occasionally years at least twenty 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 eighteen year olds and they put a lot into social medias and 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 clamping down is that it's been the pritish anti islamic activists tell me about this and from the platform and 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
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robinson's band fired up his supporters online complaining the move is a politically motivated step to censor free speech others praise the plant the targeting hate speech social media companies have been stepping up efforts to block content that's deemed offensive but there's wide disagreement over what point online pilot 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 but major corporations like facebook like instagram have the power to remove opinions from public
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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 of 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 or should we do 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
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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 charlie. 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 and they are stories ahead
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of why mixing religion and sports where is dividing people in france. 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. warren buffett you know these doing the stock buybacks which is you know used to be illegal so recently that's completely fraudulent and yes no governance or oversight
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whatsoever you know he's a more than one 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 shareholders which is. back to the program and this one is the political crisis will see the u.n. security council convened today to vote on rival resolutions from russia and the us washington has spent more than a month leading efforts to oust president in favor of opposition. who declared himself to be interim president. explains what's up for debate in new york
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when we look at un 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 un causa to sion in 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
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americans are suggesting the pillars of the u.s. resolution draft are early fair and democratic elections and as well and also an immediate green light for american humanitarian aid deliveries however the even as well in 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 well 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 tough session at the u.n.
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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. and making french sporting goods retailer has dropped plans to sell a sports fan. and of the hit job in france the catalyst said i have to hope to build on the successful the garment generated in morocco show into penske 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 on 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. sport emancipates it does not submit my choice as
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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. 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 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 issues dimensional screwed if. we win should be able to wear whatever they like for
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between the sale disclosed is just ridiculous shocks me if they have to cancel the sales it's not an act of secularism i will not go so far as to say some of phobic but it's very and to slavic. 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 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 courts out of the starting blocks the force of the opposition sort the capitol back down it would no longer sell a sports teacher up here but it's a no win situation for the retailer which is also being criticized for pandering to
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collective hysteria that reveals the level of islamophobia here in france so that people skate altie harris. disgraced former lawyer michael cohen testified before congress on wednesday and 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 cohen himself pulled no punches and speaking about his old boss. today i am here to told 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
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credible he's a fake witness its presence here is a travesty and you have a history of lying over and over and over again that we were in charge of the truth i don't believe that michael. well when you're capable of telling the truth he lied to congress through false statements in a written statement he lied to congress through testimony. fired his false statements by releasing him refuting his lies to the public with. cohen who was a trauma confidant for more than a decade after his moment in the spotlight he'll begin a three year prison sentence in the spring for tax and battle for it as well as lying to congress we discussed his testimony with former u.s. republican congressman michael patrick phonics. as we call it in the united states when election season comes here we call it the silly season and in the silly season silly things happen this is
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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 could 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. and i'll be back in around thirty minutes time
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with move things but in the meantime stay tuned for watching the home. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next that the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not the. or else in the sink i was going to go.
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by the way ways of the fly here. i do think the numbers mean something they've matter to us with over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent world market most thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overrule. the only number you need remember one one business showed you know board the mid one and only boom books. before you came here where did you work before you came here when you live well. in
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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 the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up their rights as live among us somebody even proven innocent enough to years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. or. oh my dough sixteen level i'm not going to sit in the no new. job. isis fighters and the now building a philippine naval ship. but
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making headlines recently over their misadventures involving sex trafficking in law enforcement we hear and watching the hawks found another story buried in the headlines there is just a shocking but lacks the star power to push it to the top of your newsfeeds it's a little known reports surfacing in hawaii that is the foot in the doorway of a much bigger less talked about problem in the horrific and tragic world of sex trafficking the report is titled sex trafficking and why the stories of survivors and it details and it features details testimony from many of hawaii's victims of this heinous industry including and rather disturbingly finding out that law enforcement officials throughout the criminal justice system have not been effective in addressing the crimes of sex trafficking and have been complicit in allowing and participating in sex trafficking one anonymous vick. them interviewed for the report actually stated quote the same people that are charging you for prostitution are the people turning around and buying it from you. and tragically
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my friends this isn't just a problem isolated to the beautiful islands of hawaii no no no no no no in fact it's only recently in the last few years that states like hawaii alaska and michigan saw legislation coming down the pipe that actually outlaws police from gaging and sex acts with victims of trafficking during the course of their investigation because apparently our fine friends in blue needed a law to tell them that sleeping with victims you should be saving was a bad thing but i guess when according to the a.c.l.u. more than half of the states in the united states of america allow police to use consent as a defense when charged with raping a person they had in custody is that really such a surprise now let's start watching the hawks. thirty. three.
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