dueling drafts both the russian and u.s. resolutions on venezuela failed the un security council with the two nations vetoing each other's proposals further deepening the stalemate over the latin american country. second to trumpet kim. with no deal in a stall over sanctions of pyongyang says washington missed a rare chance to make progress over denuclearizing between them and its. facebook is accused of censoring conservative voices as a whistleblower reveals how the social network suppresses content and exposure. 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. or broadcasting lines i read forster's moscow this is our team international and john thomas if you. are tensions have been high in the un security council with both russia and the us bringing forward draft resolutions on the venezuela crisis however both proposals failed to pass r t correspondent trinity has more. they can use them with ashley the we have finally arrived at the us double sanders show in venezuela a month ago and the day before the security council meeting it became absolutely clear that the majority of countries in the western hemisphere irrespective of their political affiliations are advocating for the resolution to the problems in venezuela by venezuelan people themselves on the basis of dialogue the time for

a peaceful transition to democracy now. each member of the international community that joins in recognizing the government is supporting the people of venezuela as they strive claim their democracy both the russian and the u.s. resolutions didn't pass the voting in the un security council the russian one got less votes in favor that against four in favor and seven against the us draft was vetoed by russia and china the russian ambassador said that if the u.s. resolution had passed it would be the first case in history that the united nations security council to posed a legitimate leader and imposed another one to a sovereign country the venezuelan representatives spoke as well calling to stop interfering in the matters of his country they are planning a plan this time the peroration against it it's whatever right out of the same kind of took it out of force at the same time they are just feeding out of money this is something outrageous indeed so i want your. full time for you to know that there

are institutions in this what are working besides the presidency we have the supremes court and the supreme court is dealing with this mother and they are going to announce their decision in due time i cannot speak for them i believe you would see a very considerable reaction around the world if they detain or otherwise harm. interim president why don't i hope that's enough of a restraint on their conduct so the diplomatic community in the crossroads again the u.n. as thieves members who spoke after the voting called it to all of their colleagues to put their differences aside to resolve the venezuelan crisis reporting in new york treated each other as r.t. . there were high hopes in a noisy but both donald trump and kim jong un have come away empty handed from their much anticipated second summit the talks ended earlier than expected with the u.s. president blaming it 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. took the first summit was a great speech say some of the just one hopefully will be equal or greater than the first or you could have heard that let's say for the. humor. you'll feel you'll join us in this.

i'm going to be the best and. always have to be prepared to walk i could have signed an agreement today and then you people would have said oh what a terrible deal what a terrible thing to do 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 and do it fast. well the north korean foreign ministry has since issued a statement claiming they did not ask for all sanctions to be lifted just most of them they also said washington had a still rare chance reiterating that their position on demonisation will not change in a reporter in hanoi sums up the second today of something three going to which of the talks were cut short because no agreement was made the two were actually supposed

to have lunch and have a signing ceremony which never happened bill the reason behind that was because. the leader of north korea actually wanted the sanctions on pyongyang lifted. what we propose was not the removal of all sanctions but their partial removal this proposal is the biggest equalization measure we can take at the present stage in relation to the current level of confidence between the d.p. r. k. and the united states our principles remain invariable and our proposal will never be changed even though the united states proposed for the negotiations in the future 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 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 you also repeatedly repeatedly saying that the whole deal was made because 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 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 it 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. jenny town a managing editor of north korea focused web journal thirty eight north thinks both parties are expected to achieve more. this sentiment going into this i

mean it made it seem that they were much closer to a deal then what came out of this summit and it seems that we're still pretty far away from having common ground on the issue of sanctions and which is that the koreans that we would want the north koreans to dismantle as a first step the u.s. has not had a great track record of of it here in two months and that our accords especially under this administration by even predating this administration and there is mutual skepticism it's not just you know a lot of americans don't believe the north koreans are serious then of course the north koreans have an experience of the u.s. also not hearing to agreements although the second meeting between donald trump and kim jong un ended without any agreement on denuclearization it seems there was some good news elsewhere according to the u.s. president one hundred percent of the territory that was held by islamic state in

syria has finally been liberated we just took over you know you kept hearing it was ninety percent ninety two percent the caliphate in syria now it's one hundred percent we just took over one hundred percent caliphate that means the area of the land we just have one hundred percent so that's good we made the statement on his way on his way home from the summit during our refusing stop in alaska there are currently two thousand american troops in syria in december trump announced there would be a full withdrawal of u.s. forces by spring however later in february washington said it would maintain a peace keeping group of two hundred soldiers in the country former pentagon policy analyst michael maloof believes the timing of the announcement wasn't coincidental . trump is going trying to show success. he and that i think was one of the considerations in the discussions in in

vietnam war over over north korean missiles the reality is is that trump is looking to make a deal and to show international success and to so that he can have something to come back to and to offset the turmoil the inter political turmoil he's facing back home but if we've taken over isis in syria then the question remains what about the troops u.s. troops who are there in syria what will happen with them those are questions that remain unanswered. the transparency group of projects very tough has 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 classifying posts as hate speech limiting the live streams and suppressing the reach of posts a process known as the boosting here is the whistleblower behind the claims 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 but what exactly did the former facebook employee find you know neil got more on that from our correspondent macaire. 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 department 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 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 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 and 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 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 us

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 brought out is has been verified that this is happening on the conservative side of things but we know well it wouldn't be surprising because it's 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 employee staff appearing to admit to silencing conservatives they were saying how they used the algorithms to bury particular tweet he was interviewing the worst of them were 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. 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 and they put a lot into social media so this is why it's becoming a huge issue we're not going to hear the end of this for some time indeed the power of social media. the u.k. is not getting any help from across the channel on a proposal to delay budget more on that. interest. for to return to the unrestrained nuclear competition of the cold war was the

pretty maid by the u.n. secretary general 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 and. the people who have the codes. to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to be close this is what i'm up for three of them all can't be good. interested in the waters in the. first six.

this is already international and me hopes in britain that it might postpone leaving the e.u. have had a hurdle across the english channel the french president is valid to block britain from delaying its departure unless there is a clear objective based on a new choice the braggs a date is just a few weeks away on march twenty ninth. in order to deal in these three g. the withdrawal agreement cannot be renegotiated that the british need more time who will be able to examine an extension request if that is justified by new choices from the british but we cannot in any case accept an extension without a clear perspective from the pursued objective as our negotiator michel barnier said we don't need time above all when the decisions the time has come for the

british to make choices and to offer us what we owe each other as partners friends and allies namely a clear vision a joint project for the future. for britain to extend of the withdrawal process known as article fifty e.u. members most unanimously agreed to do it and the french president is not the only one whose patience is wearing thin spanish prime minister echoed emanuel mcraney saying that prolonging uncertainty by postponing deadlines is neither a reasonable nor desirable alternative the german chancellor was more conciliatory of those saying the e.u. won't say no if britain needs more time despite having more than two years to get a plan in place for britain's future relationship with the e.u. parliament has failed to agree on a plan prime minister theresa may is struggling to get her deal passed m.p.'s having lost a series of votes if it fails again on march twelfth she will give m.p.'s the chance to decide on whether to crash out of the e.u. with no deal or seek to delay the leaving date brussels based journalist told us

what he thinks micron wants from britain even if they were to reduce work as romulans as it looks. well based on a new choice he says you know europeans for one audience agreement on this and they are right in a way bush about us that you know we don't need time we need decisions so the brits should decide they have negotiated for two years they have a deal it is a bit wishy washy the remain as in britain don't like it the prick cities don't like it so mrs may tries to sell it to our parliament in westminster already for some time and she can't and she comes back to brussels to renegotiate but the europeans say no thank you you have a real reason for renegotiating or for asking three more months no reason so march twenty ninth should be the right date and if they leave without a deal they don't need to pay the forty five billion euro that europe asks them to

pay so it would not be such a bad deal to go. in major french. goods retailer has dropped plans to sell a sports version of the key job in france to catalog and said it had hoped to build on the successful sales of the garment generated in morocco 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 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. hearts is a secular country with a hit job as well as the christian cross have been banished from state classrooms and also from government offices no religious symbols outlawed and in fact there were a common sight on the streets of france but many argue that face and body covering garments such as those worn by loosely women are seen as being a method to subjugate them but others including castle say such items make it easier for muslim women to take part in activities such as sports is just emotional screwed if i'm a player even should be able to wear whatever they like forbidden to seal this clothes is just ridiculous 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 play pool with pick you choose 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 product even caught out of the starting blocks the force of the opposition soared to capital back down it would no longer sell the sports he job here but it's a no win situation for the retailer which is also being criticized for pandering to collective hysteria that reveals the level of islamophobia kid in france show that

people ski altie paris writer and online activists are money qatar bay and patricia sharknado from the french national rally party had this to 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 different options available for different types of women that's the whole point is that especially in industries like fashion actually take up some fully supported and decision to quit the job on the sport he chat on the french market in this it was only after there was a huge public outcry. that state crawled back so you know basically don't has no scruples can become noisy capitalists company they only want to make profits and they weren't forced they were forced to take the accept over their

shows here in france because of the huge pressure from the public. doesn't from we'll be back in about thirty six minutes with full of your news your watching our two international students. what do you do before you came here where did you work before you came here when you lived well death row in many us states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor the death penalty there are some people that because of what they do have given up the right to live among us somebody even proven innocent dr 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.

what we really need is someone from the outside use if. we had somebody could we also because. series they lost. a few dollars a day could not interleave you didn't because of the palestinian. going to am going to it was going to it was welcome to the alex salmond show and to the last n.r.c. to suppress it from a european perspective that's why we spoke into the break to cheers in brussels and

then to the euro enthusiastic this week confusion reigns he yet again at westminster everything seems to be changing but if anything at chile happening the whole game board has been temped up with the fact mentation of the major parties to this i'm a signals ruling i to know if your brakes it to stave off more cabinet resignations corben springs to a people's court to stave off more party resignations but does any of this big actually alter the heart of the fanatic of the brics numbers in the house of commons. this week we turn to the view from europe's most powerful nation of germany and to the most senior m.e.p. and they get a peon parliament christian democrat politician elmar brok is the longest serving member in the european parliament and among his many achievements he contributed crucially to the development of the european constitution how does he believe it will play at then we focus on scotland's draw in the new european firmament one of

the most popular columns in the euro press is it just about column in the presses express normally james wilson specializes on eastern europe but today we ask him to cast his eye over the future of his homeland of scotland but first to alex with your tweets your messages and e-mails from quite a lot of reaction to you from brussels on what other europeans think of blakeson huddled three years not impressed who kill sport european countries think of us they have the slight talent for centuries and it continues so why hand over the country to their control were not all stupid well handled the thought part of the second was hummel god winston king of england took one in the eye from the normans and ten sixty six then of course harald was half of the english tricky thing these european connections. the dog troop says the a lame in the westminster politics equals let's have another go at getting rid of carbon that's what it's a boat or christina anderson says simply i am in despair i can't believe we're

leaving the european union i'm just black makes a scottish point says the old alliance was before the union of the clones but scots law didn't mab's in the u.k. why is the so much talk and so little action us and governments and says scotland has a choice to leave the u.k. and to tom to the pin union or have a mother or talent of to choose from but wendy gramm gordon says of all these people micromanaging own lives how is that things of console wrong and so see all of us when the l r block has been a leading politician in the parliament for the best part of forty years a two time chair of the foreign affairs committee no one knows more about the development of the institution i know it is better placed to assess the impact of cricket. elmar brok welcome to the alex salmond show hello thank you for inviting me and we brought you europe's most experienced parliamentarian in that one career

of almost forty years to do you ever think you would see the point at which a major state was on the brink of leaving the european union no as is a big surprise for me. good personal relationships american century i was with her and seventy five from the demonstration in london in that referendum of that time and never believed that britain. have no interest in its own interests anymore and therefore i do not understand that this most practical nation's averts is going into an ideological affair and that britain has gone from leading european to the single market in the one nine hundred eighty s. to perhaps leaving the european union altogether is in your opinion down to developments in british politics and british society or is it something to do with the developments in the european union as well as i think britain has under signed

and ratified all developments in competence of european union the internal market was infect party invention of the british politics of british politicians and supported by margaret cetera i think this is a big change in british policy in this society as part of. globalization and the question of. different opinions in different parts of society from blue collar workers to small and business people that is i think a development we have in many places but only britain is has taken over the power and from what you're reading off the reason males deal the did with michelle bonnie do you in your estimation think that is a good deal for europe and a good deal for britain all can you understand the skepticism in both places that might not be as good a deal is staying in the unit pinion of things.