the way ways of. headlining this donald trump posts are meeting in washington with the president of brazil and pledges to dial up the pressure on venezuela's government. must be held accountable for drone attacks conducted by the us from an army base on its territory. the leader of kazakhstan resigns in a shock announcement after nearly thirty years in power. varying priorities was facebook too slow to stop the spread of footage of friday's shooting at mosques in christchurch but too swift to secretly silence accounts of political views unsavory . i put certain stories about certain political issues in shadow so. what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things can ban this

kind of stuff that's only going to catch a wave shadow. there and thanks for choosing r.t. international for your world news this hour on calling brainwashed to where it's now midnight it's five pm in washington d.c. that's where we're starting this hour president donald trump welcomed his brazilian counterpart also naro to the white house for wide ranging talks on tuesday with details his r.t. america's. trump and maddow did focus a lot of their meeting on venezuela talking about the importance of them working together in order to bring down a president who are on power now it's important to note that brazil was one of the first country after the u.s. to your knowledge. claim president as the only legitimate leader of men in. well

now when it turns out what's the matter we're talking about focusing on their meeting on venezuela he did mention cuba and this is what he had to say we call on members of the venezuelan military to end their support for madeira. who is really nothing more than a cuban puppet and finally set their people free trump also said that the u.s. has yet to impose the toughest sanctions on venezuela but he again reiterated that all options remain on the table and earlier before the meeting at trump when asked about possible military intervention this is what he said every options on the table with respect to venezuela and you would like to get involved. sort of you know we haven't even discussed it we're going to discuss it today they said that they don't want to give away the strategy but again has repeated that the use of military force continues to be on the table the western powers claim the

economic troubles in venezuela down to corruption and mismanagement but two journalists who spent a month shooting a documentary in caracas last year claim the situation is not as desperate as it's made out to be for the last hour they told me that there was a lack of poverty that's despite the fact that the u.n. put the poverty rate at the time at almost ninety percent. it was you see when i. started my that at best it's nice to have that and you know it may take some of the metals. into letting you know things. before that you're. just but just looked out of the neck and actually when i arrived in caracas before before actually as it sort of take a few steps back before i went to venice where there are a lot of people i know in the journalist community is there well actually you know and maybe you should take

a parcel going to venezuela you know the crime rates around us the economic and social situation is appalling not to mention the political situation and actually when i arrived i mean life was still bustling in caracas something people were still going to jobs people were still continuing with lives people going to find it hard to believe at the u.n. so a three point four million but as wayland have fled to the country three point four million people don't leave a country if everything's ok or at least manageable well this is interesting i wonder where these figures come because according to the government. people that shooting last year seven percent of. you know school. during that particular mission it went five to seven percent. so also a hundred twenty thousand. actually settle last year in minnesota big hyperinflation it concentrates on those things but. things like

sheep like they electricity bills water bills other things it was a rounded picture of this because you spent a month in venezuela more recently than the probably most of our audience did and let's face it you work in the news business you know that pictures of suffering sells more than than anything else. even in troubled countries life has a spectrum so allan give us a fuller picture then life in venezuela tough as it is how is it really. as you said it is tough i mean it is hard i would say yes i mean this is a moment of us but i would say definitely the government has made mistakes but i would also say the u.s. sanctions and the definitely sort of feel you know the effect of u.s. sanctions in the sense of lack of us dollars the lack of being able to use your us from actual instruments and i mean i would say that people here do. you know you have the society functions if that makes any sense caesar said before on

a much less of scale than probably before well going back to president both on our roads first official visit if we can chose washington the brazilian leaders often being compared to his u.s. counterpart earning him the nickname trump of the tropics head of the talks the u.s. and brazil signed an agreement allowing washington to launch rockets and satellites from brazil should allow the u.s. to reduce fuel consumption by thirty percent for its launches but back home brazilian media is primary focus is not only u.s. business but on reports of the presidential family's alleged ties to violent gangs kind of mope and has more on the allegations against john bolton our own. parent lee he's facing a pretty big scandal back in brazil a scandal related to his family and their ties to right wing militia groups that have engaged in both murder and extortion now we saw earlier this month the arrest of two former police officers who have been charged with the killing of

councilwoman marielle franco she was assassinated they are charged with the killing now these individuals actually live on the same street that both in our lives in in rio where he is rio home is located and when the house was raided they discovered one hundred seventeen automatic rifles and. home as well as computers containing a whole lot a large amount of intelligence and surveillance of left wing activists left wing journalist as well as left wing political leaders now right wing militias and the terrorist activities they've engaged in have long been a scourge on brazil let's review some of what the country has faced.

now in addition to that there was a scandal in january when five members of a right wing gang were arrested and it turned out that the mother and wife of the leader of that gang was employed by the president's son flavio in addition to that other president and his son were seen posing at a birthday party with members of the gang and flavio awarded a medal of honor

a brazilian medal of honor on to one of the gangs leaders now in two thousand and eleven a judge was brutally murdered and prior to the murder which many suspected was the work of these kind of right wing militia operations many says noted that they're both flavio the son of valsin are. valsin r.-o. made statements basically saying that this judge had to humiliate police officers and could have enemies and and it was it was quite harsh every evil outcomes in the hunt for security agents now a photograph has surfaced of bolsa naro posing for a picture with one of the suspects arrested for the murder of mariel franco the councilwoman now it's also been revealed that their homes are rather close to each other they are essentially neighbors however when confronted about it both in our own denied having any ties to this individual who is now being charged for the murder of an elected official the media has always criticised me they want to do

simplistically a connection but i've never thought of a gentleman in my gated community i don't read is going to have much time to you know you can gauge in social life with them it's important to know that this is actually both scenarios first international trip since he was elected president of brazil he is meeting today with u.s. president donald trump however earlier he met with the u.s. central intelligence agency the cia at a closed doors meeting with paulson r.-o. and in addition to that he spoke to the u.s. chamber of commerce and when he spoke to the u.s. chamber of commerce also naro remarks nowadays you have a president who is a friend of the united states and admires this beautiful country speaking glowingly of donald trump so people have their eyes on the white house where the two leaders the leader of brazil and leader of the united states are having their historic meeting. germany could be forced to shoulder legal blame for u.s. drone strikes launched from its territory after a court ruled but it must ensure international know is upheld the case of brought

forward by a group of yemenis who accuse germany of being complicit in deadly strikes ordered by washington from a base in southwest germany reporting from berlin he's done holkins. certainly a case that taken a few years to come through the courts and indeed it's a landmark decision in the german courts with the administrative court ruling that the german government does bear at least partial responsibility for ensuring that the use of its air base in southern germany in the city of ramstein by the united states air force complies with international law this case states will move back to twenty twelve to an incident when the three yemenis lost relatives in a u.s. drone strike in yemen five sell been lost his brother in law selim bin ali jobber who was a new mom alongside his brother walid who was a local police officer in a u.s. drone strike which was later described by the yemeni government as a mistake gave the sermon he addressed the killings conducted by al qaeda and

challenge them to present a religious authority that is willing to debate with him so he can demonstrate to the people that this behavior of al-qaeda is wrong he was taken out by the american strike unfortunately he was not killed by al-qaeda he was killed by an american missile mention the yemeni government later admitted that this was a case of collateral damage they met with the relatives even allegedly offering compensation to them on behalf of the united states which never publicly admitted that this case was a mistake this obviously wasn't enough for the bin job or family they took the case to court they sued the german government to make sure they bore their brunt of responsibility for the deaths of their relatives now at the time in twenty fifteen of course in cologne dismissed the case they said the german government had fulfilled its obligations and had every right to balance foreign and defense policy interests indeed at the time representatives from the german defense ministry said they didn't even know effectively what was going on at the base whether it was

being used to facilitate drone strikes in yemen the yemeni plaintiffs though viewed things very differently they said the german government did bear responsibility and it became apparent. and to us that the germans threw. on german soil were involved in these strikes and what had happened to my family and it is possible that my family would not have been the target of such strikes in the drenched on air base not provided such information. five years on this court in months the house rule that the airbase and this german government did play in fact a central role in facilitating the relay of flight data facilitating u.s. drone strikes in yemen the judges in the court has now ordered the government to conduct an investigation to look into whether any sorts of international warlords norms or clients were broken here and also question the government's narrative but that striking twenty twelve didn't reach any international laws look into the

plaintiff's complaints now the german government of course was one country that stopped arms shipments to saudi arabia in the wake of the given conflict saudi arabia of course being a key u.s. ally yet it has continued to allow the use of its base to facilitate in some way or rather the use of drone strikes in yemen and this is coming from its fair share of criticism from human rights advocates i think it is definitely constant contradiction that the german government is seeing there the arms sales to the saudis for the were in yemen have to be stopped in at the same time. do not intervene to stop the drone strikes on yemen via ramstein air base now this certainly has created a legal precedent the german government has said it will study the ruling and even though the court ruling didn't go far enough least in the view of the yemeni relatives here they were advocating for a complete ban on the facilitation of drone strikes from this space they do view

this as an important first step really into studying the legality framework the legal implications of the use of german soil and german air bases for potentially u.s. drone strikes. in the country view of a. french armed forces minister has attacked the trump of ministration for putting pressure on washington's nato allies to buy u.s. made weapons she serves the military blocs integrity should not be dictated by america's financial interests the alliance should be unconditional otherwise it's not to no lines. nato close it's called article five not article if thirty five while in the statement that you just heard the french defense minister was referring to us call him by an aircraft which is after thirty five now and the minister was expressing concern over u.s.

president donald trump quite as she said conditional approach towards nido and european allies she was speaking at the atlantic council where she's stressed that it is time that europe move away from full dependency on you as a weapon supplies and she also spoke on long term u.s. commitment to nato this is how the french minister slammed trump's idea of a needle solidarity. europe has a single most open markets. and i'm personally more concerned at the notion that the strengths of nato. might be made conditional on allies buying this or that equipment the french minister's words are highlighted by the recent spat between the u.s. and turkey and the us a blast at turkey's refusal to abandon its deal with russia

to buy russia's as four hundred air defense systems now it cooled one of the major stumbling blocks in the relations between the two countries but we're concerned about their purchase of the russian air defense system called b s four hundred that's a big problem you know it goes against our policy to have a nato allies such as turkey use an asse four hundred system part of the problem with that is that it is not in iraq robel with other nato systems we've also made it clear to turkey that we have very serious concerns with that stated plans to proceed with the acquisition of the russian four hundred missile defense system calling for europe to become more and more independent from us weapons supplies that is not something new just last year the french presence in one way and mccraw in the voice decades old idea to create really european army which would be independent from its

a partner on the other side of the atlantic but the us president donald trump harshly criticized that so idea he even called it insulting so it's really saying is that what's happening now is that some nato countries are willing to move away from being fully dependent on u.s. weapons supplies while washington is doing everything in its power to stop that from taking place. and it seems the french minister's comments are shared in neighboring germany which released its budget plan on tuesday revealing that it will be cutting back its nato spending by twenty twenty three former advisor to the french defense and interior ministries we spoke to police the e.u. needs to leave nato to become more independent i would ask the question are the european countries realizing at least that us are no more our allies that's a good thing and so i would say i am rather happy that trying has been elected because now all he says. more abruptly more.

brutal and vulgar our way there are real. policy of the us regarding europe and regarding france particularly my country unless we leave nato we cannot built we got we cannot go further in the construction of the european independence and european defense that's. the main point and i think the now is helping us in realizing this fact which is a pure fact. the first and only president of kazakstan nursultan nazarbayev has resigned after almost three decades in power roof an arsenal told us more about the unexpected announcement. another assault on those above has announced his resignation after twenty nine years in power while serving

his feet term as the country's president he had been in fact the first and only president of kazakstan since its independence from the soviet union in nineteen ninety so this is something really big for eighteen million people for sure enough that i'm a survivor has announced his resignation in a special televised address to the nation earlier on tuesday simply saying i have made the decision to end my duties as president so no one can say for sure what this seventy eighty year old prominent politician key political figure for his country and around the world actually in the region definitely was driven by but it's done in other during the start of. my status is the first president and leader of this nation i will remain the chairman of the security council which is vested with serious powers to determine the country's domestic and foreign policy i will continue as the chairman of the democratic people's priorities and as

a member of the constitutional council as such i remain with you as a citizen of this country as a person who loves my people and my country. according to the country's constitution speaker of the country senate of the upper chamber of the countries of palm and will act as the interim president until a new president is elected and as far as we know of base man is coming from the same party is not sold on as a by of an expert say that most likely he will continue the policy. leaving the post of president of kazakhstan it is a special day for eighteen million population of cars i starve chorus but i'm pretty sure that he will continue to play an important role in the country's political life and kazakhstan will continue playing for them for as a regional player after the collapse of communism kazakhstan was set up for the first time coached and became a sovereign state for the first. time in one thousand nine to and that period there were twenty five years ago that's a generation ago and we can now look forward to

a greater participation the younger educated generation a greater participation in politics and the way that because it's turned goes so therefore the new president will be confronted with that but of course at the back if you like at the back of the room will be. giving advice and so on and he will be saying we don't want any shocks we don't want any rapid changes let's have gradual change but let's control change. facebook is facing sharp criticism for failing to prevent the live streaming of friday's mosque shootings in new zealand and the subsequent circulation of that footage the prime minister says social media sites need to do far more to tackle the spread of extremist content i would call on our social media platforms of all variety to demonstrate the kind of responsibility that both lead to these have been and that includes stars who perpetuate their messages in the aftermath there is a lot of work that needs to be done. for around seventeen minutes the gunman

lifestream to the massacre which are fifty people dead on facebook shortly after the video appeared on other social media sites as well the platforms did try to block the content but reportedly it could still easily be found hours after the atrocity. in the first twenty four hours we removed one point five million videos of the attack globally of which over one point two million were blocked we continue to work around the clock to remove violating contents using a combination of technology and people lose no we are working vigilantly to remove any violent footage. facebook says it was only notified about what had happened twelve minutes after the live stream ended police in new zealand of warn people that spreading the video is punishable by imprisonment we put two lawyers had to had to ask how social media giant should address the challenges posed by their technologies. i respectfully submit that when you show violence against human beings it's a form of pornography we have to as

a society say no facebook you can do much better for kids for people who would see this not necessarily because it would inspire the next shooting which is very well good because these losers need some form of acclimation out of just human decency without bringing in the government as laws and penalties and we're hearing from officials government officials from the prime minister in new zealand talking about preventing future attacks like this and then going on to censoring when this attack happens how in the world does that prevent this attack we're spending so much time talking about we can have videos like this with as or so or think it might lead to more rather than answering questions that need to be asked i mean one of the main problems on the scene here is that we continue to put band-aids on gunshot wounds and we need to stop that we need to stop putting band-aids on we need to stop saying let's just stop everybody from that it doesn't get rid of x. rated movies should it come down immediately yes should this be kept from the

public yes take it down i want facebook and others abroad to have a second you know whatever attitude allowing your world or not they have we're talking to you now and you're doing about t.v. do you know they're talking about arguing people will hardly blinded from these sightings will fellow lying dead but you're not talking about how will this prevent it nobody's talking about provide to the question or should be banned them say yes and what i want facebook to do is if i put certain stories about certain political issues i am shadow bad show fast and i want them to use that technology in their genius to figure out wait a minute we're having somebody right now people are being killed this is going to come down from our platform what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things can ban this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shadel ban and that's something i agree should never happen but we're giving. subjected our and authority to social media platforms to never run tents that is unless it

went to hurt us later we don't know who they're going to not like it's all subjective no matter what kind of computer algorithm at the end of the day it will be subjective now listen dr burke do me a favor if you see somebody shooting and killing people shouted down we'll talk about it later don't have a debate do you think that maybe we're giving one person die die die die die die the right to automatically and who's to say whether this could one day be done today people being shot dead whether this might include war coverage or rep or how many people would support mean it while as we're debating this there's some kid somewhere which you ever talk about watching this seeing real time slaughter or the families of these people or whatever of this is violent pornography yes this is horrible that i never want to see this i never want my children to see this i don't want any person to be subject to this kind of violence to this horrible obscene material these publications but this is what i have seen governments cannot stop

this these companies cannot stop this people who post something positive about donald trump are being taken off of social media because of social media heads and managers and so we want them to ban other things instead of us and that is my main thing is that they can't they will not. facebook is facing public scrutiny not just over its handling of hate content but it's also about how it treats personal data it's been a year since the scandal broke of a political consulting firm cambridge analytical which reportedly bored personal data from facebook which it then sold on to third parties who used it to leverage political advantage the whole quarter looks at whether facebook's privacy policies have changed much since then. one might say facebook's had a productive year in its fight against fake news perhaps you've seen their war room . read the headlines.

and heard the assurances we've deployed new ai tools that do a better job of identifying fake accounts that may be trying to interfere in elections or spread misinformation mark zuckerberg has gone after both sides of the political spectrum from alex jones to the russia friendly left it's also been a year since it broke that the social media giant had sold off the data of eighty million users to a political advertising firm transferred facebook data to cambridge emulated personal data mined from nearly eighty seven million facebook users the largest security breach in the company's history this is this is a challenge for more cloud companies so what is facebook actually done aside from zuckerberg saying sorry that is no it was a big mistake that was a mistake and it was my mistake and i'm really sorry that this happened i'm sorry and i'm sorry for it spoiler alert not a lot facebook promised

a forensic audit of cambridge analytic but never delivered then they said they'd look into apps with suspicious activity and punish those who broke privacy rules the last we heard of that was august twenty eighth team and then there was the promise of a new option to clear personal information from the platform if the user wants facebook said that the changes would only take a few months back in may last year and we're still left empty handed but will facebook come out unscathed the researcher behind the cambridge analytical app is suing facebook for defamation alex did not lie alex was not a fool it's alex did not deceive them this was not a scam facebook knew exactly will this app was doing was should have known facebook desperately needed to scapegoat and alex was the scapegoat at the same time a british newspaper is reporting that some facebook shareholders may have been complicit in the data harvesting and the buck doesn't stop there either the federal government is now investigating how zuckerberg treats client privacy. to see deeks

very seriously recent press reports raises substantial concerns to both the privacy broke to sophy's book it's been a year since the biggest privacy scandal in social media but at least facebook's gotten around to censoring alternative media donald quarter r.t. ok that's the way it looks from moscow this hour next on our team to sterling for years of intellectual insight to get a handle on global inequality as renowned academic tells it like it.