hosts are meeting in washington with the president of brazil and pledges to dial up the pressure on venezuela's government. the german court rules berlin must be held accountable for drone attacks conducted by the united states from an army base on its territory. leader of kazakhstan resigns in a shocking announcement after nearly thirty years in power. varying priorities was facebook to slow to stop the spread of footage of friday's mass shooting at mosques in christ church but too swift to secretly silence accounts of political views it deems unsavory. i put certain stories about certain political issues. so. that's what my concern is when they continue to ban these kinds of things and

ban this kind of stuff that potentially. i learned thanks for choosing r.t. international news this hour on moscow right now six pm in washington d.c. that's where we're starting this president welcomes his brazilian counterpart to the white house for a wide ranging talks on tuesday with the 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 what are some other one 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 venice well now when trump and 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 military options are on the table with respect to venezuela and you would like to get involved in. 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 western powers playing the economic

troubles in venezuela are 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 they told me earlier that there was in fact a lack of poverty is despite the u.n. putting the poverty rate of almost ninety percent. it was easier when i. started my but i just dismissed you know if you made it your. medals on c.n.n. you said you. don't live in the us a i was going to. let you know things. before that you'll get. suspicious but just the thought of. actually when i arrived in crackers before before actually as it sort of take a few steps back before i went to venice whether there are a lot of people i know in the journalist community is there well actually alan maybe you should take a pass on going to venezuela you know the crime rates around this 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. site three point four million but as wayland have fled to the country three point four million people don't leave the country if everything's ok or at least manageable. well this is interesting i wonder where these figures go on because according to the government in people that shooting last year seven percent of. you know school. children in that particular mission it went five to seven percent. so also a hundred and twenty thousand colombe in actually settle last year in minnesota. hyperinflation it concentrates on those things but it still seems like

cheap like electricity bills bills other things give us a rounded picture of this because you spent a month in venezuela more recently than 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 but 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 our moment of us but i would say definitely the government has made mistakes but i would also say the u.s. sanctions and he definitely sort of feel you know the effect of u.s. sanctions in the sense of lack of u.s. dollars the lack of being able to use your u.s. financial instruments and i mean i would say that people here do. you know you have the society functions if that makes any sense but caesar said before on

a much lesser scale probably before aside from the crisis in venezuela the brazilian president has some problems of his own to contend with back home i will those talks were going on in washington the brazilian media had a very different story to focus on after reports of a presidential families and their ties to violent gangs have more pain has more on the allegations. apparently he's facing a pretty big scandal back in brazil scandal related to his family and their ties to right wing militia groups that have engaged in both murder and extortion now we saw that earlier this month the arrest of two former police officers who've been sharjah with the killing of councilwoman marielle franco she was assassinated they're charged with the killing now these individuals actually live on the same street that molson our lives in in rio where his rio home is located and when the house was raided they discovered one hundred seventeen automatic rifles in the home

as well as computers containing a whole lot 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 the 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 gang's 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 both

flavio the son of valsin r. and both an r. o. made statements basically saying that this judge had humiliated police officers and could have an anime 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 these 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 had a closed doors meeting with balsa naro 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 remarked nowadays you have a president who is a friend of the united states and admires this beautiful country speaking glow. only 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 now after a court ruled berlin must ensure international law is upheld the case was 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 here's daniel hawkins certainly case that's taken a few years to come through the courts and indeed it's a landmark decision in 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 bin ali jobber who was a new mom alongside his brother walid he was a local police officer in a u.s. drone strike which was later described by the yemeni government as a mistake gave a sermon he addressed the killings conduct. 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 been a job a 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. relatives now at the time in twenty fifteen courts 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 of 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 it became apparent to us that the germans through. on german soil were involved in these strikes and what had happened to my family in

that is possible that my family would not have been a target of such strikes drenched an air base not provided such information. five years on this court and the house rule that the air base 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 laws more of those clients world broken here and also question the government's narrative but that striking twenty twelve didn't breach any international laws to 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 a constant a contradiction that the german government is seeing there the arms sales to the saudis for the were nieman have to be stopped in at the same time. do not intervene to stop the drone strikes on human virus. and you're beast 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 at 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 of yemen. french armed forces minister has attacked the trumpet ministration for putting pressure on washington's nato allies to buy

u.s. made weapons she says the military blocks integrity should not be dictated by america's financial interests the alliance should be unconditional. otherwise it's not in the lines. 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 cohen but aircraft which is after thirty five now the minister was expressing concern over u.s. president donald trump quite as she said conditional approach towards nido and say european allies she was speaking at the atlantic council where she stressed that and it's time that europe move away from full dependency on u.s.

weapons supplies and she also spoke on long term u.s. commitment to nato this is how the french minister slammed trump's idea of 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 by this or that equipment the french minister's words are highlighted by the recent spat between the u.s. and turkey now 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 its 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 u.s. weapons supplies is not something new just last year the french president's unmanly and mccraw no voice stay decades old idea to create a real 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 dad's idea he even called it insulting so it's really seen as that what's happening now is that some needle 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 armed forces ministers thoughts are being 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 a former advisor to the french defense and interior ministers we spoke to believes that 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 or allies that's a good thing and so i would say i am rather happy that trunk has been elected because now all he says more abruptly more. brutal and vulgar our way the real. body see of us regarding europe regarding france particularly my country unless we leave nato

we cannot build we got we cannot go further. construction of european independence and european defense that's. the main point and i think the trial is helping us in realizing this fact which is a pure fact. the first and only president of kazakstan and assault on another buyer has resigned after almost three decades in power. told us more about the unexpected announcement. not a sore thumb as 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 and that's all from 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 eight 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 the presumed to 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's 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 this man is coming from the same party is not sold on that by of and experts say that most likely he will continue the policy. leaving the post of president of cause i stand 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 plain poison for as a regional player after the collapse of communism kazakhstan was set up for the first time coached and became sovereign state for the first. time in one nine hundred ninety and that appears there were those 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 time goes so therefore the new president will be confronted with that but of course at the back if you like of 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 the 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 left 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 tragedy. 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 clues no we are working vigilantly to remove any violent footage facebook says it was only notified about what happened twelve minutes after the live stream ended police in new zealand of warned people that spreading the video is punishable by imprisonment we put to lawyers head to head to ask how social media giant should address the challenges posed by their technologies. i respectfully submit that when you show violence a good human being 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 you 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 i'm seeing 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 because until we can 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 whatever attitude allowing your world or not they have we're talking to you now and you're telling me about keeping you you know they're talking about arguing people will hardly blinded from these sightings will fellow line dead but you're not talking about how will this prevent it nobody's talked about prevent you

the question is should be banned them say yes to 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 we 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 subbed. and our and authority to social media platforms to never run tent that is allowed so when 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 do 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 that while as we're debating this there is some kid somewhere which you never 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 in 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 a facebook 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 over political consulting firm cambridge analytics it reportedly bored personal data from facebook which is then sold to third parties and used it to leverage political advantage don't call to looks at whether facebook's privacy policies have changed 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 analytic or 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 no it 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 teen 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 to for all its 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 sophie's book it's been a year since the biggest privacy scandal in social media but at least facebook's gotten a round of censoring alternative media donald quarter r.t.

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