donald trump posts a 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 us from an army base on its territory. in the context that resigns and the shock announcement after nearly thirty years in power. are broadcasting live here of course today is moscow this is our team international on sean thomas. president to welcome his brazilian counterpart hire.

to the white house on tuesday our team at this ceremony has for. 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 equal ass mother 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 venice well actually now when it trumped what's the matter what i'm talking about focusing on their meeting on venezuela he didn't mention anything about and this is what he had to say that 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. 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 trump when asked about possible military intervention this is what he said every options on the table with respect to venezuela 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 meanwhile the russian deputy foreign minister warned of the u.s. against any attempts to use force in venezuela artie's. of. we strongly urged the u.s. side during the talks today. any temptation to resort to military power it includes a warning against soldiers the hard core message military intervention which cannot be excluded given the type of behavior we see on the u.s. side in recent years but it also includes what i would describe as

a low intensity conflict any treason into the sovereign territory of the new sailors from abroad a elements that could be described as part of military as you know stage up for occasions or otherwise involved and interfering into the affairs of the state. while both scenario was meeting trump in washington the brazilian media had a very different focus on the story after reports emerged on president. alleged ties to violent gangs and has more. 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 both in 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. we won 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 onto 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 that both flavio the son of valsin r. and also naro made statements basically saying that this judge had humiliated police officers and could have anime and and it was it was quite harsh ever for an 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 media that has always criticized me they want to do so it was a clear connection but i never saw the gentleman in my gated community i don't read

is going to have much time to you know you can gauge and social life with them it's important to note 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 remarked 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. after those talks with both in our own donald trump once again slammed the material government he accused of destroying venezuela's economy it's happening there is a disgrace this was one of the wealthiest countries in the world and all of

a sudden it's just it's grief stricken poverty stricken no food no water no air conditioning no anything no power for a long time last week no power and that's going to break down again because it's being held together by threats to journalists who spent a month shooting a documentary in caracas last year claim the reports of extreme poverty are being exaggerated they spoke to my colleague contrary. but i guess it's nice to have that and you know it may take some of the response from metals. that act as though in the us they are going to be thankful that they know things. before that you're. just back to the battle when it comes 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 rate is 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 i mean people were still going to jobs people were still continuing with their lives people going to find it hard to believe at the u.n. say 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 the. 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 and twenty thousand. actually settle last year in minnesota. hyperinflation it concentrates on those things but it still seems like

cheap like a electricity bills bills other things give us 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 anything else but even in troubled countries life has a spectrum so give us a fuller picture then life in venezuela tough as it is how is it really. well as you said it is tough i mean it is hard i would say yes i mean this is our moment columnist 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 you know u.s. financial instruments and i mean i would say that people here do eat. you know the society function. a german court has ruled that the government bears legal

responsibility for u.s. drone strikes launched from german territory case was brought forward by a group of yemenis who queues to berlin of complicity in drone strikes launched from a base in southwestern germany and he's genuine reports now from berlin. so in a 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 the sermon he addressed the killings conduct of 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 a. and to us that the germans through. 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 a target of such strikes and drenched an airbase not provided such information. five years on this quarter months 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 law laws norms or clients were broken here and also question the government's narrative but

that striking twenty twelve didn't breach 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 a constant a 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 of yemen. all right the president of kazakhstan a step down in a shock move on much more when we come back you're watching our chief international .

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back this is our national and the french armed forces minister has attacked the trumpet ministration for putting pressure on washington that nato allies to buy u.s. made weapons she says that 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 of 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 u.s. weapons supplies and she also spoke on long term u.s. commitment to nato this is how the french minister slammed trumps 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 you were to become more and more independent from us weapons supplies is not something new just last year the french presence in one way and mccraw in the voice stay decades old idea to create really european army which would be independent from it's a partner on the other side of the atlantic but the us president donald trump harshly criticized that 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 it that it will be cutting back its nato spending by two thousand and twenty three former advisor to the french defense and interior ministries we spoke to believes the e.u. needs to leave it 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 i would say i am rather happy that trend has been elected because now oh he says. more abruptly more. in a brutal and vulgar our way their real abolish the of the us regarding

europe and regarding france particularly my country unless we leave nato we cannot built we got we cannot go further. construction of the european in that band and european defense that's. the main point and i think the not is helping us in realizing this fact which is a pure fact. first and only president of kazakhstan north. of has resigned after almost three decades in power it is rare for national told us more about the unexpected announcement. as above has announced his resignation after twenty nine years in power a while serving his feet term as the country's president he had been in fact the

first and the 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 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 you know they're doing 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 country's 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 as a by of an expert say that most likely he will continue the policy as a 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 because he's trying to set up the first to close down became sovereign state for the first. time in one nine hundred ninety and that period there were that's 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 time goes so

therefore the new president would 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 to be rapid changes let's have gradual change but let's control change. facebook is facing a public scrutiny for how it treats personal data it has been a year since the scandal broke over political consulting firm cambridge analytic on it portably brought personal data from facebook which then sold on to third parties who used it to to leverage political advantage or to stomach order comments now on whether facebook's privacy policies have changed since that. 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. or.

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 for 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 that 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 and 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 takes very seriously recent press reports raises substantial concerns to both the privacy so facebook it's been a year since the biggest privacy scandal in social media but at least facebook scott around the censoring alternative media donald quarter r.t. more news in let's say thirty three minutes watching our two international. i'm not i'm. i. don't it that here is there is no.

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