from from. from. from from. scrapping the treaties on the weapon space moscow warns against spiraling into a new arms race in the twenty first century. donald trump official or let's say you bought facebook box apologizes after bombing the us president's social media chief. of u.s. drone operations in yemen with a small but potentially far reaching legal victory in germany for a court has ordered increased oversight. to coordinate strikes.

live from our international news center in moscow this is. your company i mean and our top story russia's foreign minister has warned against the emergence of a new arms race on an even greater scale than the cold war speaking at a conference on disarmament in geneva circular for office said he regrets america's willingness to undermine some cornerstone treaties on controlling weapon stockpiles at the same in switzerland washington question moscow's intention to prevent in this race here's our. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov i have to say has been very critical and has in fact accused america of destabilizing world security has expressed his defense concerns frustration and fear is over the current situation in the field of nonproliferation of weapons and global arms controls

emphasizing that efforts designed to destroy global basic agreements that proved to be doing their job well in guaranteeing world security and protecting international peace are. rising and this is a very dangerous tendency a lover of has particularly referred to america's recent withdrawal from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty known as the i and after treaty signed between moscow and washington back in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven warning that the recent developments may turn threats of nuclear warhead into a groom reality. through which we are now hearing is talk of the possibility of unleashing a limited nuclear war for russia and i hope all the other countries represented here such a prospect is unacceptable however such a scenario could become a reality if we together fail to find a sensible alternative to recent tendencies aimed at undermining the very edifice of arms control treaties should there be a new arms race a lot of countries will rely on their nuclear and missile arsenals as the only

guarantee of their national security russia has responded by saying that it will also suspend its obligations under the agreement but speaking of the conference in geneva earlier on wednesday minister lavrov has stressed that it wasn't russia's decision it wasn't russia's initiative russia has simply responded and russia remains open for the dialogue and is not interested in any way in arms race with washington but as most co can see right now washington is not ready for these dollars and this is what minister lavrov has rater rated one more time and he has brought among other things america's recent steps in developing space missile. defense program alarm and steps as believes. the u.s. funds have been earmarked for the establishment of a space missile defense system as well as putting strike capabilities into orbit

this is opening pandora's box as minister lavrov has said russia hopes and believes that its western partners colleagues are responsible for global security and at the end of the. the future of the mankind will hear russia's voice and follow the right path. the ukase briggs's term or looks to continue well beyond the fast approaching march twenty ninth deadline trees and i was there written to the e.u. to request a three month extension to the withdrawal process a move the prime minister staunchly defended in parliament on wednesday i have this morning ritual to present to us the president of the european council informing informing him that the u.k. seeks an extension to the article fifty period until the thirtieth of june as prime minister. i am not prepared to delay breaks it any further than that. yet again the developments are coming in quite quickly here

in westminster indeed it is just over a week to go until the official breck's a deadline is meant to kick in on march twenty ninth and what exactly is going to be unraveling within these next couple of days might indeed be quite hectic earlier today the british prime minister requesting an extension of article fifty she presented her case both in a letter to european council president donald tusk as well as the prime minister's questions session at the house of commons earlier today and despite promises to stick with the march twenty ninth deadline theresa may is asking for a three month extension until june thirtieth while according to her this is a sensible request to put forward that is meant to deliver bracks at quote a reasonable timetable according to her critics it's been anything but reasonable

everything that's been surrounding going on surrounding backs it all she's doing is running down the clock after a second heavy duty to date was just marked. one thousand days since the referendum and this government is let the country and themselves into crisis chaos and division is still legally due to leave the european union. time. running down the clock on a concerted campaign of blackmail bullying and bribery has failed to good things. well the teresa mayes idea it seems has been to bring back her breck's a deal back to the house of commons undeterred by the fact that that deal was voted down twice by a very considerable margins by her fellow m.p.'s still that was her plan until recently we saw the house speaker say that no such vote should be taking place

until there's something quote fundamentally different to vote on still the prime minister least the way things stand now plans to bring that deal back for another vote now the european member states have to approve the extension that to rescind may requested but the problem there is we've heard already from the e.u. commission say that to me had formally been warm warns that any date past may twenty third is not really acceptable to them because that is the date of the european parliament elections we've also seen reaction from the french foreign minister saying take the deal or there will be no extension and you leave without an agreement now more of this is expected to be settled later on tonight and there's also a summit taking place in brussels this thursday where more like should be shed them how exactly all of this is going to be unraveling for now still march twenty ninth is the deadline so that is still the departure date at least as we speak.

the president of brazil is dubbed the trump of the tropics for both the likeness in his persona and policies so it was perhaps a little surprise and jai europe nora's first official foreign visit saw him touched on this week in the u.s. and the real donald trump was keen to get the relationship off to a solid stored. i also know that we're going to have a fantastic working relationship. we have many views that are similar and we certainly feel very very true to each other on trade i think brazil's relationship with the united states because of our friendship is probably better than it's ever been by far. respect whatever the ballots tell us on twenty twenty but i do believe donald trump is going to be reelected foully. thank you for a factory. the meeting began on

a cheery note with the two leaders exchanging football jerseys with one another's names on twitter was quick to pick up on which president got the real deal when it came to the shirts well. this is the u.s. national team and so that's an honor to give that to you thank you. jerry c. with paper tape content i'm howling. how does boston oracular trump legit and trump gives you. this is humiliating. conversation between two of trump's aides they gave us a brazil jersey for our president but we didn't prepare anything for him what should we do now i know just get me and white short

a printer some paper and. a case of mistaken identity has forced facebook into making an apology after it trumps social media director believing him to be a bot let's go live to our correspondents caleb maupin in new york city killing those bots seemingly ship shifting from russians to republicans or not where in this case. yes dan scavenger is the white house social media director and we now have an apology from facebook for temporarily blocking his account they say it resembled the activities of the bot this is some of what they said in their statement apologizing in order to stop automated bots we count the amount of identical repetitive activity coming from one

account in a short period of time such as mentioning people these limits can have the unintended consequence of temporarily preventing real people like bans could be no from engaging in such activity but lift in an hour or two which is what happened in this case we've been in touch with him and have apologized for the inconvenience now trump has spoken up on social media saying that this was not an accident that this was political he tweeted out quote facebook google and twitter not to mention the corrupt media are so on the side of the radical left democrats but fear not we will win anyway just like we did before hash tag make america great again and now later in the day he also spoke to reporters and he attacked the media once again this is trump criticizing the media as he often does use the word collusion very loosely all the time and i will tell you there is collusion with respect to that

because something has to be going on and when you get the back scene back office statements made by executives of the various companies and you see the level of. in many cases hatred they have for a certain group of people that happened to be in power that happened to have won the election you say that's really unfair. now a conservative lawmaker named devon newness is taking twitter to court he says that it discriminates against conservatives by essentially hiding their messages and not allowing their message to get as widely circulated meanwhile allowing slanderous and libelous allegations against conservatives to be widely circulated criticism of facebook twitter and different social media outlets seems to focus on the fact that they were ability to craft public opinion is quite massive and conservatives in the united states are increasingly arguing that they are abusing that power live in new

york this our first kiss of thanks very much came up in our correspondence. well essentially the censorship concerns are also being debated in australia at the moment on choose the country's largest telecoms company blocked access to a number of websites that are continuing to display footage of friday's mosque attacks in new zealand telstra say that while it's considered the implications for freedom of speech it believes the measure is necessary given the circumstances we have moved to temporarily block a number of websites that continue to host a friday's terrorist attack in christ church when the stand this may cause inconvenience for some legitimate uses of these sites but these are extraordinary circumstances and they're required an extraordinary response we appreciate that it is necessary to ensure free speech is carefully balanced against protecting the community but with these sites continuing to host disturbing content we feel it is

the right thing to do to block them. move comes pressure months on tech companies on social media sites to explain why videos of the must occur to appear on their platforms authorities in australia are also investigating whether a number of national t.v. stations use the footage appropriately and in new zealand itself the three largest broadband providers have temporarily suspended access to sites hosting images of the atrocity. well facebook has promised borne the brunt of the criticism for run seventeen minutes the gunman live streamed the massacre on the platform although it say's if it were to remove the footage it could still video reportedly be found hours after the shootings we're joined live nod by the activist on technology expert bill. for his take bill good to see you again does blocking

access to certain online content potentially sent. it depends we have to weigh up the pros and cons between what might be seen as censorship against protecting people from offensive content from us by others. telstra has justified its move by saying these were extraordinary circumstances though it's not the first time it's happened back in twenty sixteen build the. murder of five police officers in dallas was live streamed it does beg the question how of tech companies not find a way of presenting preventing such situations for going for so long. i think you need to differentiate between an issue lay finding out the existence of

the content and then preventing it from being posted repeatedly there are two different challenges here the first one is if you don't know in advance and hindsight is great we can now sit here with the benefit of hindsight to point fingers but at the time when it was an initially posted an initially broadcast nobody knew it was coming and therefore spotting is obviously going to be a challenge given the wealth of video and other sort of posts that are being posted all of the town much of the video surveillance or all moderating is done by human beings and therefore there is inevitably going to be a workload a balance to be struck here how work once it has been spotted and has been identified is a face as offensive they can it then creates a fingerprint which actually allows you to prevent a certain piece of footage being posted time and time again in an unadulterated phone and this technique was used successfully by facebook to prevent something like one and a half million additional postings the u.k.

where you are now has called for legal action against tech companies home secretary such a job and said the companies who don't clean up their platform should be preferred to face the force of the law do you agree that web site should be monitored within a legal framework. i think we do need some regulation on a whole host of different fronts but it is possibly unfair to point your fingers at facebook and others at this moment in time when the president of turkey use some of the political campaigning in his own way in newspaper sites. as the mail the mirror in the sun all carried some footage on their sites initially it's since been pulled out and when it is so difficult given the fact that facebook pulled down over one and a half million posts and was struggling in order to prevent many many more people posting it and therefore i think the challenge is significant but we do need some form of regulation the big challenge here is the fact that there is always going to

be more content than we are able to moderate manually we need to have artificial intelligence that is going to be improved such that it can differentiate in real time what is offensive content and what and where a very long way from that yet and it goes back to that point against bell who polices the policeman who who who looks kind of has a second i on who say what can or cannot be sure. obviously we have to to have rules in terms of taste and decency and what is or is not offensive but what some people would argue is offensive other people can argue speech and it's very difficult for regulations to define this for all circumstances and therefore very difficult for some of the hosting providers actually to moderate accurately especially given the volume of content and the difficulty of this moment

in time for any form of a our way to differentiate in terms of water appears in the video it's very very difficult and then of course there's a lot of talk now about encryption and if more and more content especially in messaging platforms starts to become encrypted you didn't even going to be able to see what any form of moderated position is going to be impossible bill thanks very much for your time and thoughts this our ability to see activist and technology expert live on the program. and we are back here on this program in ninety seconds with more news. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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the german government has legal responsibility for a u.s. drone strikes directed uncontrolled from german territory that's been decided by a court in a case brought by families upset the victims in yemen daniel hawkins in berlin. landmark case in germany with the court in the city of months the ruling that the german government does bear at least partial responsibility for ensuring that the use of its air base in the southern city of ramstein and by the united states air force does out here strictly to international law in two thousand and twelve three yemenis lost relatives five sell been. lost his brother in law asylum been job or who was an air mom alongside his brother will lead in a u.s. drone strike 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 i drenched an airbase not provided such information the case was initially dismissed by a court in cologne back in twenty fifteen the court has now ruled that in fact the base did play a central role in facilitating the relaying of data for drone strikes in yemen judges ordered the government to take all appropriate measures through ensure that the u.s. force was complying with international law and to press washington if necessary to get the answers they required it also ordered the government to investigate the questions and the concerns put forward by the family surrounding the legality of that airstrike 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 germany is a country that stopped arms shipments to saudi arabia which is a key player in the yemeni conflict described as one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of this century and also a key u.s. ally however the use of the ramstein air base for facilitating. strikes has carried on and this has come in for criticism from human rights representatives i think it is definitely a constant a contradiction that the german government is saying that the arms sales to the saudis for the were in yemen have to be stopped and at the same time. do not intervene to stop the drone strikes on even via ramstein air base this court case hasn't played out entirely how the job really wanted it through they were hoping for a complete ban on the use of ramstein air force for anything to do with u.s.

drone strikes in yemen any german government has said they will look into the ruling they will study it carefully but this can be viewed as an important step in perhaps looking at the legality of various international legal framework surrounding the use of ramstein air base for conducting unmanned drone strikes in the yemen conflict. a former bosnian serb leader has been sentenced to life behind bars by a u.n. court for his role in the civil wars that gripped the former republic of yugoslavia in the early one nine hundred ninety s. rather than current itch saw his forty year old work try and sentence extended in the hague's appeals court five judges upheld the verdict given back in twenty sixteen for the mass killings of civilians in the conflict card which argues that there was no evidence of him into committing crimes hostages she's now seventy three years old courage which had been on the run for twelve years before he was

finally arrested in two thousand and eight he was found guilty on ten counts including overseeing the siege of sarajevo the capital of bosnia and herzegovina the appeals courts. also confirmed his guilt in what's been described as the worst massacres since the second world war including the massacre which left thousands dead back in one nine hundred ninety five. well for further insight in there somehow to say stephan guy it's joins us live a researcher at the institute for european studies in bell grade did the appeal courts this isn't surprised you. no it didn't com i was surprised also i heard the hague tribunal was a political court and i would even say a kangaroo court that was set out to to convict the serbs even if you look at the basic statistics more than seventy percent of people

who are indicate where from to surfside and sort of more all the certain political leaders who are trials and convicted while the undersides were not there but the biggest problem with the hague is that this actually it is a racist courts because. it was a cork sent for to crimes in former yugoslavia which of course includes all sides involved and though we didn't see anybody from the political. leadership of the nato countries commit to. one of the some of the worst war trials it is they were not care neither clinton nor nor nor any all the people who ordered evolving off both the public the sub scott in washington can't think of the not and federal republic of yugoslavia also right without his friend we do we have said i was very much for your view in the actual court itself but on the sentencing why did carr

a ditch appeal to twenty sixteen very did he feel he had nothing to lose because of his age is into his seventy's now he's already in jail for forty years. i think on human tissue he's going to spend the rest of his life in prison i think that he appealed. basically for historical reasons so that there is a trace of him being linked and i think that he is still acting as a politician as the first president all that sort of scot. and i think that he wanted to do one or more proof that. he is as. actually i was a political corpse and i believe that that he has done so because the court did not find a single. while hard evidence that he ordered any although all of the of the war crimes that certainly did happen only on all sides and on the server

side all the conflicts of course. but there wasn't a solid proof that can link him to ordering any of these that happened all right thank you for your time this are the thoughts of a stephan guy a chair researcher at the institute for european studies in belgrade. and thank you for your company today colleen will be here guiding us through the midweek global news updates in thirty see you soon this is our two international. tabs. we shot i had to get up on soldier that i. got a lot of close attention on bush honestly i'm not going to now go i mean. not.

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