this hour's top stories scrapping treaties and weaponize in space moscow warns against spiraling into a new arms race in the twenty first century. but donald trump official or a menacing ball facebook backs down apologizes after banning the accounts of u.s. presidents social media chiefs. and opponents of u.s. drone operations in yemen when a small but potentially far reaching legal victory in germany where a court has ordered increased oversight of an american air base used to coordinate strikes. on oh from a new center in moscow wanting to collaborate with world news this hour first for

you russia's foreign minister is warning against the emergence of a new arms race on an even greater scale than the cold war speaking at a disarmament conference in geneva sergei lavrov said he regrets america's willingness to undermine some cornerstone treaties on controlling weapons stockpiles in turn washington questioned moscow's intentions in preventing an arms race his artie's maria phenomena. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov i have to say has been very critical and has in fact accused america of destabilizing world security lover of has expressed his dippers concerns frustration and fear is over the current situation in the field of nonproliferation of weapons and global arms control emphasizing that africa is 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 a washington but as mosco can see right now washington is not ready for these dollars and this is what minister lavrov has read to radio. one more time and he has brought among other things america's recent steps in developing space to miss our defense program alarm and steps as it moves. in 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 day the future of the mankind will hear russia's voice and follow the

right path. next to the u.k.'s bricks and jews term all works look set to continue well beyond the fast approaching march the twenty ninth deadline to raise a maze now written to the e.u. to request a three month extension to the withdrawal process a move the prime minister staunchly defended in parliament in the earlier. 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 tell a brick seat any further than that. or i let's go live to westminster elsie's honest to see it check it out ok she's not prepared to let it go be the end of june she's been saying she would let it go beyond the end of march just nine days away politics changed by the way you are talking through where we are right now if you can. well of course call in just a wee over

a week to go until that official broke the deadline is supposed to kick in here we are with the british prime minister requesting officially an extension to article fifty requesting that the deadline be pushed back she calls it a short one three months long until june thirtieth and of course she had to make her case not just with brussels by sending a letter officially requesting this to the european council president. but also here in westminster where she is still battling on trying to convince her m.p.'s to support her prime minister's questions at the house of commons she was trying to make her case and she was saying that this was a sensible request to put forwards to deliver bracks it's quote a reasonable timetable but according to teresa mayes critics nothing about what's

been going on has been reasonable or sensible. all she's doing is running down the clock after a second heavy duty today it was just marks one thousand days since the referendum on this government is let the country and themselves into crisis chaos and division . we are still legally due to leave the euro preview. time. running down the clock on a concerted campaign of blackmail bullying and bribery has failed to good things. well just to be clear for any such extension to actually be able to take place we need to see european member states to all come together and approve such an extension and we have seen in response to official to the official plea from theresa may to have an extension a statement made by the european council president who essentially said sure

we can approve an extension but this is based on the condition that you first go ahead and approve the withdrawal deal with the house of commons let's take a listen. to. the show to shoot people should be. to have the condition the. vote. in the house of. well where this leaves to resubmit a really remains uncertain at this particular moment of course if you remember this is the deal that has been rejected twice at the house of commons by quite a considerable margin to receive me was planning to bring back this deal in for another vote this week however the speaker of the house of commons said this wouldn't really be possible to do unless there was any fundamental differences in the deal presented to m.p.'s to vote on so here we have the

european union for now in the face of donald certainly we're expecting more commentary to come in as. the summit takes place in brussels of this thursday but for now here he is saying that we want you to approve this deal and then you can have the extension while this is. a deal that you know is not getting approval here in westminster so the way things stand now we are indeed done nine days away from march twenty ninth then legally speaking this is when the u.k. where no britain is supposed to leave the european union unless some kind of magical new development takes place. which difficult to keep up with this i don't know up from down at the moment or i will keep watch on what happens with the summit where patience is wearing thin the other e.u. leaders for now they're an associate of westminster thank you for that. a case of mistaken identity has forced facebook into making an apology after a bound donald trump social media director for believing he was

a boss has the details. we have an apology from facebook for banning the account of dan scavenger the white house social media director they are confirming that it is indeed outrageous to claim that he was a bot that the account was definitely not a bot account it was a legit account and that he should not have been blocked 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 convener 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 trump was quick to speak up on social media saying that it was a political move not motivated by alleged bot activity trump spoke up saying 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 he also attacked the media as he often does when speaking to reporters during his meeting with balsa naro used 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 conservative lawmaker devon noone is his at this point suing twitter saying that it discriminates against conservatives that hides the message of conservatives and highlights libel and slander against conservatives at this point there is widespread criticism of social media outlets

for the fact that they seem to have a huge amount of influence in crafting public opinion. and not only in the united states but around the world and many of the conservatives who are now criticizing social media monopolies they essentially argue that they are abusing that power. censorship concerns are also being debated in australia right now on tuesday 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 says that while it is 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 the move comes as pressure mounts on tech companies and social media sites to explain why they allowed videos of the massacre to appear on their platforms the authorities on australia are also investigating whether a number of national t.v. stations used the footage appropriately and the new zealand itself the three largest broadband providers have temporarily suspended access to sites hosting images of the atrocity on facebook has perhaps borne the brunt of the criticism though for around seventeen minutes the gunman live streamed the massacre on the platform now although it says it work to remove the footage you could still be reportedly found with relative ease hours after the shootings previously activist and technology expert build new says that effectively policing content is an unwinnable battle. obviously we have had to have rules in terms of taste and decency in what is or is not offensive but what some people would argue is offensive other people can argue is afraid most 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 ai to differentiate in terms of what 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 of messaging platforms starts to become encrypted you need even gain to be able to see what's there so any form of moderated imposition is going to be impossible. bosnian serb jailed for his role in the yugoslav was in the ninety's has had his sentence radically increased since our next story after the break.

most of us believe we live in a society based on merit and equal justice the varsity blues college admissions scandal conformists that both are true the rich and privileged can buy access for their kids at the expense of families who are hard working and is the idea of marriage. love and the wealthy in america decided we're all playing anymore we're going to just grab as much as we can of the cash out there in the system and put it off shore and that's why there's not twenty two trillion offshore and so there you have credit in the system the central bank instead of punishing the banks just flooded the system with more of the fia money and then those who are the paranoid. versus the have nots decided you know we're going to put more offshore so they just keep printing and shipping it off shore and it's completely bypassing the economy and so the economy is getting more starved for credit and the people are getting more rest.

is being sentenced to life behind bars by a u.n. court for his role in the civil wars the group the former republic of yugoslavia in the one thousand nine hundred. forty year war crimes sentence extended in the appeals court five judges have held them to give him back in two thousand and sixteen for the mass killings of civilians in. that there was no evidence of him committing the crimes finding since now seventy three years old carriage has been on the run 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 now the capital of bosnia and herzegovina the appeals courts now confirmed his guilt in what's been described as the worst massacres since the second world war including the sort of it a massacre. it's left thousands dead back in one thousand nine hundred five.

the yugoslav walls the bloodiest conflicts in european history since the second world war tensions between a complex mix of nationalities forming the state of yugoslavia erupted into a faces civil war originate yugoslavia included six republics with different nationalities and religious groups. the communist revolutionary and statesman tito who established the federal republic of yugoslavia managed to suppress nationalism to his death and the nine hundred eighty s. relations among the republics quickly deteriorated with each of them seeking their own independence is soon turned ugly old signs. the nine hundred ninety five genocide in tripper needs it is one of the bloodiest

pages in yugoslav history the massacre of more than eight thousand muslim both the acts perpetrated by units of the bulls. resulted in their commander ratko being jailed for life by the un special court in november twenty seventh. patrol cities happened old sites in one thousand nine hundred three sixty nine so been civilians were killed by bosnia and herzegovina army forces in the scale and a massacre with unorthodox church in a cemetery burned to the ground. overall despite much evidence of war crimes conducted similar taney asli by different forces the cia eventually declared said militants were responsible but ninety percent of all crimes including genocide. they took goes into action against yugoslavia it is indeed tragic that diplomacy has failed and nato is now intervening in a war in a sovereign country. and eventual nato air

campaign conducted a number of operations one to mine the military capability old the ball seems to me . to this day the un special court is still investigating war crime cases from the home faked. we had from belgrade based research i just haven't got to choose says it's mainly serbian facing convictions despite all sides being party to the conflict and its crimes. i think that he hopes he'll. stay sickly for historical reasons so that there is a trace of him feeling and i think that he is still acting as a politician as the first president of. the hague tribunal was a political court that was set out to. convict serbs even if you look at the basic statistics more than seventy percent of all

people who are in good shape were from the search site and sort of more all the political leaders were trials and convicted while the undersides were not there. the german government bez legal responsibility for u.s. drone strikes directed and controlled from german territory that's been decided by a court in a case brought by families of civilian victims in yemen than holkins reports from 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 by the united states air force does out here strictly to international law in twenty twelve 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 drenched an air base not provided such information on 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 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 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 seeing there the arms sales to the side of 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 where this court case hasn't played out entirely how the job or family wanted it to they were hoping for

a complete ban on the use of ramstein air force for anything to do with the 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 first 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. president of brazil's been dubbed the trump of the tropics for both the likeness of his persona and his policies so it was perhaps a little surprise the job also narrows first official for a visit so him touched down in the united states this week and the real donald trump was keen to get their relationship off to a solid start. 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 fooling you up a little. thank you for the meeting began on a cheery note with the two leaders exchanging football shirts with one another's names on twitter was quick to pick up on which president got the real deal when it came to the shit. and. this is the u.s. national team and so that's an honor to give that to you thank you very much for that. very. scenario jerry see with paper tape tahn té it i'm howling. how does post an aura

give trump a legit jersey and trump gives him this. this is humiliating. conversation between two of trump's aides he 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 a white short a printer some paper and good. as i would look for moscow so far this out i'll be back with you next artie international update after watching the whole. wrong. all. get to shape out just days after. the trail.

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and then freeze on the sounds of an mit grown man with misleading essentially. twisted away from the officers. of his group. obviously did they kind of lunge for the web in one's midst and then when it happened on trace one as i didn't hit him i never saw any contact with. any kind went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer is gone and. thank you thank. you. greetings and sal you take a shit. you know i'm getting flashbacks hawk watchers after witnessing the bernie sanders presidential campaign battle with the washington post like it's march of

two thousand and sixteen all over again. you see on march fifteenth this year while sanders was on the campaign stump through trials in south carolina he delivered one of his usual fiery zingers towards our good friends on wall street declaring quote not one major wall street executive went to jail for destroying our economy in two thousand and eight as a result of their greed recklessness and illegal behavior no they didn't go to jail they got a trillion dollar bail out. this quote naturally sent the big bank loving corporate democrat wing into the into a flutter but then fully washington post back jack or glenn kessler stepped in to write this terrible terrible wrong and he awarded sanders to put nokia o's because according to washington post math with the great bank bailout was just over five hundred billion or half a trillion not a full trillion because i guess that to happen

a billion makes all the difference between deciding if the big banks and wall street are just greedy scum or incredibly greedy scum these sanders team and others who reported extensively on the bailouts like my at mattei e.b.u. rolling stone were quick to point out and cry foul on the washington post back checkers rather sketchy math when the number might actually be in the trillions when you factor in federal reserve emergency loans this of course caused fact checker kesler to break out the tomato tomato car regarding what should or should not be considered a bailout and while this great debate over trillions have trillions bailouts or no trillions or non bailouts that's going to go on and on and on and on meanwhile for us you know us citizens and for us citizens of color the only numbers they see from the big banks when seeking the american dream is a big fat no let's start watching the whole us.

it's like. that if. you. like you know that i got. with. the. world the other one the watching the hawks i go for it yes the numbers don't lie according to research by reveal from the center for investigative reporting fifty years after the federal fair housing act banned racial discrimination in lending african-americans latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts and joining me today to break down this breakdown of the american dream is author and speaker the walk ins from baltimore and in atlanta from the housing justice league tim friends and thank

you both for coming on day and discussing this issue that i think does not get enough discussion in america today. because the idea of the america has always been the american dream you get a house you own you have property something of that tim i want to start with you atlanta according to this information from riggs reveals investigation and research atlanta was one of the cities highlighted in their investigation and they claim that black conventional home mortgage applicants were two point four times as likely to be denied as white applicants native americans two point one times latino one point six are these numbers accurate to what you're seeing in atlanta. absolutely and i mean i would go further and just say that the impact we still live in the shadow of the housing crisis early in the early two thousand not only do african americans struggle to get loan approvals they were hit hardest and they were hit.