privilege can buy access for their kids at the expense of families who are hard working. is the idea of marriage. reason may further inflame tensions over brecht's it by asking the e.u. to push back the rapidly approaching divorce date. donald trump official or a menacing ball facebook backs down apologizes after banning the accounts of the us president's social media chief. scrapping treaties and weaponize in space moscow once again spiraling into a new arms race in the twenty first century. good evening from moscow over to the pin this wednesday here in the russian capital on. with the news this hour starting off with the breakfast in joost mall which for the

u.k. looks set to continue well beyond the fast approaching march the twenty ninth deadline to raise a major now written to the e.u. to request a three month extension to the withdrawal process the move the prime minister staunchly defended in parliament. i have to ask this morning richen 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. i am not prepared to delay breaks it any further than. 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 of with brussels by sending a letter officially requesting this to the european council but also here in westminster where she is. still battling on trying to convince her m.p.'s to support her 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 defeat today was just marks one thousand days since the referendum and this government is led the country and themselves into crisis chaos and division while 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 me to have an extension a statement made by the european council president. believe the show to extension

would people should be. but two of the condition of all the positive votes on there was a draw at the moment 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 so 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 britain is supposed to leave the european union unless some kind of magical new development takes place. a case of mistaken identity has forced facebook into making an apology donald trump's social media director believing him to be

a boss callum open has the details to have an apology from facebook for banning the account of dam scavenge the white house social media director they are confirming the. 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 ben's 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 it 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 not only in the united states but around the world and many of the conservatives who are now criticizing social media money. they essentially argue. they are abusing that power. censorship concerns are also being debated in australia at the moment 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's considered the implications of freedom of speech it believes the measures 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 in australia are also investigating whether a number of national t.v. stations used the footage appropriately and in new zealand itself the three largest broadband providers have temporarily suspended access to sites hosting images of the atrocity of facebook's perhaps borne the brunt of the criticism though for around seventeen minutes the gunman live streamed to the massacre on the platform although it says it worked to remove the footage it could still reportedly be found with relative ease hours after the shootings previously activist and technology expert bill news says that effectively policing content is an unwinnable battle. obviously we have need 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. be 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 water appears in the video it's very very difficult then of course there's a lot of talk now about encryption more and more content especially messaging platforms starts to become encrypted you'll be even going to be able to see what any form of moderated position is going to be impossible. 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 question moscow's intentions in preventing an arms race here's artie's marouf a national russia's foreign minister sergey 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 controls emphasizing that after it's 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 am after treaty signed between moscow and washington back in. nineteen eighty seven warning that the recent developments may turn threats of nuclear warhead into a groom reality. 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 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 day the future of the mankind will hear russia's voice and follow the right path. united states is being accused of possible war crimes in somalia in a damning new report the rights group amnesty international says it on earth compelling evidence that fourteen civilians have been killed in just five of america's asterix since twenty seventeen. the civilian death toll we've uncovered in just a handful of strikes suggests the shroud of secrecy surrounding the u.s. role in the war is actually a smokescreen for impunity. i'm just he says the u.s.

military has carried out more than one hundred ass trikes in somalia since twenty seventeen and that the number of civilian deaths may be far higher than fourteen washington dramatically stepped up its anti terror operations in the impoverished african country two games ago donald trump's request. and despite that the u.s. africa command maintains that it has not killed or even wounded a single civilian in somalia the u.s. says all its efforts are concentrated on eliminating the al qaeda linked militant group al-shabaab let's get more on this now from the editor of the pan-african newswire a bayani as a keyway welcome to the program again why do you think that such a discrepancy between what amnesty says and what african claims. well africa has to justify. a war to. the horn of africa nation of somalia this is escalated since the trumpet ministrations been off in office for the last

two years there's absolutely no results from this other than turning more people in somalia against us now is that and of course we've heard for decades now that these bombs are perception. was that they did not harm civilians we know that that is not the case. do you expect the u.s. to investigate amnesties findings and what if anything will come of this report. i think right now with the political atmosphere that existence of the united states will be very little investigation trying to ministrations preoccupied with numerous investigations into its operations since it assumed office two years ago i don't think they really care about the lives and the conditions there. africans are facing in the horn of africa are these a methodology. to test out these new weapons they can just be labeled

people as being al-qaeda or isis and then therefore people should not question how many people have died on the ground but these problems in somalia have been the developing for decades and they should be dealt with diplomatically is no military solution to the question of who is going to control somalia how do you say america's military operations in somalia are affecting the security situation that because the u.s. would presumably argue that it's been effective in helping bolster the central government. while the central government is being bolster. the united states the european union the united nations the african mission to somalia which is funded by both the pentagon and the european union so in that regard they have not fostered any sustainable stability inside the country so these issues are being evaluated among the states some are considering pulling out because they've been

there now for twelve years and still al-shabaab is operating in the south and the central regions of the country white house the u.s. become more militarily involved in somalia in recent years what's strategic importance for washington. well the entire region of the horn of africa and the east african coast has course been the site of the discovery of the development exploitation. all as well as natural gas resources is also city typically located. arabian peninsula it is located near the gulf of aden which is one of the most lucrative shipping lanes in the world so the u.s. does have to teach an interest in this area and since it's really not reported by the mainstream media and the united states they feel they can and will bomb somalia

on a weekly basis of course there will be no political repercussions. somalia tragic as it is it slipped from the news cycle has not ok thanks for your time and i mean i came away from the pan-african newswire thanks for your time. the better our over integration between the e.u. and hungary has now led to the suspension of the far right prime minister viktor orban party from the european parliament's largest political grouping. feeders will be suspended with immediate effect and until further notice following today's vote members this is. no attendance any party meeting new voting rights no right to propose candidates for posts. the final straw for the decision became an anti immigration plan a campaign launched by all but his party billboards hinted towards a sinister link between. billionaire philanthropist and george soros it was captioned you have the right to know what brussels is preparing for you after

a massive majority voted to sideline opens party from the e.u. center right group leaders said he'd agreed a voluntary suspension we had from a hungary based political analyst who believes the party's suspension could complicate the upcoming parliamentary elections. we have seen it will lead to a good decision this is then sure is real because readers cannot buy in any meetings or e.p. be heard. and it doesn't refer. to do anything to be easy to eat the parliamentary group there are probably about feeders couldn't be sort of. decisions off duty. debt or blame was on the ball and that means that during their suspension conflicts or sure there are factions. into a future. forty year war crime sentence given to

a former bosnian serb leader has been extended by a un court rather than carried it has now been sentenced to life behind bars for his role in the civil war that gripped the former republic of yugoslavia in the one nine hundred ninety s. five judges upheld the verdicts given in twenty sixteen for the mass killings of civilians in the conflict carried it argued that there was no evidence of him committing the crimes are now seventy three years old carriage 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 which is now the capital of bosnia and herzegovina the appeals court now confirmed his guilt in what's been described as the worst massacres since world war two including the srebrenica massacre which left thousands dead in one thousand nine hundred five. the yugoslav was 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 face it 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 in the one 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. procedural

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 to the north the docs church in a cemetery burned to the ground. over all despite much evidence of war crimes conducted similar tenuously by different forces the cia eventually declared said militants were responsible for ninety percent of all crimes including genocide. to niger 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. nato air campaign conducted a number of operations one to mine the military capability over the boat. to this day the u.n. special court is still investigating war crime cases from the home flicked we

discussed want characters increased sentence could mean for the balkan region with belgrade based european studies research stuff and got rich 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 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 into were from the search site and sort of more all the political leaders were trials and convicted while the undersides were not there. the president of brazil has become known as the trump of the tropics for both the

likeness in his person and his policies so it was perhaps a little surprise that john paulson oros first official for a visit so him touch down in the united states this week and the real donald trump was keen to get their relationship off to a solid stuff. 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. more 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 shirt swap. and.

this is the u.s. national team and so that's an honor to give that to you thank you very much but are. trying to give us a narrow victory see with paper tape content i'm howling. out as postman oracular trump legit you're saying and. 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 a white short a printer some paper and good and. then if you want some good news then doomsday has apparently been delayed some fact

checking by news agencies exposed flaws in claims made by us democrats that there was just over a decade left to save the earth from global warming as a leap to trying to recall. even back when t.v.'s look like that kids cartoons would portray those saving us from pollution as. as superheroes i am captain of the. sierra today you just can't be a successful democrat and presidential hopeful without being a bit of captain planet democrats be like how do i sound cool and make republicans look bad at the same time. thank god there is climate change the scientists are absolutely unanimous on this that we have no more than twelve years to take incredibly bold action on this crisis what the intergovernmental panel on climate change say is that we have twelve years twelve years and we're like

the world is going to end in twelve years if we don't address climate change why this kerry deadline of twelve years a few months ago u.n. environmental experts put together yet another alarming report showing the earth is continuing to heat up it's bad for the planet and everyone who lives on it some interpret it the following way experts say that we have until twenty thirty to avoid catastrophe the world has little more than a decade time is running out to prevent global warming and he says the time's up andrea that the world has to do something we're reaching the cliff edge a little faster quite a bit faster and so it snowballed into a big trendy protest children have the impression their generation could be doomed . that we have twelve years to turn this around but suddenly there's that hoops moment the associated press checks what those who want to run for the

white house after say for facts what was it that mr o'rourke said again the scientists are absolutely unanimous on this that we have no more than twelve years so a.p. actually got in touch with the scientists the panel did not say we have twelve years left to save the world this has been a persistent source of confusion the report never said we only have twelve years left well have a look at what they wrote on some liberal websites after the a.p. piece came out that's right on climate and the a.p. fact check is wrong it's the a.p. this is incorrect about climate change. oh sure how can a democrat candidate get something wrong especially when his party essentially chose to rely on the so-called green new deal ahead of the election it's a set of proposals to address climate change you just can't lead down your next

generation of voters as a matter of faith and belief by guys like like bedo and others who a walk out and say the world is going to end in twelve years and not receive any pushback and there's no laughter there's no one going now you've got to be kidding me there's no one standing up to them and say you've clearly lost your mind which you have are a bunch of coreligionists of the room nodding in going yes it's terrible it lets do something elections and in this country anyway are not about convincing middle they're about turning out your base and keeping the other guy's votes home and if you want to turn out your base and you're a leftist candidate preaching about climate change and how the other side is determined to see us all die horribly that's going to do get the job done for you. so there you have it don't have. news for now crosstalk digs into the revelations that some of the rich and famous in the us and buying their kids' college places and that's next only.

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loven the wealthy in america decided we're up playing anymore we're going to just grab as much as we can of the cash out there in the system and put it you know offshore and that's why there's not twenty two trillion offshore and so there you battle of credit in the system shrunk 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 yachts versus the have nots decided you know we're going to put that more offshore so they just keep trying 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 restless.

hello and welcome to crossfire or all things considered i'm peter lavelle most of us are talk and believe we live in a society based on merit and equal justice the varsity blues college admissions scandal inform us that both aren't true the rich and privileged can buy access to their kids at the expense of families who are hardworking and honest is the idea of merit debt. crosstalk in the status of society i'm joined by my guest lionel in new york he is a legal analyst in the news decoder and lionel media dot com in washington we have

remington greg he is counsel for civil justice and consumer rights at public.