thank you. thank you thanks. in the week's top stories organizers claim one million people marched in london demanding another referendum on brakes in europe france the u.k. two week extension to the break the deadline after its prime minister fails to get support for her divorce plan. a bombshell report claims a group of american mercenaries illegally traveled to haiti to help the country's president consolidate power and move eighty million dollars we speak to its all for . many of them true priority was facebook to slow to stop the spread of footage of a mass shooting in new zealand as we debate the issue. if i put certain stories about certain political issues i am shadow bed so. what my concern is when they

continue to ban these kinds of things can ban this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shall. i say join me this evening watching the weekly here on r.t. to mash. up to a million people marched across london on saturday calling for a second briggs it referendum that's the number that's been given by its organizers along with the public members of parliament also attended the protest the rally comes after e.u. leaders agreed to give the u.k. short extension to the withdrawal that's just so far it's got us nowhere it's got that nothing stop the international laughingstock i with them and she needs to listen to what might be said i feel really passionately that we really really let down our friends here in the room we need state that i believe the majority nowadays it's. been you people put this up for this break didn't even have a plan and never had a plan it's

a shame that we're in this mess but. i don't think there's anyone in the labor party at the top of the labor party was really taking control of. of the of the brits that fight as well so the prime minister is now been given a short extension of two weeks if she fails to get a deal through but that will be moved to may twenty second if she does however the pm has warned that she will put off the vote until she can be guaranteed enough support in westminster and that throws briggs into further disarray. do if you haven't done so it greased an extension until the. twentieth of april.

boot. to the yes. on to the very. according to our poll. there's still empty and that means the ticket a lot of space. it was certainly a long nights of discussion debate decision making and chopping and changing plans multiple times at the e.u. council summit and finally a decision that was reached officially and that was an extension of article fifty until the twenty second of may conditional of course of to resume a passing up plan through the house of commons should that fail if the e.u. council has provided for a further extension of the twelfth of april for the u.k.

to come forward and come up with a plan and a process of what exactly to do next that also the sort of course if they do intend to participate in the european parliamentary elections something which a would be rather pointless given their leaving the european union and be something that's the reason why he has said that would be almost a red rose an easy one or a unanimous one at least from the very start would be misleading and they were quite different positions on the e.u. council countries such as belgium and france president micron for one playing hardball stating that a no deal breaks it was there on the table others such as angular merkel playing a more conciliatory tone calling for more understanding of the you kate. we discuss the issue with political consultant plus my morality who says that every step in the break that process is making the situation even more complicated when briggs it was first announced as an idea as a concept and there was no meat on the board as to what the concept of what the

process actually would mean and we start off in a place with such uncertainty there's no surprise us to the situation room now so are less the identity of briggs it is made clear the destruction is a stalling methods will only continue i think the sentiment right now in parliament is that. it's almost an impossibility of this deal going through and if it does go through it will go through under very pressured measures which means peace in parliament who won't vote with what they believe is to be the best way for forward but will do it because the time pressures are so tight which almost holds parliament to run them saying this is the only deal we have and you better put it through because you're certainties are too big and too widespread to even imagine. it's being claimed seven american mercenaries tried to help haiti's president consolidate power by scoring a presidential aide carrying eighty million dollars allegedly arrived in the

caribbean country amid anti-government protest they were arrested a day later but then released without charge. just wanted mr madoff to given up these men or mercenaries he says if he were here to attack part of the executive branch of the government. you see those reports stick due to privacy considerations we're unable to comment

further came alive spread the story for news website the intercept. they were apparently going to transfer eighty million dollars out of the petrel caribbean account in haiti in the bank to another account which would be under the control of president joked malmo we as the petro caribbean account required authorization if you will from. his then prime minister nuri say or and the bank president john dubois so this was apparently their mission they entered haiti many of them without stamping their passport without going through immigration without going to customs they come in with weapons which is a violation not just of u.s. law but haitian law pressure from the u.s.

embassy had them released in a completely illegal manner i spent a week in haiti speaking to haitian police officials justice department officials people. with any connection who had any knowledge at all of this operation secure it disclose our source the. requested anonymity and so we have to protect our source however one of the mercenaries a retired navy seal disputes that version of events chris elfman says that they were hired as security for businessmen and never actually met with the presidential aide in an oddity to instagram post he said that they were pullman's in a public fight between the haitian president and prime minister u.s. senator marco rubio has met with the haitian president so the situation in the country demonstrated sharpton corruption and blame the current president is sworn in on a pledge to increase employment and improve living conditions. certain irritant

or certain combustibility to the situation. they really arrived on the last of the latest spasm of. demonstrations the prime minister in fact when he was voted out by the deputies was in front of the senate. answering for what happened with these mercenaries so i think yes the whole mercenary story has played a role one from the questions everybody had about it. that our story has come out and basically. torn off the lives or pulled back the curtain on this story i think that this is going to create even more outrage and more consternation.

on the part of the haitian people. thousands of people gathered in the city of christchurch new zealand for a vigil to commemorate fifty people killed in a shooting massacre earlier this month following attacks on two mosques the government's proposed tough new gun laws all types of assault rifles and semiautomatic weapons will be banned a lot of pass will come into force on april eleventh so immediate changes are already in effect with gun shops now banned from selling these types of weapons and there will be a buyback scheme as part of an amnesty and the prime minister says that the cost of that is the price that simply must be paid. the suspected attacker published a manifesto a few hours prior to the shooting describing his motives and plants. this

is one of new zealand's darkest days. in the shoot a stream that attack via facebook and the video quickly spread something facebook has been criticized for especially given how quickly it can crack down on certain types of political content useless prime minister demanded answers from social media platforms over the streaming and sharing of the terror attack i would call on our social media platforms of all variety to demonstrate the kind of responsibility that both lead to these have been and that includes stars who perpetuate their messages in the aftermath there is a lot of work that needs to be down. or facebook responded saying that the video didn't trigger its warning systems it has introduced steps to improve the way that

it combat's hate speech we put the issue of the debate. i respectfully submit that when you show violence a good human being it's a form of pornography we have to as a society say no facebook you can do much better for kids for people who would see this not necessarily because it would inspire the next shooting which you very well could because these losers need some form of acclimation out of just human decency without bringing in the government as laws and penalties and we're hearing from officials government officials from the prime minister in new zealand talking about preventing future attacks like this and then going on to censoring when this attack happens how in the world does that prevent this attack we're spending so much time talking about we can have videos like this with as or so or think it might lead to more rather than answering questions that need to be asked i mean one of the main problems on the scene here is that we continue to put band-aids on gunshot wounds and we need to stop that we need to

stop putting band-aids on we need to stop saying let's just stop everybody from that it doesn't get rid of x. rated movies should it come down immediately yes should this be kept from the public yes take it down i want facebook and others abroad to have exactly the you know whatever and. they have we're talking to you now and you're telling me about t.v. do you know they're talking about arguing people will hardly blinded from these sightings will fellow lying dead but you're not talking about how will this prevent it nobody's talking about provide to the question that should be banned them say yes and what i want facebook to do is if i put certain stories about certain political issues i am shadow bad so no fast and i want them to use that technology in their genius to figure out wait a minute we're having somebody right now people are being killed this is going to come down from our platform what my concern is when we continue to ban these kinds of things can ban this kind of stuff that's only going to perpetuate shadel ban and

that's something i agree should never happen but we're giving. subjected our and authority to social media platforms to know and that that is allowed so when to hurt us later we don't know who they're going to not like it's all subjective no matter what kind of computer algorithm at the end of the day it will be subjective now listen dr burke do me a favor if you see somebody shooting and killing people shut it down or talk about it later don't have a debate do you think that maybe we're giving one person die die die die die die the right to automatically and who's to say whether this could one day be done today people being shot dead whether this might include war coverage. how many people would support mean that while as we're debating this there's some kid somewhere which you ever talk about watching this seeing real time slaughter or the families of these people or whatever of this is violent pornography yes this is

horrible that i never want to see this i never want my children to see this i don't want any person to be subject to this kind of violence it is horrible obscene material these publications but this is what i have seen governments cannot stop this these companies cannot stop this people who post something positive about donald trump are being taken off of social media because of social media heads and managers and so we want them to ban other things instead of us and that is my main thing is that they can't they will not. so they march the twentieth anniversary since nato still to this bombing campaign against yugoslavia well nato claimed was a humanitarian operation to help the country separatists and local saw a regime change campaign in which thousands were killed. became devolved in march of one thousand nine hundred nine after sectarian tensions between serbians and cost of an albanian stone violent alliance backed the latter without any u.n. mandate. for almost three months straight leaving many parts of serbia devastated.

the sunday people took to the streets of belgrade the former yugoslavia capital they condemned the nato bombing that ended service rule over territory many who gathered still view is that nation's historic. correspondent alex kotlowitz has more on the anniversary of the conflict. this was serbia twenty years ago. on march twenty fourth one thousand nine hundred nine. needle campaign against the small balkan nation began i was there at the time so i'm going to take you through a bit of a personal journey at the time i was living here serbia's third largest city which seemed to be a million miles away from the battles in kosovo that very evening i was chilled out on the couch watching t.v.

with my dog when suddenly the earth started shaking and the sky turned a bright red warning. after the first explosion ran down the stairs trying to get out of the house not knowing where the next floor was going to hit. and second i stopped at the store. looked up in the sky and there was a cruise missile flying over the house over there seconds later another explosion. that tomahawk missile hit a target in the hills above nobody saw it was one of fifty five u.s. cruise missiles used against yugoslavia that night after by hundreds of fixed wing bombing operations well needle feel to destroy most military targets it was a fact. when it came to killing civilians this is the city of nice in southern serbia it's the location of one of the most serious bombings of the nato campaign event happened may seventh nine hundred ninety nine cluster bombs dropped fifteen people dead in the middle of the day one of those bombs killed

a twenty seven year old woman who was seven months pregnant. did you see that it happened on the griddle it's a bridge on april twelfth one thousand nine hundred nine needle please targeted a civilian passenger tree not once but twice at least nine people died in the incident some say the number could be as high as sixty today the bridge where the attack occurred has been rebuilt walking around the site which has become a monument to the dead you can't help but reflect on the horror that happened here . nato claimed that its actions were motivated by quote numerous human rights violations in kosovo. says that this airstrike campaign achieved its goal which was to halt any military activity and repression in the region but let's bring in

a guest now dr take aim yugoslavia with a team of u.s. doctors and nurses in march of one thousand nine hundred ninety nine good to have you all feel interested to get your so reflections and memories of what took place then when you were on the roots do you did you have any idea of the extent of the bombing campaign that was going to take place. well. we had made a strategic decision knowing that the paris peace talks were going to make the mission that we had previously planned six months before. the peace talks were going to be undertaken we would be safe in belgrade for at least two weeks and unfortunately i really misjudged what was going to happen a do you actually recall that the first day of the bombing this day twenty years ago. how involved. yes actually that we were at the mother and child hospital when we were operating

on children with heart disease and we were asked by the u.s. embassy in belgrade the previous weekend to to evacuate with them but the team took a vote and we had two critical kids that we needed operate on the next week so most of the team member stayed. in one of those one of those children earlier that morning and that was sort of the second child around four thirty in the afternoon the air raid signal started going off not long after sundown and the bombs started dropping within a few minutes after that we were at a very critical juncture when operating on this child and i looked up from the child chest and said listen you know. my country for whatever reason is bombing your country tonight a number of your countrymen are going to die but this child of theirs on the table that is ten days old is not going to died and i were going to take this child

safely downstairs and then all of you can go home to your families. i want to jail that. that was one of the most horrific nights. that i've experienced. kind of the children's intensive care unit is on the top floor and is a balcony that goes about seventy percent of the way around the building. and i went outside with my coffee and i just don't want your previous guest say that they saw a cruise missile well i saw more than one that night and i saw a number of fighter bombers as well. a number of our team members watched belgrade. all through the evening and. you know i've not experienced anything like that really of the magnitude before so. we felt we were in a safe place being in the children's hospital indeed it turned out that we were but

. we watched all night that night and all night the next night but from the hotel. bill appreciate your time sir very interested to get your perspective dr phil novack my guest dr who worked in yugoslavia with a team of u.s. doctors and nurses in march one thousand nine hundred. thank you. and to the news now google had a measurable impact on the twenty eight hundred mid-term elections in the united states there is a bias search results that is the finding of new research in three key congressional races in southern california the author of the study plans to present it in full next month and the study analyzed around fifty thousand election related searches and web pages linked to them three search engines were compared to google being and yahoo was behind the research concluded that in the three districts in focus more than thirty five thousand undecided voters may have been persuaded to to give their backing to potentially apply to millions when you consider the scene

across the country this research is not the first made by this author against google however the tech giant is de mint dismissed his previous finding saying that it's algorithms are politically blind we have never really ranked search results on any topic including elections to manipulate political sentiment moreover we do not make any ranking tweaks which is specific to elections or political candidates period we always strive to provide our users with the most accurate relevant answers to their queries. well who better to speak to than the actual author of that study dr robert epstein senior research psychologist at the american institute for behavioral research and technology joins me on the line great to have you on dr epstein google completely disagrees with the i should say first of all they they said there's no way this this can be true but you disagree is it really possible the results of google searches can influence the way people vote. well there's no

question about that i've been doing randomized controlled studies for more than six years measuring quite precisely the impact that they can have on people's thinking and behavior and purchases and elections but this monitoring project that i conducted that this shows beyond any question that there was significant liberal bias in google search results but not in search results from being and yahoo unfortunately about ninety percent of the searches conducted on google not big and yahoo so. google really is the deciding factor. in close races in fact we calculate that upwards of twenty five percent of the national elections in the world are being decided and then you give an example of how some body might be influenced by you go on the internet you go on google what

kind of things will people searching for when you stories. well we were we did this very very carefully we had a field agents focusing on three congressional races in california which were very hotly contested races and republican districts and we gave to these field agents about five hundred election related search terms each one had different search terms for different districts where there are different issues of course and the point is we we we simply looked at what have what kind of search results they received when they were conducting election related searches and we found a very consistently that on google they ended up with search results savoring liberals and favorite liberal news sources and it was quite a dramatic effect and by the way that disclaimer of that denial that you just

played from google you have to listen very very very carefully to what they're saying they're saying they don't rearrange their very careful you know in their their denials we don't i've never claimed they really rank anything i'm just reporting on what they actually show people and what they show people is dramatically biased anough and there are two thousand and eighteen elections to have shifts shifted upwards of seventy eight point two million votes spread across different races in the u.s. and twenty eighteen come we established any certainty just how much him fluence what people say in their internet searches what impact it has upon who they vote for. well yes that's what the scientific research has been all about and we know that among people who are undecided on an issue if we show them a search results that shape or one cause or favor one candidate like brags that for example among people who are undecided that easily can shift twenty percent or more

of them in the direction of the bias upwards up to eighty percent shifts in some demographic groups people trust algorithmic output they trust google they think it's because it's generated by a computer that they don't see the human hand they think it's impartial and objective and their opinions change so we can measure that quite precisely now next by national elections and in multiple countries and so we know for sure that that is occurring now around the world without people's knowledge ok let's wrap things up there unfortunately great to speak to the author of the study don't robot at the un is my guest senior research psychologist at the american institute for behavioral research and technology thank you. if you. are not is it we are out of time a back with updates on our top stories for you. join

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