you know as bad wolf. global internet rules and for governments to play a more active role in regulating it. leads the polls in the first round of ukraine's presidential elections so far he's taken thirty percent of the. national fertility clinic is slammed for helping couples choose the gender of the children many with the procedures. are not talking about getting. a car and be able to design your car we're talking about a human life a child a baby if this is a medically necessary procedure for her to have her child.

good morning is just turned ten am this monday the first of april here in moscow. international this thirty minute update starting with this story then the internet needs more regulation and government should play an active role in policing it says facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg he wants rules to cover areas like harmful content election integrity and privacy. reports. who would have thought that it could come to this face book begging governments to tame the wild wild web the police censor and control it to think it all began innocently people want to go on the internet check out their friend someone at the website that offers that i am talking about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online it was so simple then

a place for teenagers to share their relationship status for friends to share pictures announce parties keep in touch but somewhere along the line facebook group dark gathering and selling people's personal information bots fake news election meddling censorship and suspensions targeting innocent people at times and the videos streams mass murders the new zealand shooting rapes snuff videos it seemed facebook c.e.o. did nothing but apologize now it was a big mistake and i was a mistake and it was my mistake and i'm really sorry that this happened and i'm sorry and i'm sorry for it it seems zuckerberg is tired of keeping facebook his own platform clean he now wants governments to do it ministries to police

the net with rules and regulations. the saying goes the route to hell is paved with good intentions though something tells and about bad press and profit but hey who knows he talks so pretty by updating the rules for the ins and. remarkable ease actually saying that government censorship politicians deciding what you can and cannot do or say will somehow make the internet freer when has that ever happened before in fact one of the scandals facebook was embroiled in was its wholesale cleansing of pages and news feeds it didn't like in full was alex jones even

for a while artie's math ik media all for vatican pages including the now were taken down for no reason other than pressure from pro-war think tanks and i'll leave the report from the hand the messages are slick filled with graphics with graham. young left leaning americas getting news from social media and the videos have been viewed tens of millions of times billions of times thank you. so here it is a corporate billionaire with dirty hands asking politicians to censor and regulate the web you don't get five hundred million friends without making a few enemies he once said but it seems heading towards having just a few friends or to this investigative journalist dave lindorff believes mark zuckerberg is simply looking after his own interests. wolves are getting closer regulation of his company there's a lot of anger and it's

a growing call to break up facebook to regulate facebook and i think what's everybody's doing is recognizing that something is going to happen and rather than face it alone he wants to. call for regulation of all his competitors to because if he's the only one who's regulated he gets broken up the company gets smaller has less power. and to get hurt in the competition with larger entities like google he's trying to shape it but i don't think his argument holds a lot of water that is that he's been making all along that somehow facebook is just a free speech issue. focused on ukraine now with more than half of votes come said kmita in selenski is leading the polls in the first round of the presidential election this so far he's won thirty percent of the vote and will be up there for against incumbent president petro poroshenko later this month in what will be the

second round. was. recently quoted joined in the studio by if a train has been following this big surprise in all that he's doing so well from so if this morning this t.v. . kevan i'll have to tell you that i don't have an answer to that because it is a massive surprise on the one hand that a comedian is winning so much against the incumbent president but at the same time it was predicted after all the unofficial fall polls that happened before the

election first of all we have to think and remember how petro poroshenko came to power that was a result of the my dad revolution and he won his election there was no second round in two thousand and fourteen when ukrainians were desperate for radical changes in the country they wanted ukraine without corruption ukraine without impoverished people a country that could be a part of nato or the european union and also that's the most important thing a country where there's no civil war but petro poroshenko failed to achieve any of these goals yes there were some minor victories we have to be fair in terms of that at least he promised that ukrainians would be able to go to europe without visas in fact they can stay in the european union for ninety days without getting one permanent yes he did it chief independence for the so-called ukrainian orthodox

church and now they're independent from moscow patriarchate all that resentment by the people all this time future winner in the first round selenski as you mentioned is a comedy show there's a few jokes about petro poroshenko he made in the previous years. yeah. yeah. we. can mourn was. we did you know. yeah. i. well. it wasn't just petro poroshenko who was his victim in all these comedy serious and fact he was pretty much attacking the entire ukrainian political elite but here's something. where he played the role of

a future president who used to be just a schoolteacher let's watch bits of the trailer about sitcoms. but. now a real surreal twist wouldn't it the way the fictions become. not that it's up and yet it's not done just yet because it's going to go to a second round isn't it well it sounds like a perfect plan to become president but at the same time who knows three months ago when we saw the early voting yesterday just off the pole station stations open at eight o'clock in the morning you machine could turned up an hour late and she veteran of the political scene but a vote for her isn't it. see has been in the korean politics for more than two

decades but it's definitely a bad move for her because she used to be considered the number one favorite she has so much experience in a way she was the symbol of the opposition in ukraine after serving a jail term under victory in a cold which but with all that resentment when it comes to petro poroshenko she was expected to win but then there you have an selenski was the one who clinched all the protest votes and now she is in third place however she's saying she's ready to challenge this because. those approval ratings were so low many people many experts have said the only way he could get into the second round was by reading the vote she's confident that the vote is being rigged so let's see if she can get all that support into some sort of street protests that's what happened during the modern revolution if that happens again it will be the story repeating itself says volatile places that comes to politics the west favorite officially of course.

before the revolution it was always the russian capital and the pro western candidate competing now there is no such thing and it seems that all the support poroshenko used to have by those in the u.s. those in europe he's lost it because no one was voicing clear support for him this time ok the vote still continuing the actual result definitely officially in ten days times our own. speed on that watch it closely. let's national chain of fertility clinics is being slammed for helping hundreds of a straight couples choose the gender of the children the procedures birth or the story or itself so it was go to the united states and. outrage over the latest move toward designer babies the world's first genetically engineered baby and you get down the slippery slope of does genetically altered designer babies includes designer babies. but with the gene editing procedure or eugenics clearly it's

curious that mila says a ban on the editing human embryos is established in nineteen countries around the globe the u.s. to us restrictive rules on research but gender selection is not prohibited scientists brought highly explains concerns surrounding genetic engineering. the risks are so high right now know that you know that's that's why the wired genetic engineering has been banned for humans because in animals you get you get situations where you get say thirty and rio's that are considered good enough to implant in and out of those you get two or three that can survive for a few weeks and one that is considered viable or just on the on the air of being being ready to do that in a way that is reliable enough. for human use even rights lawyer jennifer braden and money her last are

a polish politician and activist exchange views only issue. we're not talking about getting a vehicle or buying a car and be able to design your car we're talking about a human life a child a baby and what this opens up to the danger that this opens it up to where society now things that they can basically just pick and choose i mean it even said that the science was going towards a way not just of eye color and of gender but also of skin color of race and so while we could be afraid that there might be another area in society out there actually i have a lot of mixed feelings about this issue because you know on one hand a lot of this genetic testing has been used for women who can't have children i guess they do the genetic modification. and then in that case she's able to have a baby the other hand is what does open it up to and hand spins for you have this concept of designer babies not only does that create

a dangerous precedent for motherhood as an example or for parenthood as an example but it's now glorified glorifying and placing his glorification so to speak on and on the baby's appearance at birth what not and how that child going to be forever shamed or living in shame that on the converse that the parent gets everything they paid for in the qualities of a child how is that child going to raise knowing that to treat others with respect and dignity based on their character and their personality because they're going to have been raised knowing you know we paid for you and we got you exactly the way we wanted you i don't want this issue of designer babies to come to fruition because i feel that would. it would essentially be what professor stephen hawkins argued that we're creating this super race which would add more inequality into the world but at the same time if this is a medically necessary procedure for a mom to have her child what's wrong with i just think the president this creates

is is very troubling is specifically in the science community and in parenthood and in the family system as a whole. and the conversation when it was ten fifteen in the morning this monday moscow time thanks for watching still ahead in the program off the break damning video evidence in the us with the police of shots of black rapper in the back story of that also a canadian province small's a ban on government employees wearing religious symbols now the controversy around that is a couple of the stories ahead. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past

each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. morning authorities california have released party cam video of the police shooting

of american rapper willie mccovey apparently shows that the musician was asleep at the time the next video contends disturbing images and sounds. excuse me were. there were. instances took place in february police were initially called to check on macos well being six offices shot him twenty five times claiming he leaned for his gun when he woke up in his car the video evidence suggests police did not try to wake him up something that his family also claim the big picture here police in the united states killed more than a thousand people in twenty eight most of the officers involved did not want to face criminal charges african-americans and latinos are statistically more likely

to be shot by the police and other groups and michelle cross from communities against police brutality told us the offices in the willie mccovey case should be charged with murder. it is in no way a best practice of police they should not have shot him and you know it was ridiculous they shot him twenty five times and then they roughly twenty five times nobody knows for sure and then they started screaming clip your hands put up your hands the man was dead and the fact that they chose to wake him up with bullets and of course kill him is completely wrong there can be no other explanation that race you know i understand that they were maybe a little spooked by the fact that he had it on a loaded gun in his law it didn't have a clip in it but the bottom line is that you know they should have attempted to wake him first in the united states you know an extremely far small fraction or

even of officers or even charged and then only less than a four of them are they did what they are charged we are demanding that police be prosecuted with the troggs or her create for the incident and i believe these police officers should be in charge of her as. she was united states can't wait for the u.k. to exit the european union national security adviser john bolton promises that britain will be top of the coup for trade when the divorce steel is done. people who worry about the u.k. crashing out of the european union that's the phrase they use they're going to crash right into the united states we're standing here waiting to make a trade deal britain will be at the top of the queue for us going to mean for the u.k. will tough u.s. negotiating objectives show britain will be treated like any other trading partner meaning it has to provide access for us a cultural products it should also remove barriers and allow access in full for american medicine's is that good or well there's growing alarm in britain at the

possibility of a post breaks a deal with the us because of this just a few of the things people fear it's going to open the door for instance to pull rain washed chicken and hormone pump beef raise the cost of medicine to the national health service because people wonder what they thought of the off i think a trade deal with america sounds awful there's no point in australia immediately leaving the e.u. and jumping straight into bed with the us that's never we were never going to be negotiate for point a straight and we call even negotiate brix it from a point of strength we should be striking deals wherever we can if we're going to be. the us would definitely get more from that deal with than we do i don't we don't create chick i don't want to hormones that might be you know they've got lower welfare standards for their food system for their medicines so that everything one of the reasons why i wouldn't go and live in america is because while the food is treat it would probably try to kill. the spokes person for the prime minister trying to calm fears saying the u.k.

is not going to lower its food standards for london mayor ken livingstone spoke to us he believes britain's weak position could lead to very serious consequences. our economy is at its lowest level of growth in years and investment in our economy is a lowest level since the end of the second world war all the uncertainty about bret's it means big businesses aren't investing in britain they are modernizing. our economy and we are just could be in a very weak position i effectively negotiation with america will be by it will be going slapping around like a little puppy dog just doing what we're told we will end up importing more american goods because we will be outside the you will be subject to the world trade organization rules which will mean a. quite bad increase in the prices of many of our food because the tariffs come. and that we're in we will we will be worse off there's no doubt. thirties in the

canadian province of quebec preparing to ban government employees from wearing religious symbols that is the islamic headscarf the job or the jewish kipper. it's important for us that. all people in the thirty position don't wear a religious sign i don't think a lot of people feel that in a free society we should be needed in my saying discrimination of our citizens based on religion the proposed ban in quebec covers public workers in positions of authority including school teachers were citizen journalist and also a muslim woman whose plans to become a teacher in canada are now under threat the. we're already having a lot of manifestation resending petitions we're talking to the titians lawyers so that this can even come into law a lot of movements are going on right now so that disk can become a lot because it's it's gonna set a very bad precedent however if this does become

a lot then a lot of religious minorities will leave the province and we'll have to find more safe an inclusive place where we can work as they want to live as they want to know this they can see well you know the state has to be secular you can wear headscarves wherever you want but if you represent a state like a police officer or a jar or a teacher in a public school because people teach in a private school it will be allowed but if you teach in a public school you represent the state you have to wear and you really have to sign you don't want the person who you are interacting with. that maybe you have some prejudice because religion or religion is supposed to be something that belongs to their personal fear is not part of the state. tests is it going clash with police in the venezuelan capital caracas demonstrators

to the streets against the coastal blackouts and water shield issues that hit the south american country. to the city and again bill barricades on main roads the opposition plays president with his inability to control the situation the government says the result of criminals by their opponents the president's nose to. russian kristie in order to try to deal with the crisis. and venezuela reels in the political troubles the us mainstream media is turning its focus to russia's president. vladimir putin has made a career of intervening abroad and seeing if the world lets him get away with it he did this in georgia when george w. bush was president then in crimea eastern ukraine and syria in barack obama's presidency now he's doing the same on donald trump's watch this time in america's

backyard in venezuela well these accusations came after russian military planes touched down in venezuela with their one hundred troops late last month according to moscow their presence in the country is allowed under a near two decades old agreement president trump though and other u.s. officials weren't satisfied by that and say that russia should leave venezuela or face the consequences. right here is that you now. see we'll see we'll see all options are out. just so you understand all options are on. syria's loss the than the people who's using the russians to support his desperate attempt to keep the venezuelan people from hearing into him president maduro calls for hands off on his way out while he invites security forces from cuba and russia so he and his cronies can keep plundering venezuela it is time for venezuelan institutions to stanford or sovereignty russia and cuba hands off and as well as mcadams is the executive director of the ron paul institute and thinks that

the u.s. doesn't have the right to point a finger at russia. well there's a reason why they call the wall street journal the war street journal because it is a rabbit the pro war the united states has some eight hundred military bases outside of its borders i think the russians may have a couple the u.s. has a global military empire and unfortunately is what keeps washington running it's what keeps the people inside the beltway very wealthy at the expense of the rest of the country so that is the issue would be united states of course just being a hypocrite as usual in the other issues the issue of solvency why can't a software in venezuela. ask for assistance from an ally the u.s. certainly has asked for assistance from its allies as a softened country and has come to be assistance of some of its allies have softened countries why is sovereignty only a one way street when it comes to washington. always so much more from. here in

moscow that's it for me kevin i was numb but with more in just over half an hour's time. but have. i. done. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they did accept it or reject it. so when you want to be president i'm sure. somehow i want to be

preached. to the right to be press that's like the full. three of the people. interested in the water. seemed wrong but i. just don't. mean. to say proud to stay active. and engaged with. the trail. went to find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the biggest political hoax in american history russia gate is almost a thing of the past briggs it on the other hand only seems to drop into deeper levels of purgatory and what is next for russia's relations with the west. talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow glenn days and he is a professor at the higher school of economics as well as author of russia's geo economic strategy for a greater eurasia and in brussels in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate any let me go to you first here i was look i don't usually read the washington post but someone sent me an article so i felt the blood .