to russia little. men they know is bad wolf. facebook polls but global internet rules run for governments to play a more active role in regulating its. comedian follows a man's lenski lead to the polls in the first round of ukraine's presidential elections and so far he's taken thirty percent of the vote also this down. to the. police in the u.s. really is a body com video of the fatal shooting of a black american rapper it was find on twenty five times all stopped in his car.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with mean the top story this hour governments are being urged to play a more active role in policing the internet as facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg calls for more regulation online he says he wants mechanisms post in place to reduce the amount of harmful content on social media platforms he's also calling for measures that will help to ensure the integrity of elections protect users personal data longs the. radical departure from the original vision he had for facebook. i'm jewish and there's a set of people who deny the holocaust is right i find that deeply offensive but it's the end of the day i don't believe that our platform should take that down because i think that there are things the different people get wrong we don't check what people say before they say it and frankly i don't think society should want us

to freedom means you don't have to ask for permission first and that by default you can say what you want this is really about our mission and our philosophy not about just kind of some short term business decision i really very deeply believe that we are best serving the world and best delivering on our mission to connect everyone by continuing to push in in these environments and push for as much expression as possible. who would have thought that it could come to this face book begging governments to tame the wild wild web to 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'm 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 in 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 me. less interested in good intentions and more concerned about bad press and profit but hey who knows he talks so pretty. by updating the rules for the internet we can preserve what's best about it the freedom for people to express themselves 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 four of the thick pages including the now were taken down for no reason other than pressure from pro-war think tank and i'll leave the report from fianna the messages are slick filled with graphics with grand. young left leaning americans getting news from social media and the videos have been viewed tens of millions of times billions of times thank you apparently it's all for you your freedom your safety 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 and millions of enemies. investigative journalist dave

lindorff believes monks' like a book though was looking out for 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. with most of the votes counted comedian followed him as the landscape is leading the polls in the first round of ukraine's

presidential election so far as one thousand percent of the vote on there's likely to be at the guards the incumbent president petro poroshenko later this month and the second loans. this is ukraine where anything can happen during the elections disses a country that went through two revolutions in the course of just ten years and the nation right now it is fair to say is sick and tired of the familiar faces from the

old political elite and the liberals and then the comedian who has already dug himself ziska president well indeed has never taken part in any kind of election but has long been a politician already and the sense that a great deal of his humor was always about the active political elite. and we didn't know any. and you can use this law he had to. give if you could use that using would you. please. which is. a doozy what you'll. see in my eyes. we don't know whether he'd planned it or

not but a few years ago damer zelinsky began starring in his own sitcom where he played the part of an ordinary teacher of history at school who all of a sudden became the president of the country what went wrong for petro poroshenko. was this expected or well first of all we still have to be fair there is going to be the runoff so he must still come out on top but experts are saying that his chances are decreasing but it is very important to remember how petro poroshenko got into power that happened as a result of the revolution the nation one to a country without poverty without corruption probably a country that's part of nato or the european union and the most vital thing a country without civil war and portion called failed to achieve any of that yes there were some other minor team and to be fair for example ukrainians can now go

to the european union without visas managed to give independence to the cranium orthodox church from moscow but he kept on going on with this anti russian rhetoric promises to bring crimea back let's take a listen to some of that. we were bringing crimea we were three of those men and women who found themselves in the illegal turn of the tree we will bring ukrainian marines to we do not get them for one second. but it really seems given the results that we're getting the numbers that we're getting that people weren't really buying it so loosely people want to win the change this wishes the younger people veteran. she was the voting she was in the top three of this what forty people develop my own bitterly disappointed vote for her well first of all for a long time she was the symbol of ukrainian opposition she was definitely expected

to challenge her to core shango for years while he was incumbent president and then three months ago selenski came out and said i'm running and i guess most of the votes were taken from yulia timoshenko again we can't predict out all what's going to happen in that case this is ukraine as i've said where politics can really turn wild. both r.t. think california have released body count video of the police shooting of american rapper willie mccoy and apparently shows that the musician was a flea the time and next video contains disturbing images and sounds. like your. own. story.

the incident took place in february the police were initially called to check on mccoy's well being fixed officers short 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 claims. the big picture now police in the united states killed more than a thousand people in twenty eighteen most of the officers involved did not go on to face criminal charges african-americans and latinos are statistically more likely to be shot by the police than other groups michel gross from communities but against police brutality ses the officers in the early mccoy 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 the roughly twenty five times nobody knows for sure and then they started screaming one of your hands put your hands the man was dead and the fact that they chose to wake you up with bullets and no course children is completely wrong there can be no other explanation that you know i understand but they were maybe a little spooked by the fact that he had a loaded gun in his law it didn't have a clip of it but the bottom line is that you know they should have attempted to wake you first in the united states you know an extremely small fraction and i believe these police officers should be charged with marcus. so i think the united states can't wait for the u.k. to leave the european union the u.s. national security adviser john bolton promises that person will be top of the queue for trade when the divorced 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 but tough u.s. negotiating objectives say britain will be treated like any other trading partner meaning it has to provide access for u.s. agricultural products mission also remove barriers and allow access in full for american medicines and is a growing alarm in britain at the possibility of the post breaks that deal with the us people fear it will open the door to chlorine wash chicken and hormone punt beef and raise the costs of medicine and the national health service well people in london what they thought of the offer 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 u.s. that's never we were never going to be a negotiate from a point of straight and we would call even the brics it from

a point of strength we should be striking deals wherever we can and if we're going to be prosperous that the us would definitely get more from not do it than we do we don't currently either want to hormones or 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 me a spokesperson for the prime minister trying to calm fears saying the u.k. is not going to lower its food standards but former conservative party m.p. matthew gordon banks told us he's concerned that this disorderly briggs's could result in food and medicine shortages. we're a very tiny country that small of the many us states. i'm surprised that there's such a fast in the united states at the moment i'm not even sure whether we're going to be leaving the e.u. at the present moment in time our politicians in u.k.

are making a real mess of the brics process assuming we were to leave this summer we're going to be really struggling to fix our sign a lot of trade deals with other countries in the united states. and i personally am very worried that we may end up having food shortages shortages of prescribed medication and drugs and all sorts of other things. after the break venezuela southpaw claims leader has received a less than friendly reception in a trip to a working class suburb in caracas we have that story and more after the break.

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and. welcome back and international china fertility clinics has been slammed for helping hundreds of australian couples choose the gender of their children the procedure is banned in australia itself and was carried out in the united states outrage over the latest move toward designer babies the world's first genetically engineered baby as you get down the slippery slope of does genetically altered designer babies includes designer babies. with the gene editing procedure clinics can alter a child's d.n.a. but i loused them to change physical features such as eye color and even cure such an illness is a ban on editing human embryos is a stop in twenty nine countries like around the globe the us too has restrictive

rules on research and gender selection is not prohibited scientists blind highly explains concerns surrounding genetic engineering the risks serves are so hard right now. that you know that's that's why the large american jew nearing has been banned for humans because in animals you get you get situations where you get say thirty going to rio's that are considered good enough to implant and out of those you get two or three that can survive for a few weeks and one that is considered by we're just on the on the air edge of. being ready to do that in a way that is reliable enough. for human use human rights lawyer jennifer brazing and money harass the politician and activist exchanged views on the 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 more is that going to create say a parent paid for something in the eye color wasn't quite what the parents wanted and now the 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 a 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. in a specific way in the science community and

a parrot head and in the family system as a whole. video has emerged online purportedly showing a group of protesters attacking a convoy carrying venezuela's south proclaimed leader one quite oh the opposition figure head was reportedly on his way to speak at a rally in a deprived part of caracas was i was according to local media reports military police officers who were loyal to president maduro can be seen in a video protecting one gliders convoy they held insults at the country's self declared leader and demanded he leave the most populous district in caracas from twenty years is pointed out that the irony of go i don't being protected by the bolivarian national guard take another look i was. i

was. i thought even a canadian province of key back are seeking to ban government employees from wearing religious symbols of such as the islamic headscarf and the jewish kept up it's important for us that. all people in authority positions don't wear religious life i don't think a lot of people feel that in a free society we should be utilizing discrimination of our citizens based on religion the proposed ban which in recent decades has been promoting secularism would have a public workers in positions of authority that would include judges prosecutors police officers and school teachers we heard from a citizen journalist and a muslim woman his plans to become a teacher in canada are now under threat. we're already having a lot of manifestation resending petitions we're talking to politicians lawyers so that this can even come into law

a lot of movements are going on right now so that disc can become a lot because it's it's going to set a very bad precedent however if this does become a lot then a lot of religious minorities will leave the province and will have to find more safe and inclusive place where they can work as they want to live as they want to know the state and seeing 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 private schools. but if you teach in a public school we represent the state you have to wear and you really you don't want the person who you are interacting with. that maybe you have some prejudice religion and religion this has to be something that belongs to personal fear is not

part of the state. well we don't think we love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so don't get in touch by following guys on social media my colleague colleen gray he'll be here with the latest at the top without. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something i want to. let you go right to be for us this is what the four three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters about how. they're sitting. in a world of big partisan movie 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 smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. when we all make this manufacture consent to step into the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent.

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grano it was hard but you gotta make the best of how you. come up and live so i mean having graduate and i showed up. my mother was a crack she used to do crack when i was a kid or when she had me or whatever she's she don't deliver no more my dad he was like a just a thief so you know i got like what i needed when i was a baby but i had a bad childhood from first grade i was a cool kid i mean i really was a first grade to middle with us when i left my childhood which was bad and love with somebody else i was a family my mom's friend and from like. every since i left the house that i like and i went to another person and i swear i started doing bad stuff you know

just being sneaky and i jot down a line down the remember i like tenth grade so when i'm on say you don't have to go to school if you don't want to so i said i'm down that never wore my school and i never want to go back to school i guess is in my blood so. i mean i was always. just that big kids and i always wanted to be better so. i mean my mind's made up i want to do this for the rest of my life so you know i mean it's what i'm.

the. treat elderly people most of them have like them in jail or marcus and disease or some kind as a sickness where they can't help with their self so i have to help them was standing in the clothing and feeding and things like that. and a lot of the people i've never met before so it gets kind of scary going to new houses and things like that but i guess you get kind of you so after a while. i got out that bill for a while and i let me try to resolve the how that does and then by rizal i just felt like i was another employee like i didn't make a difference in anyone's lives that's when i decided to get my nursing degree i've been doing this for four years now. i have a. nursing degree it was.