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medium. in the first round of ukraine's presidential election so far he's taken thirty percent of the vote. for global internet rules and for governments to play a more active role in regulating its. police in the united states released a video of the fatal shooting of a black american rapper. twenty five times.
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monday evening in moscow i'm calling the r.t. newsroom in the russian capital with the news headlines this hour first for you ukraine is set for a second round of presidential runoff with almost all the votes counted from sunday's election comedian and political newcomer of a lot of his alinsky is well ahead in the polls with over thirty percent of the vote he'll face the incumbent president petro poroshenko who's trailing on just fifteen percent looking up why support for the current leader appears to have plummeted. they counted on him gave them all kind of help and thought he'd take the x. soviet republic somewhere new the result roughly eighty five percent of ukraine voters want to show petro poroshenko the door the western establishment is baffled for them choosing between someone as hated today as the chocolate king pershing co and funny guy all of them are zelinsky aka is a president is
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a tough one backing the winner of round one who has no political background at all is like opening pandora's box well look at who he's been destroying with jokes for years the names are all they're way behind him now how's that for a political background. we didn't know any. yeah you can use islam. but the. good is that you. know. i. do which is built on a do what you. remind them they are could be way more effective than skills and old school t.v. debates did mr zelinsky have a secret plan years ago what about his own sitcom launched in two thousand and
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fifteen selenski character just a school teacher on a fast track to be president turns the whole system upside down. just like maybe he never even thought of it and maybe his sensation came about because someone once randomly told the man why don't you give it a try in real life anyway world leaders should probably start watching out for comedy shows or at least avoid petro poroshenko mistakes like making a ton of promises you can't keep up with. you. being. there. was truly. petro poroshenko came to power after the mud on revolution he was loved in america and
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europe ukraine was then desperate for a strong new leader what did the people hope to get from mr poroshenko a country with no corruption less poverty a proper alliance with nato and the you and to the civil war in ukraine's east at hold men abroad he lost a lot of support by failing at all that would probably want to. ukrainians can stay in the you for ninety days without a visa the president did his best to cut off all possible ties with russia and that was the essence of his campaign but russia has been waging a hybrid war against our country for five years and crean is under the threat of food war with russia we will bring back crimea well despite the crises in crimea donbass which kiev blames on moscow the tactic didn't really work in the country where millions still speak russian and have relatives there it looks like it
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probably won't help mr poroshenko in the run off either almost fifteen percent is just too big of a margin even in round one all the hugs and kisses from nato's most powerful people have a sell by date. governments are being urged to play a more active role in policing the internet as facebook boss mark zuckerberg calls for more regulation online he says he wants mechanisms put 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 and protect users personal data mark zuckerberg demands represents a radical departure from the original vision that he had for facebook. i'm jewish and there's a set of people who deny the holocaust right now i find that deeply offensive but if the in 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
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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 and in these environments and push for as much expression as possible who would have thought that it could come to this book begging governments to tame the wild wild web to police censor and control it to think it all began so innocently people want to go on the internet and 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
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pictures announce parties keep in touch but somewhere along the line facebook grew dark gathering and selling people's personal information bought 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. 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.
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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 he's 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
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a while artie's math think media all four of the thick 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 messages are slick filled with graphics with ground. left leaning america's 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
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lindorff believes the mark zuckerberg is only out for his own interest. wolves are getting closer regular lation 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 too 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 late 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. videos emerged online before totally showing
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a group of protesters attacking a convoy carrying venezuela's self-proclaimed leader white oh the opposition figurehead was reportedly on his way to speak at a rally in a deprived part of caracas. was according to local media reports military police officers who were loyal to president maduro can be seen in the video protecting on quite as convoy the protesters held insults of the country's self declared leader and demanded that he leave the most populous districts in caracas well let's go live to max blumenthal who's at the greys on project which is an investigative journalism website welcome back to max you posted the video in a tweet describing it is the ultimate irony what made you say that. well it's ironic to see government security forces actually protecting a figure who's calling for the government to be toppled and who's actually
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attempting to fragment the security services from within it's also ironic because we constantly hear about venezuela as some kind of ruthless communist dictatorship but here you have a situation that certainly would not be tolerated in the united states or other countries like russia or china or germany where someone who's leading a coup is protected by the security services of the government he's trying to take out what kind of dictatorship is this well apparently it's not a very effective one and what's happening here is really interesting. this is where nicolas maduro his base is this is where his son actually lives it's a working class barrio that i visited and i actually saw the vice president of venezuela del see rodriguez enter this district without security and people basically gather around her to celebrate her and shake her hand and why is why don't they or why is he in a government stronghold because the u.s.
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wants him to get arrested to create a provocation that's why he's there. isn't actually video visible in the video that was how can people tell if it's not state you know. well that's that's a great question why do is actually limburg actually recently reported that when white it was in colombia as part of another provocation to ram through this humanitarian aid he wanted to do a european tour but his u.s. masters in washington told him get back in venezuela seize the momentum and see if you can get arrested this is actually the words they used and so here he is trying to stage a rally in the middle of monroe stronghold and the rally actually did take place why don't got out of his armored car or whatever it was and very few people attended it was a pathetic rally protected by the government and it really shows how irrelevant why do as becoming. strongholds of popularity according to polls anyway hovering around forty percent white voters around sixty percent given the blackouts given the economic strife especially hard hit areas like this one it's hard to imagine that
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madeira would have a positive reception if he turned up. well first of all i question that that number you cited of sixty percent it's supposedly from a poll by data analysis which is an opposition polling firm i haven't actually seen the poll i just seen it referred to by western journalists but if you look at another data analysis poll from october the national assembly of which quite a is the president has a seventy percent disapproval rating and his party of all into popularity or popular will has a seven percent approval rating so why don't for all the hype he's getting in with an economic crisis and now blackouts hitting venezuela you would think would be perceived much more favorably actually right now amid the blackouts there's attempts to seize the momentum and the opposition has mustered very small numbers in the streets most people are staying at home. as you say you've been to venezuela i also talked to
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a couple of filmmakers on altie last week and also visited venezuela and said the reality of living there isn't quite what's being played out in the media outside of it as well as borders but saying that millions of people have left the country but blackouts are having an effect the united nations says that it's a humanitarian crisis having this amount of blackouts become a duo hold on to power given all this going on in the country right now. well from the senate foreign relations committee. on march seventh marco rubio pledged that venezuela would enter a period of suffering unlike any unlike that which any nation in modern history has experienced in recent history five hours later the first blackout hit and the gurry hydroelectric plant was collapsing venezuelans fought through that blackout we actually have a piece up at the gray zone dot com venezuelan about the solidarity that was shown in the streets and not conveyed in western media and being the conscience that venezuelans have about what's being done to them many of them do believe they're
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being sabotaged and there is evidence of that but the blackout has done demonstrably damage to this is siding at all sectors and it's a question of when the blackouts and and how much people can tolerate but right now people are staying at home and they're trying to fight through this at least in the poor and working class areas in need but strife and poverty and struggling venezuela was happening before all this president mubarak compu blameless kind of. well there were blackouts before this but we've never seen anything like the sustained level of blackouts which just keep hitting again and again with u.s. officials celebrating it with the u.s. officials pledging secondary sanctions on any country elliott abrams two days ago at the state department actually threaten the company's directly for doing business with venezuelan the new york times of all places has reported that the sanctions are making it impossible for the venezuelan government to import food or medicine
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so we're seeing just unprecedented sadism there's no denying that mistakes were made by the government in fact in his inaugural speech during knowledged economic mistakes but now they're in a position where the u.s. is trying to prevent them from getting out of the hyperinflation getting out of the economic crisis and preventing them from doing importing food and medicine and this is financial terrorism and it's an attack on everyone regardless of their political affiliation i think venezuelans recognize that and it's actually harming the opposition's cause side to side as well as part of fall from over from where it seems right now thanks for sharing that with all of the great. thanks. british m.p.'s are back in parliament to vote on a series of alternatives to teresa mayes impact told bracks it plan the p.m.'s divorce bills already been rejected three times but a fourth vote could still happen but while the bracks a debate gripped westminster some climate change activists given piece
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a stark reminder of other issues. despite the diversion m.p.'s are now voting on four alternative motions to teresa mayes breck's it plan they include remaining in the european single market or negotiating a permanent customs union another would see the british people have the final say on any withdrawal agreement finally making sure the u.k. doesn't crash out of the european union without any to you know come april the twelfth. next the authorities in california have released disturbing body cam video of the police shooting of an american rapper william accord and apparently shows that the musician was asleep at the time of the next video does contain upsetting images and sounds thought.
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of the incident took place in february police were initially called to check on mccoy's wellbeing six officers shot him twenty five times claiming he leaned for his gun when he woke up in his car the evidence suggests the police did not try to wake him up something that his family also claims. the bigger picture police in the united states killed more than one 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 any other groups michelle gross from communities against police brutality says the officers in the william a court case should be charged with murder. it is in no way a best practices they should not have shot if you are and you know it was
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ridiculous they started twenty five times and then they started screaming one of your hands out of your hands and a man was dead and the fact that they chose to wake him up with lawrence and of course kill him is completely wrong there can be no other explanation that you know i understand that they were maybe a little spooked by the fact that he had it on loaded gun in his law the bottom line is that you know they should have attempted to wake you first in the united states you are an extremely far small fraction and i believe these police officers should be charged with murder as well. turkish voters have dealt president ruling party a major blow in local elections the electoral commission's announced that his aka party has lost control of the capital ankara and also istanbul thousands of opposition party supporters have been out celebrating in both those cities however the a.k. party is reportedly planning on challenging the results of the country's two main
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population centers alleging that have been widespread voting irregularities despite the setback the ruling party and its ally still came out on top nationwide taking more than fifty one percent of the vote the turkish president welcomed the victory . as a result which shows that in these elections as has been the equation a lot of november two thousand and two election has been we as the a have once again come first by a wide margin or should i be sure that all political analysts use a fair and told us he believes the a.k. party's done relatively well given turkey's economic woes. c.h.p. had a very good strategy going in they changed it up a little they're normally recognized as a left party and they took a step to the right during the selections we've seen them go out in the conservative electorate you have to realize that the party's been in power for seventeen years now it's a party that had up to fifty two percent of the vote at one time in we see at this election that there are votes around forty five percent when you look at the
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political conjecture of the country over the last two or three years you see a coup attempt in two thousand and sixteen the turkish lira has that over thirty percent recently in the last year the economy has slowed down after a period of high growth so there is an overheating of the economy when you take all these into account forty five percent being the top parties still a very good result everyone knew that. there were going to be a very tight race but we need to realize that there's three hundred thousand votes that were ruled invalid last night that the party does plan to contest so we're going to see if these votes are going to be contested in kind of change the result who knows that remains to be seen. and international chain of fatality 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
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genetically engineered baby and you get down the slippery slope of just genetically altered designer babies designer babies. with the gene editing procedure clinics and d.n.a. that allows them to change physical features such as like and even kill certain illnesses. ban on editing human embryos established in twenty nine countries around the globe the u.s. too has restrictive rules on research but gender selection is not prohibited scientists bryan handily explains concerns surrounding genetic engineering. the risk servers are so high right now know that you know that's what 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 going to rio's that are considered good enough to implant and out of those you get two or three that can survive for
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a few weeks and one that is considered viable or just on the on the air edge of being being ready to do that in a way that is reliable enough. for human use human rights lawyer jennifer braden and money has a politician an 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
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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 glorify 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 shaded on the converse if 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
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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 specifically in the science community and in parenthood and in the family system as a whole. from the newsroom this hour across talks next only fallout from the report finding the evidence of collusion between donald from russia. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president one should. somehow want to be that's.
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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the biggest political hoax in american history russia gate is almost a thing of the past bragg's 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. across lacking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow grandees 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 we cross anima schoen she is a former m i five intelligence officer or across the uk rules in effect 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
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article so i felt obliged to read it title as material confronts a crisis russia's footprint in venezuela grows and then there's a very bizarre paragraph and this is how i want to start this segment here in an era of generally warming ties between the trump administration of moscow russia is deepening its involvement in venezuela so when so and so and so you know i don't know relations were on the up and up and really what i want to talk about is that is anything going to change in the post. or world after this report that was released on what i've called all along as a hoax here is there any future a positive future for russia's relations with the united states and with the western world of course including the european union as we move forward go ahead. well i think that there is a chance. many former intelligence diplomats miniature people around the world. trump with the president elect. was the fact that he wanted.

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