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local elections. thanks for joining us this hour. a comedian and political newcomer one the first round of ukraine's presidential election volodymyr selenski took the lead in sunday's ballots with twice as many votes as incumbent president petro poroshenko. will face off in a second round on april the twenty first. now why support for ukraine's president has been plummeting. 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 selenski aka is a president is 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 going to. bring back crimea. can you just love. what about his own sitcom launched in two thousand and fifteen selenski character just a schoolteacher 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 as mistakes like making a ton of promises you can't keep petro poroshenko came to power after the mud on revolution he was loved in america and 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 whole meant abroad he lost a lot of support by failing at all that was probably one exception 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 russia has been waging a hybrid war against a country for five years. under the threat of fools going to war with russia the tactic didn't really work in the country where millions still speak russian and have relatives there it looks like it 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. this year's ukrainian presidential election seems to have gained less attention in the west than it did in twenty fourteen the countries also received less u.s. financial assistance for the vote than in previous years i think modern summers says that significant open amount of money that they've committed to the election suggests that they're losing face in their puppets in ukraine. is

clearly a busted flush and they don't particularly want to waste any more time and energy trying to keep him in power no doubt they will be beating a path to zilinskas door this minute hoping that if he does win that they will be able to influence in the directions they would like to see but they clearly clearly if they don't see him as one of the candidates think that's hopeful for ukraine and hopeful for the general situation because we do need you know independent people have got a bit an independent data too and maybe he's going to come up with some more sensible policies than we've seen in the last few years we'll have to see it's not clear. the british parliament's rejected all four motions put forward to resolve the brics deadlock m.p.'s held a second series of so-called indicative votes and so after the prime minister's e.u. withdrawal plan was again result to be defeated now one option was to remain in the

european single market that was turned down by a margin of twenty one. there were other options to a plan for a permanent customs union that got the closest to winning a majority blocked by just three votes and lawmakers rejected giving the british people a final say on the withdrawal agreement and filing a motion to further the labor it said was the most unpopular of all so as things stand the default legal position is that the u.k. will leave the e.u. with no deal in place on april twelfth. after the vote in the european parliament steve bracks it would go shame to tweeted that a hard breaks it is becoming nearly inevitable guy verhofstadt said that wednesday will be the u.k.'s last chance to break the deadlock or face the abyss is referring of course to the possible new round of votes proposed by the opposition leader jeremy corbett. if it's good enough for the prime minister to have three chances at her deal i know i suggest possibly that house should have

a chance to consider again the all the options that we had before us today he did great on wednesday so that the house can exert see where the prime minister has failed in presenting a credible economic relationship with europe for the future the prevent is crashing out with no deal the prime minister's deal is dead my past me refuses to compromise it is crystal clear to us don't start with that i report said nurse time's not disrespected before the vote took place activists stripped off in the house of commons public gallery to raise awareness about climate change twelve people were arrested the stunt was aimed at m.p.'s to remind them of their other big issues are the bricks which need tackling. there. was. a professor of european law francesco

to talk told us there is no clear way out for progress that the reason why. she's really caught between a rock and up this. issue for the customs union she's going to be on the other hand. travel the only way she's going to go through because her resignation. departure without. agreement a binding agreement on a customs union means it's going to touch you whether she's going to get through it if we crash out will be a bit and really it's a minority view if you just go find action with it even harder experience in the cabinet except that there would be one price thanks to. a government 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 is also calling for measures that will help to ensure the integrity of elections and protect users personal data and what superbugs the models are present the radical departure from the original vision he had for the social media platform. i'm jewish and there's just sort of people who deny the holocaust 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 so innocently people want to go on the internet and check out their friend someone at the web site 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 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. 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 a while artie's math ik media all four of magic pages including the now were taken down for no reason other than pressure from pro-war think tank and i'll leave you

with more from the messages are slick filled with graphics with grand. 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 mark zuckerberg certainly looking out for his own self interest. wolves are getting closer regulation is 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 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. veneers a muslim line allegedly showing a group of protesters attacking a convoy carrying one as well as self declared leader one why does the opposition forget it was reportedly on his way to speak at a rally at the private part of caracas.

was according to media reports minute three police officers who unoiled to president can be seen in the video protecting kwan gotos convoy the protest is held insults of the country's self the fed leader and the morning to leave the most populous district in caracas so i missed my excellent all gave us his thoughts on the footage. it's ironic to see government security forces actually protecting wydow a figure who's calling for the government to be toppled and who is actually attempting to fragment the security services from within and 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 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 as an alibi this is where nicolas maduro is base is this is where his son actually lives why is why don't they or why is he in a government stronghold because the u.s. wants him to get arrested to create a provocation that's why he's there. the u.s. is spending and with turkey over its ties with russia we'll explain just why. would. you put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. the two going to be

pros this is what before three of the more people. interested in the. security council should have a mandatory one percent of all stock bond for x. transactions to go into social security so that every individual let's say when they become eighteen they've got fifty six thousand dollars in there that they can go spend on college if they want to that's a that is a that is an extra analogy of this economy that's being recycled repurposed regenerated into an ecosystem an economy that is like more mimics that of nature.

the program us suspended a key contract with turkey in protest. over russian weaponry the pentagon to suspend the deliveries of equipment for the f. thirty five fighter jets which is in the process of buying washington's demanding that i encourage. the russian. hundred masel system turkey is one of washington's key allies within nato and u.s. defense officials have said of turkey would to use the f. thirty five and the s four hundred within the same integrated system moscow would gain backdoor access to crucial intelligence. this comes at a difficult time for turkey's president to what on sunday his party suffered a major blow to local elections losing control of major cities including the capital ankara thousands of opposition party supporters have been out celebrating however the ok party's reportedly planning on challenging the results alleging

there have been widespread voting irregularities. despite the setback the ruling party and its allies still came out on top nationwide taking over fifty one percent of the vote as president claims this results was a victory. the results show that in these elections as has been the case in the november two thousand and two elections as we as the. have once again come first by a wide margin. for us live now to historian gerald horne thanks for joining us so good to have in the program today was the key nato ally in the region historically close ties to washington i just how significant is this is sort of these deliveries and how crucial are they for turkey. it's significant recall that in approximately the summer of two thousand and sixteen the earl one government was almost overthrown in a military coup and the earlier one government credibly accused the turkish air

force of being involved in a coup when united states military industrial complex sells these f. thirty five jets they not only get profits they also get to train pilots of countries such as turkey and gives them leverage in terms of interfering in the turn of affairs of turkey so i dare say that turkey is not necessarily disappointed with this council lesson because it removes a possible point of leverage for washington and uncle and of course the pentagon is really thrown out of gold as the time for saying it is has the council those deliveries of the s four hundred russian missile system. sat in on a president renowned for compromise renowned for giving in to threats i mean how do you think he's going to respond to that. i think you're correct i think it would lead to a further deterioration of relations between opera and washington recall also that washington hasn't vision turkey as

a point of the spear in terms of helping to encircle russia they intend on playing on those nineteenth century tensions between so call christian russia and so-called muslim turkey that were so important in bulgaria for example in the western balkans for example but uncle it does not seem like it wants to play that role instead of squab parading russia in syria is cooperating with russia with regard to iran as well and keep in mind also that washington is upset because it's close ally that is saudi arabia is similarly upset with turkey because of its role in the horn of africa not least in somalia where turkey has built one of its largest legations and also a military base as well so i think it's fair to say that relations between iran and washington will be heading south sooner rather than later just to touch upon some

of the wider issues you mentioned the geopolitical issues in that area because can the u.s. have several disputes that they including the u.s. is refusing to extradite the cleric is not a cleric for to look good and there's also a conflict things strategies in syria iran question the sanctions that do you see a way out of this or is this a sort of permanent nosedive in relations. i think it's a nosedive relations are heading south for to look cool and there's you know is an opponent or perceived as an opponent of the earth or one of ministration he is an exile in the brain yet in the united states of america the earlier one regime is asked for him to be extradited washington has not complied and along the way the governors here in united states have been quite active not least in helping to kill school the united states of america and educate us schoolchildren keep in mind as well that relations between turkey and the u.s. ally israel are not very good as well not least because mr earle one has been

speaking up on behalf of palestinians not least palestinians in the open air prison that is gaza so this does not spell well for the future of u.s. relations yes interesting time be interesting to see how they develop given the suspension of those the liveries historian and author gerald horne thanks for your time today here not international. the canadian prime minister's facing we need pressure to resign over a corruption scandal so after a secretly recorded phone conversation between senior officials was leaked it suggested that justin trudeau trying to protect that allegedly corrupt company from prosecution there legation surrounding the engineering giant s. and c. level and go back to twenty fifteen what it was charged with bribery and fraud to secure contracts in libya since the allegations surfaced several senior government officials in a tower have stepped down in the leaked order kind of his top civil servant saying

that trudeau is firmly against the company facing prosecution on several occasions . michael i have to say including this conversation previous conversations that i've had with the prime minister and many other people around it it's entirely inappropriate and it is political interference or kind of his prime minister's denied any wrongdoing while stressing that his support for the country's largest construction firm was intended to protect jobs independence political analyst alexandra bruno thinks the scandal is down to political incompetence well it's certainly a mess in the office and i think the we haven't seen the end of it but not necessarily just because of the s. and c. scandal. which i think this is just more than illegality that the the prime minister is incompetent so far he hasn't gotten anything done and

perhaps with a better political strategy he could have gotten the that s. and c. eleven and protected and wilson. placed in an equally important position in cabinet that she would not have spoken out or created the rift with the prime minister so there is a level of political incompetence here because many prime ministers are called to do what to do it was called to protect jobs and a canadian company. authorities in california have released disturbing body cam video of the police shooting of american rapper willie mccoy and apparently shows that a musician was asleep at the time just a warning to viewers the next video does contain distressing images. it was. was. was. it was.

born or. lives hadn't took place in february police were initially called to check up on mccoy's wellbeing six officers then 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 claimed. i'll just look at the bigger picture here police in the us killed more than a thousand people last year most of the officers involved didn't 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 willie 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 they started screaming going to your hands your hands now man was dead and the fact that they chose to wake him up with warrants a new course is completely wrong there can be no other explanation than race you know i understand that they were maybe a little spooked by the fact that he had an on loaded gun in his life but the bottom line is that you know they should have attempted to wake him first in the united states you know an extremely for all small fraction and i believe these police officers should be charged with murder as well as the headlines for the so you what's your to international thanks for staying tuned and join us again in thirty minutes for global news update.

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