breaking news this hour and r.t.e. source confirms a meeting between vladimir putin and kevin jong is to take place and lot of us talk on thursday the details of their first ever meeting have been kept secret. also this hour islamic state claims responsibility for sunday's deadly bomb attacks and sure longer which claimed the lives of three hundred and twenty one people. and are to investigate the links between the u.s. government and facebook as the social media giant introduces its new general counsel who is a legal adviser at the u.s. state department. for the monthly average of cults and kills if they have

a good reason to kill. plus a famous bodyguard from germany it reveals how berlin has become an epicenter for criminal ethnic clans and why it's so difficult to deal with the issue. you're watching r t international bringing you in your live news update from our studio here in moscow where it's just turned three pm welcome to the program. we have breaking news this hour as anticipation is growing over the upcoming meeting between a lot of air putin and kim jong un and according to an r.t. source it will take place in the city of logical stalk and russia's far east this thursday moscow and pyongyang have been keeping the details of the first ever meeting between the russian and north korean leader secret. talk following the

preparations. on any other day you would see a beautiful bridge behind my shoulder but now it's all completely covered in fog in fact the whole city of light of all stock is covered in fog which is i guess a perfect display a perfect reflection of all the secrecy surrounding the summit of vladimir putin and cam john whom until pretty much the very last day neither the location nor the date were confirmed every little detail was a top secret all that we heard from the north korean side was that the talks are due soon. the chairman of the korean people sponte and supreme leader of our nation. will be visiting russia city at the invitation of freshman president vladimir putin during the visit there will be a summit between conjunct and the russian president. and here i am in the city of

light of all stock where the people are completely in the dark about what's going on they are not completely sure whether they'll be able to get to work and the days that are coming something else that's being talked about a lot is that kim john is heading to vladivostok on the training that was always used by his father and you know what before that train enters into russian territory even wheels will have to be changed because of the different size of the railways and the two countries but it is also believed that kim john sr wasn't on that train she is believed to be here already and vladivostok making preparations in advance for her brother and let me remind you that she's a kind of a peacemaker or someone who holds great influence over kim as it's believed she's often being cold vivanco of north korea she was present at the first historic

unification meeting between. pyongyang in seoul last february during the winter olympics in south korea some people in this city have even said that they've already seen the limo of kim jong un and another rumor is that they literally had to dig under the gate of the local railway station to make sure that this vehicle can squeeze through so this is going to be chairman kim's first visit to russia his father though kim jong il visited russia three times last time it happened in two thousand and eleven obviously i can't help mentioning the political climate surrounding this meeting first of all i have to tell you that lately pyongyang expressed dissatisfaction with u.s. diplomats and the even demanded that u.s. secretary of state mike pumpin step down as the top american negotiator when it

comes to contacts with north korea they want someone more suitable even in the case of possible resumption of dialogue with the u.s. i wish our dialogue counterpart would not be but some of the person who is more careful in communicating with us mr pompeo though insists that he's still in charge we also have to remember that the last long awaited meeting between kim john thune and donald trump in hug noid ended without any agreement being signed. ever since then washington got back you know sending out tough signals to the north and it appears that chairman kim wasn't really happy with that and this could be the reason why he's now arriving here and vladivostok and the far east of russia. islamic state has claimed responsibility for the easter sunday bombings in sri

lanka it comes after the country's government said two radical islamist groups were behind the attacks were. joined live in the studio by artist donald quarter now donald the islamic state has taken responsibility how does that fit in with what we heard yesterday of a wider forces at play well jackie isis is declaration came not very long after sri lanka's deputy defense minister said the bombings may have been in retaliation to the christ church shootings last month and after an initial investigation officials said that these two to islamic terrorist groups that may or may not be connected to isis could have been working within a larger international terrorist network now the series of bombings that took place on easter sunday had a death toll now at three hundred twenty one confirmed deaths and another five hundred injured according to unicef even forty five children were among the victims now sri lankan authorities were actually warned a full two weeks before this series of bombings took place and the cabinet spokesperson has already taken to apologize for not picking up on the tip. and then

. again the agencies that have been on the fourth of april international intelligence agencies informed us that such an incident could take place there detail group who is named christian churches in tourist destinations as the main targets as the government we are responsible for all of the story and we apologize to everybody. but let's go back to the claim that this attack was in retaliation for the new zealand mosque shootings what exactly was said there well as of right now it's the sri lankan authorities that are making that claim but we just actually heard a statement from the new zealand prime minister who said that the this claim hasn't actually been backed by solid and from intelligence information yet and just to remind our viewers about what happens in new zealand on march fifteenth a mosque and an islamic center were shot up in christ church new zealand now fifty people were killed another fifty people were injured and the twenty eight year old shooter was a self described white supremacist his his crimes in the mass shootings he

committed are considered to be some of the deadliest a new zealand's history. this is one of new zealand's darkest days. the role of social media has been highlighted over both the attacks on sunday and in new zealand tell us more about that you know what's actually played a big part in both in the case of christ church the shooter put up a startling manifesto for the world to see across the internet and then he lived he live stream the first part of his terrorist attack and it actually took authorities

quite a while for. to take it down off the internet and in the case of sri lanka authorities have actually already blocked major social media platforms facebook what instagram and youtube are among them with others included and this is part of the government's state of emergency declaration basically so it's really situations like this where the dilemma between freedom of freedom on the internet and the possibility of terrorists using it as a weapon for evil comes to the forefront. artist on the court of thank you so much for bringing us that report. political and social commentator mo and start wasn't surprised shillong that was chosen as a target when we look at the current geopolitical situation with regards to terrorism and the isis inspired in isis linked terrorism which this appears to be sure i could doesn't actually seem such an unusual target we've seen a lot of radicalization of muslims in india in response to the hardline far right

and muslim policies by india over the last three years local muslim communities have been reporting on national golf week mark that they're increasingly radical videos and hatred for non muslims they've been posting videos for around three years talk about eliminating all muslims so the early indications signals have been in place in sri lanka for some time the difficulty we've seen though is that due to the breakdown in the government state operation. the counterterrorism strategy they haven't been able to tackle this effectively. questions are being raised over the growing links between facebook and the us government as the social media giant announced it's hired the state department's legal advisor as its general counsel and vice president of communications according to the company's statement jennifer newstead will oversee facebook's global legal functions she has already enjoyed a long career in the u.s. administration serving in the state and justice departments and was also part. the

team which drafted the controversial patriot act which expanded government surveillance powers after the nine eleven attacks. the new appointment comes amid unprecedented pressure on facebook to tackle the spread of misinformation and fake news on its platform. takes a closer look at the firm's fact checking and fears over its trustworthiness. for the past two years facebook has been trying to convince the public it is taking a stand against fake news the program has been battered by controversies from criticism over how it's implemented to claims the impact it makes is little to none so how does facebook fact check news books well it doesn't instead of defectively has outsourced this function to a seemingly obscure journalism school. the pointer institute is a nonprofit based in florida it's nondescript anonymous in almost every way except

for the fact that any fact checking service willing to partner with facebook has to get pointers approval and this is the type of testimonies they uploaded on their you tube channel journalists to this important point or does for journalists is invaluable it's just so hard to separate. who i am as a reporter from. your point it was down for me. the. world spends so much time. training researching and for journalists to look at journalism as a true wow i wonder how many more journalism students out there talking about their school like it's a sect they joined but so far pointer has licensed around sixty partners from all over the world good to go to fact check for facebook and many of them have

a bit more in common than appetite for truth the thing they share is who they get their money from fact checkers from the u.s. the u.k. africa latin america the philippines and the pointer itself have been funded by the open society foundation and a media network either. one of them or both together they've donated millions to fact checkers so what are they and why are they so eager to invest. now the open society foundation was founded and is run by none other than george soros who invested more than thirty two billion dollars into the foundation and this open society foundation is known to do exactly that open societies or meddle in the affairs of countries all over the world having proven to be

a political weapon or source as for the a media network it belongs to another billionaire pierre media the creator of e-bay and just like soros is brainchild the network has been deeply involved in geo politics providing a steady flow of money for america's soft power ventures from funding opposition in other countries to creating puppet media outlets and there are plenty of other donors bestowing their wealth upon pointer and co not excluding the u.s. state department i expect to be there will be a very close interplay between the facebook checkers and the state department and that they will be really very respectful of the state department's point of view after all they're one of their paymasters so i think they will go out of their way not to contradict anything the state department says and to basically try to discredit anybody who might be criticizing them so fortunately this is the

antithesis of what most people think of when they think of freedom of media or freedom freedom of information now point and it's platoon or fact checkers say that one of their binding values is impartiality but sometimes that veil is quite easy to see through and i mean let me bring up one chart for you was showcased at a separating fact. from fake news panel by point and i mean by different nisshin here the mainstream media and mainstream news are presented here as a victim and it's presented as an inherently one hundred percent truthful entity just cannot be fake news here and that's despite the fact that mainstream outlets have repeatedly embarrassed themselves with faulty reporting from c.n.n. to buzz feed ironically the outlet behind this graph but after all these story suggests neither the u.s. government nor the sorest like bunch spend their billions out of pure philanthropy

and what this is clearly aimed at is to restrict the availability of alternative sources of information what they do is defend the establishment narrative and try to discredit alternative to this to the point of views which then they will declare to be non-factual or fake news according to their own fact checkers which are very very biased. meanwhile reports claim government enforcement agencies have been using facebook to their advantage leaving digital rights group called the electronic frontier foundation is urging facebook to crack down on u.s. immigration and customs enforcement which has been creating false accounts. facebook's practice of taking down these individual accounts when they learn about them from the press or from. insufficient to discern what would believe is a much logs iceberg beneath the surface we often only discovered the existence of law enforcement fake profiles months if not years soft investigation has concluded

. it comes after the law enforcement body reportedly used facebook in a sting operation to catch illegal migrants agents created a fictional college called the university of farmington which promoted the enrollment of foreign students after checking the background of those that applied they ended up arresting around one hundred thirty people u.s. agencies argue the use of social media can be essential for investigations of all facebook disagrees law enforcement or thirty's like everyone else are required to use their real names on facebook and we make this policy clear on our public facing law enforcement guidelines page or breaks in fake accounts is not allowed and we swiftly act on any violating accounts we discuss the issue with a social activist who says human rights have been violated the united states. does not only by only facebook it in it by elites our own federal state local

municipal law the federal government the local government even vigilante groups in the in the border states continuous liability for human rights were undocumented people in people seeking asylum here in this country i think it's become a here in the united states of america wants to be owner control or the internet but when you have an organization such great magnitude as facebook that seems to be complying secretly with u.s. spy agencies and law enforcement agencies you are going to get a bad out there are no good big in there there's only the. carlin has become home to some of the biggest criminal clans in the world that's according to one of the city's most famous bodyguards michael curry is a world a kick boxing champion and while he claims to favor multiculturalism his word current migration policy is have a lot of gangs to thrive in the capital our sister channel in germany spent

a day with him and belin. knife they are ready to cut and kill if they have a gun they're ready to shoot and kill. the reason more everyone has to abide by. as i go in there are families like. checa. these are big families. well known in the criminal world but you call them all of them are criminals and many have nothing to do with it. oh. it will be. because i was. because i was present a lot of. i've been in this is in the since nine hundred eighty two there's one though almost every family even if i

don't know someone they've heard about me they know i'm a fan of multiculturalism i always be all very positively about it wasn't because many found themselves in the criminal world in tears the result was. we have to give these guys some credit the german government hadn't done enough to integrate and then obvious going to many of them couldn't get a job license for years and that's why they resorted to criminality. these clans are closely tied to give us their like the whole you want to see anything like that in germany. they can bring together forty to fifty people in just half an hour before the audio. business in one thousand nine hundred ninety

four when their plan started expanding and their influence pushing aside local german groups and taking. control the oil spill and farmers now totally controlling us or including drugs prostitution and she has a lot of money. because it. only has an investigative group for the deals primarily with organized crime among families. or individual members of these families as well as a group conducting intelligence activities including coming into contact with potentially dangerous criminal elements. government policy completely failed thirty's totally. the situation it's all they're trying to minimize the damage but

it's not an easy thing to do. i cooperate with police given the opportunity to be independent and i don't depend on any clan my closest. oil prices have soared to a six month high and it comes as the u.s. announced it will scrap all exemptions on iran oil imports and sanction those who fail to abide by the new rules flemming the things as illegal iran threaten to block the strait of hormuz the world's key oil route which transports a fifth of all international oil and added that if threatened it would not hesitate to protect and defend the strait this comes after u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe confirmed washington would not extend its current waiver program today announcing that we will no longer grant any exemptions we're

going to zero going to zero across the board any nation or entity interacting with iran should use its diligence and err on the side of caution the risks are simply not going to be worth the benefits if you don't abide by this the sanctions both the kingdom of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have assured us they will ensure an appropriate supply for the markets and of course the united states is now a significant producer as well. i can confirm that each of those suppliers are working directly with the runs former customers to make the transition away from iranian crude less destructive until now eight countries have been allowed to continue to buy oil from iran without the threat of sanctions from washington it was previously claimed these exemptions would be a way of avoiding volatility in the oil market pumping out now says that ending these waivers is designed to deny the islamic republic its principal source of revenue turkey has come out strongly against the u.s. decision it says the move will only jeopardize regional stability and bring harm to

local iranians china has also criticized the unilateral sanctions maintaining that its dealings with iran have always been open and transparent meanwhile japan says it's not overly concerned and doesn't believe it will impact its economy. iranian foreign affairs expert. believe so washington is forcing tehran to adopt a more aggressive stance. the us is seriously escalating this unilateral economic warfare against iran jeopardizing economic wellbeing and even young people. putting iran against the wall and therefore one should naturally expect a stiff a reaction from you ron which me in the form of implementing their threats industry who are more. the us is edging closer to water weedeater on using all kinds of

excuses that are global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all of the stories and many more. international memorial awards twenty nine see the now open for entries the media professionals are eligible whether you're a freelance journalist who work for alternative media who are part of a global news conference to participate send us your published works in video rich . go to war dot com and to now. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is often very dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i

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