the. breaking news as moscow confirms talks between vladimir putin and kim jong un will take place and russia's far east on thursday the details of their first ever meeting have been kept top secret amid security concerns. also this hour islamic state claims responsibility for sunday's a bomb attacks in sri lanka shook more than three hundred lives. plus r.t. investigates the links between the us government and facebook as the social media giant introduces its new general counsel a legal advisor at the u.s. state department. has a register called kill. the rich kill. and

a high profile german bodyguard reveals why it's so difficult to deal with the clans making berlin a hotbed of ethnic crime. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. breaking news this hour anticipation is growing over the upcoming talks between vladimir putin and kim jong un the kremlin has confirmed it will take place in the city of laudable stock in russia's far east this thursday moscow n.p.r. news had been keeping the details of the first ever meeting between the russian and north korean leader secret citing security concerns. a lot of us 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 vladivostok 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 it's also. the chairman of the korean people sponte and supreme leader of our nation who will be visiting russia 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're 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 someone who holds great influence over kim as it's believed she's often being called the. north korea she was present at the first historic unification meeting between pyongyang and 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 john 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 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 noyo ended without any agreement being signed ever since then washington got back to sending out tough signals to north korea and it appears that chairman kim was 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 which took three hundred and twenty one lives it comes after the country's government said two radical islamist groups were behind the attacks i discussed the issue with artist on a quarter. 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 that of the intelligence agencies they 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 let's go back to the claim that this attack was in retaliation for the

new zealand 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 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 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 it'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 lives through the first part of this terrorist attack and it actually took authorities quite a while to take it down off the internet and in the case of sri lanka authorities have actually already blocked major social media platforms facebook whatsapp instagram and you tube 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. we go live now to chris phillips former head of the u.k. counterterrorism security office welcome to the program now are you convinced by this link to the new zealand attacks something months not much time to put together such a large scale bombings you know with this this attack is clearly a long time in the planning and possibly even a month is probably not quite long enough to do that but of course what it will have done perhaps is change the attack locations so the attack was going to take place almost certainly but where it took place that may have been influence by the attack in new zealand now is it unusual that sri lanka's defense minister gave no further information on what led them to link the bombings to the new zealand attack . well within the intelligence community is quite difficult to release information on where you got it from because obviously those links are often secret what we do

know is that the intelligence agencies were aware that this was likely to happen someone somewhere you know somewhere across the world as provided intelligence which within the sri lankan authorities it seems to have gotten lost a certainly doesn't appear to have been acted on well enough and we had this this terrible attack what we've seen actually though is two countries sri lanka and new zealand both of which are generally very very peaceful and most people who go to those countries would say peaceful countries where these horrendous attacks have taken place you talked about the fact that the government actually had forewarning why do you think the issue and intelligence failed to act on the detailed warnings before the attacks. when it appears that is in a very difficult situation with two factions within government but probably not talking to each other well enough certainly in the u.k. what we've found is all intelligence need to come into a central point so that so that everyone can share with intelligence that the

received by anyone and i think that's really important here sri lanka have got a lot of lot of lessons to learn but they're not on their own we remember back to belgium and the difficulties that they had a few years ago with their intelligence services not talking to each other so it's really important all countries start thinking about this much better if they get intelligence it needs to be active them. and with the government right to shut down social media in the wake of the bombings. while i think it is a difficult move to make what you do know is that the bad guys are using in this the social media to communicate as well so there has to be a sort of a real thought process as to why you're doing it and what you're doing it for because of course a lot of people will will use it to check that their families are. so so it's really important that the government think this through maybe there was some intelligence around the bad guys using it and maybe it was necessary but but it's a really difficult and dangerous move to make the prime minister has warned that

sunday's tragedy could actually spark instability in the country do you think he was right to do that yeah absolutely yeah sure like just ten years ago was a country riven by civil war so this is what i mean the whole point of terrorism is to drive people's apart christians against muslims against buddhists so so yes absolutely that's a potential issue and of course it's incumbent upon all those good people not to do that because this won't be the muslim majority or people in the muslim community that done this it's individuals a terrorist group and we've got to focus on those former head of the u.k. counterterrorism security office chris phillips thank you so much for joining us on the program. berlin 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 kick boxing champion and while he claims to favorite multiculturalism he's

worried current migration policies have allowed gangs to thrive in the capital our sister channel in germany spent a day with him and berlin. ready to cut and kill if they have a gun ready to shoot and kill. you can resume or everyone has to abide by. a civilian there are families like. remote. these have big families. in the cruel world but you can see all of them all criminals 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 being very positively about it wasn't because many found themselves in the criminal world here as a result. 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 together they're like a hole you won't see anything like that in german families they can bring together

forty to fifty people in just half an hour. to visit i found a business in one thousand nine hundred ninety four that's when the clan started expanding and that includes pushing aside local german groups and taking. under control they are godfathers now totally controlling us or including drugs prostitution and shares of our money. because if one has an investigative group that deals primarily with organized crime among families. for individual members of these families as well as a group conducting intelligence including coming into contact with potentially

dangerous criminal elements. government policy completely failed. totally. the situation they're trying to minimize the damage but it's not so easy to do. it given the opportunity to be independent i don't depend on. my class is. still to come facebook hires a top state department official as a social media giant faces growing scrutiny over its links to the u.s. government and that after the break. banks are survival guide books they say they're going to start saying that this is

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welcome back questions are being raised over the growing links between facebook and the u.s. government that's as the social media giant announced it's hired the u.s. state department's legal advisor as its general counsel and vice president of communications the company says jennifer a new set of will oversee facebook's global legal functions you said has had a long career in the u.s. government service with both the state and justice departments she was part of the team which drafted the controversial patriot act expanding 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 i was down three point areas of the.

world spend so much time. training researching and informative journalists. 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 the 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 point 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 then discredit anybody who might be criticising 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 it 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 stories record 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 the dissident 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 leaving digital rights group the electronic frontier foundation is calling on facebook to crack down on mass use of fake accounts by law

enforcement agencies. facebook's practice of taking down these individual accounts when they learn about them from the press or from is insufficient to discern what we believe is in march logs eisenberg beneath the surface we only discovered the existence of law enforcement fake profiles months if not years soft investigation has concluded it comes after us emigration and customs enforcement agents reportedly use facebook and a sting operation to catch and legal migrants officials created a fictional college called the university of farmington which prompted the enrollment of foreign students after checking the background of those that applied they ended up arresting around one hundred and thirty people. u.s. government agencies insist their use of social media is essential for a successful investigation but facebook disagrees. law enforcement or florida keys 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 breaking fake accounts is not allowed and we swiftly act on any violating accounts. activist tighe barry told us no fake accounts should be about the law. the united states law enforcement does not only by only facebook laws it in it by elites our own federal state local municipal law the federal government the local government even vigilante groups on the on the in the border states continuously violent sovern human rights for undocumented people in people seeking asylum here in this country i think it's become a period the united states of america wants to be owner controller of 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're going to get a bad out there are no good big in that there's only me. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports. or. the god.

god. god god god. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation flag. be an arms race is often very dramatic development only really i'm going to i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately there was also a very dark side. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very first character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another

one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be see if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist the more growth we give them the sooner we are all. broadcasting around the world covering all aspects of business and finance and how it affects you this is a boom but i'm building in far bar in washington d.c. we're glad you're on board coming up. the trump administration is hardly iran yet

again this time that it's caused hairs on country view they are ronnie and oil hillary ford with a market drilled into the headlines they think just how this move affect other nation why. while away is managing to soar despite constant pressure from the united states artie's alex mahela veges logs on to break down hallways pass from relative obscurity to household name and finally block chain is making major moves again with legacy institutions jeffrey tucker of the american institute for economic research lend us a hand to break down all the latest watch chain is all of that directly ahead but first we had some headlines let's go. a tightening of the screws on our on leads our global report today as u.s. president donald trump puts an end to exemption for sanctions against the oil nation previously eight countries china greece india italy japan

south korea taiwan and turkey or granted waivers regarding the u.s. sanctions against iran energy sector now the white house has announced that president trouble will not issue those waivers effectively making those nations subject to sanctions under u.s. laws as of may second white house press secretary sara sanders said this decision is intended to bring iran's oil exports to zero u.s. secretary of state mike pump a claim that iran's regional rivals saudi arabia and the u.a.e. are working with the u.s. to boost oil output which would also at the last for more we're joined by hillary for which all of straw mark the guide to having a very hilarious iraq so right now by not reissuing these authorities when they expire president trump is effectively trying to bring iran's oil exports down to zero and denying this regime this principal source of revenue is that he's trying to bring them back to the negotiating table tell us exactly what is the u.s. trying to achieve by doing this or by trying to do this i would give the analogy

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