pacific is this is where those stopped at the push of the usual forces. must go confirms talks between a lot of their putin and kim jong un will take place in russia's far east on thursday the details of their first ever meeting have been kept top secret. also this hour islamic state claims responsibility for sunday's bomb attacks in sri lanka which took more than three hundred lives. are to investigate the links between the us government and facebook as the social media giant introduces its new general counsel a legal adviser at the u.s. state department. is using if they have them. if they have that they're ready to shoot at you. and a high profile german bodyguard reveals why it's so difficult to deal with the

clans making berlin a hotbed of crime. you're watching r t international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned five pm welcome to the program. breaking news this hour as anticipation is growing over the upcoming talks between vladimir putin and kim jong un the kremlin has confirmed they will take place in the city of lot of us stuck in russia's far east this thursday moscow n.p.r. have been keeping the details of the first ever meeting between the russian and north korean leader secret. isn't a lot of us stuck 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 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 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 someone who holds great influence over kim as it's believed she's often being called vivanco of 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 jong il 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. . counterpart would not be but some of the person who is more careful in communicating with mr pale 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 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 in vladivostok in 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 our quarter. isis's 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. 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 that led to the intelligence agencies if you will 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 destination 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.

i. i. i. the role of social media has been highlighted over both the attacks on sunday and in new zealand tell us more about that actually played a big part in both 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 you actually took authorities quite a while to take it down on the internet and in the case of sort of the i'm going to thirty's have actually already blocked a 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 spoke to the former head of the u.k.

counterterrorism security office chris philips he thinks these attacks were prepared a long time ago. 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 where it took place that may have been influenced by the attack in new zealand what we do know is that intelligence agencies were aware that this was likely to happen someone somewhere you know somewhere across the world is provided intelligence which within the sri lankan or thirty's assumes you have got lost so he 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 most people who go to those countries would say peaceful countries where these horrendous attacks have taken place. questions are being raised over the growing links between facebook and the

us government that has these social media giant and asked it's hired the u.s. state department's legal adviser as its general counsel and vice president of communications the company says jennifer newstead will oversee facebook's global legal functions you said has had a long career in 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 artie's eager style of 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 upload 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 done for me. the. world spends so much time. training researching and informing journalists that

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. you 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 of ssris 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 us 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 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. because 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 pointer 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 but 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 a 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 leading digital rights group the electronic frontier foundation is calling on facebook to crack down on matthews' a 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 would believe is a march logs iceberg beneath the surface we often only discovered the existence of law enforcement fake profiles months if not years soft investigation has concluded . that comes after u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agents reportedly use facebook and a sting operation to catch illegal migrants officials created a fictional college called the university of farmington which prompted the enrollment a foreign students after checking the background of those that applied they ended up arresting around one hundred and thirty people u.s. government agencies and says their use of social media is essential for successful investigations 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 operates in 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 alliance or smith 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 continuous violent sovern human rights who are 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 the bad out there are

no good big in that there's only be. more global news after this short break. would. you put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so would you want to be president and should. want to be. actually going to be approached this is what before three of the more people. interested in the waters of. the housing crisis was a result of securitizing mortgages that were resold to dozens of times like goldman sachs was betting as are all clients and they were engaged in massive fraud they

get bailed out by timothy geithner and his friends and now they go of that controlled demolition of the housing market is that all housing is concentrated in a few as like blackstone as a gift from their friends of the central banks and the result is medieval let's. come back roland 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 currie is a world kick boxing champion and while he claims to favor multiculturalism he's worried current migration policies have a lot of things to thrive in the capital our sister channel in germany spent a day with him in berlin. if they have

a moment if they already. have the ready to shoot. their resume or everyone has to. go to the. remote. doesn't always a big families. in the crew of the worlds but you can see all of them all criminals and many have nothing to do with it. oh. yes i was. because i was present a lot of. my friends that i have been in this is in the since one thousand nine hundred eighty two there's one though almost every family even if i don't know someone they've heard about me work if they know i'm

a fan of multiculturalism i always be all very positively about it wasn't because many families themselves in the criminal world in tears the result was. we have to give these guys some credit cards and the german government hadn't done enough to integrate and then an obvious going to many of them couldn't. speak and that's why they resorted to criminality. these clans are closely tied to give us like a hole you want to see anything like that in germany. they can bring together forty to fifty people in just half an hour before the audience. is present not about business in one thousand nine hundred. ninety one and the plan started expanding

and influence aside local german groups and taking. control of the hospital and farmers now totally controlling or including drugs prostitution and she has a lot of money. because it's only as an investigative route as you for the deals primarily with the organizers why some of this was for 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. by cooperate with the police you've given the opportunity to be independent and i don't. think it's a. boil prices soared to six month highs on monday as the u.s. has announced it will scrap all exemptions from the ban it had previously imposed on iran's oil imports and is threatening to sanction any country or entity that fails to comply slamming the sanctions as illegal iran threaten to block the strait of hormuz the world oil route which transports a fifth of all international oil and added that if threatened it would not hesitate to protect and defend the street this comes after secretary of state might pump air confirmed washington would not extend its current waiver program. today i am 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 they'll be 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 the suppliers are working directly with iran's former customers to make the transition away from iranian crude less disruptive the waivers that expire on the second of may allow eight countries to continue buying oil from iran without the threat of sanctions it was claimed that these exceptions had been put into place to avoid volatility on the oil market pumpin now says that ending these waivers is meant to deny the islamic republic its key source of revenue turkey has criticized washington's decision saying the move will jeopardize regional stability and harm ordinary iranians china

has also criticized the unilateral sanctions maintaining that its dealings with iran are open and transparent however japan expects only a limited impact from the move and will not need to tap its own national reserves. iranian foreign affairs expert cover they offer us the yabby believes washington is forcing toronto dopped a more aggressive stance. the us is seriously escalating this unilateral economic warfare against iran jeopardizing economic wellbeing and eating young people. putting iran against the wall and therefore one should naturally expect a stiff a reaction from you ron reach me in the form of implementing death threats industry top of. the us is edging closer to water we do on using all kinds of excuses that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our

website r.t. dot com the details on all the stories and many more. what is it call and the question is magic internet a new type of digital currency decentralized digital scarcity chancellor. of second for bankers call the genesis blog for reason to calling it civil disobedience a source of optimism because i can control my own financial death any it's just a new way of coming to consensus it's a game changer in the human history and this is columbus discovering a new world this paradigm shifting technology that transforms economics and finance in a heartbeat the apollo eleven landing on to the max and stacey. facebook

and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it 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 only see. one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results diced 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're all.

ratings and salutation. spring is here in the united states talk watchers with every spring comes growth and reflection see reflection is important my principle personally and for a nation which is why we here in the united states of america need more reflection like the kind put forth by former us president jimmy carter we need more of this reflection if we can ever hope to see more growth again you see jimmy carter recently dropped a bombshell while discussing the differences between the united states and china when he tragically and rightfully observed that the united states is quote the most warlike nation in the history of the world wow and tragically the numbers don't lie especially when you compare the greedy trillions we've spent on our weapons of war to the paltry sums we've spent on our own infrastructure and it's this failure and

priority along with the greed and avarice that chokes our political systems from the city halls the capitol hill that has led to infrastructure crisis after infrastructure crisis like the dangerous. led in the water crisis of flint michigan back in two thousand and fourteen but where our politicians fail maybe our courts and an army of lawyers can succeed you see in response to a lawsuit that approximately three thousand residents piled two years ago against the e.p.a. the environmental protection agency for its failure to use the safe drinking water act to protect them the hill and others are now reporting that a bed roll judge this week said residents of flint michigan ken soup and sue the federal government over its response to the city's drinking water crisis so today my friends let us begin our spring forward towards growth and reflection by seeking justice for our sins of the past and we do that by watching the hawks.

with the. like you that i got. that we. would. be. the one watching the hawks i am tyrrell thanks for joining me to discuss the latest on flynn that citizens fight for clean water is right his writer and watching the hawks social media producer springer devon thank you so much so i'm going to start evan is how big of a victory is this for the citizens of flint i mean it's sad that you know five six years later they still don't have clean drinking water so this ruling by.