moscow confirms talks between vladimir 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. islamic state claims responsibility for sunday's bomb attacks in sri lanka which took more than three hundred lives. also this hour 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. for the use of its. coats and if they have it they're ready to shoot. and

a high profile german bodyguard reveals why it's so difficult to deal with the clans making berlin a hotbed of ethnic crime. you're watching our to international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned six pm welcome to the program. 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 water bus stop in russia's far east this thursday moscow opinion had been keeping the details of the first ever meeting between the russian and north korean leader secret. go as invited 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. 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 walk 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 whose sister 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 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 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 our dialogue counterpart would not be but some of the person who is more careful mature 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 hud 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 wasn't really happy with that and this could be the reason why he's now arriving here in vladivostok and the far east of russia. writer and broadcaster mary does have told us the reasons behind kim's move. i think there are probably two reasons why he's going to russia and one of them certainly is to send a very strong signal to the united states that. north korea has alternatives it has other possibilities better relations with the united states aren't its only prospect for the future so i think there's that on the one hand on the other i

think it's quite interesting that. the american north korean detente those two summits happened without really any reference or. consideration of russia. and obviously all you have to do is look at a map to realize that. north korea affects russia's security quite as much as it does america's security and maybe a bit more so i think it's entirely natural that. putin would want to meet kim and five so first that russia would want to be involved if there's going to be any strategic change in that part of asia. 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 artie's 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 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 to. and edge of the dead against the against easy having on the fourth of april international intelligence agencies informed us that such an incident could take place in their

detail group who is named christian churches and 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 mass 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 the new zealand's history.

this is one of new zealand's kissed 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 it's 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 streaming the first part of his 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. already blocked major social media platforms facebook whatsapp 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 we spoke to the former head of the u.k. counterterrorism security office chris philips he thinks these attacks were prepared well in advance to 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 is change the attack location 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 has provided intelligence within the sri lankan thirty's it seems to have gotten lost so he doesn't appear to have been acted on well enough and we've had 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 links between facebook and the u.s. government the social giant media giant has announced it's hired the u.s. state department's legal adviser as its general counsel and vice president of communications the company says jennifer a new side will oversee facebook's global legal functions you said has had a long career in u.s. government with both the state and justice department 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 on its platform r.t.c. goes down and takes a closer look at the firm's fact checking and 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 posts 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 done 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 of saurus 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 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 digital rights group the electronic frontier foundation is

calling on facebook to crack down on the 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. insufficient to discern what we believe is a march logs isenberg beneath the surface we often only discovered the existence of law enforcement fake profiles months if not years soft investigation has concluded u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agents reportedly use facebook in a sting operation to catch illegal migrants officials created a fictional college called the university of farmington which promoted the enrollment of foreign students and after checking the background of those that applied they ended up arresting around one hundred thirty people. us government agencies and sister use of social media is essential for a successful investigations but facebook does every. 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 operates in fake accounts is not allowed and we swiftly act on any violating accounts activists tighe barry told us no fake accounts should be above the law the united states alliance horsemeat does not only buy only facebook lies it in it by elites our own federal state local municipal lots the federal government the local government even vigilante groups and the in the border states continuous violent. human rights for undocumented people in people seeking asylum here in this country i think it's become a hero of the united states of america wants to be the 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 agency to you are going to get a bad out there are no good big in there there's only me. the u.s. will now sanction any country buying oil from iran after scrapping its previous waivers all look at the ramifications after the break. seemed wrong. but. just don't hold. any. get to shape out. active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

housing crisis was a result of securitizing mortgages that were resold to dozens of times and then like goldman sachs was dead against their own clients and they were engaged in massive fraud again bailed out by timothy geithner it is 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 the friends of the central banks and the result is medieval let's. welcome back berlin has become home to some of the biggest criminal clans in the world according to one of the city's most famous bodyguards michael curry is a world kick boxing champion and while he claims to favorite multi-culturalism he's

worried current migration policies have allowed things to thrive our sister channel in germany spent a day with him in berlin. if they have a knife they are ready to cut and kill if they have a girl to ready to shoot. it there is a lot everyone has to abide by. their firm believes in berlin like. show crew these are big families well known in the criminal world but you can see all of them a criminal many have nothing to do with it. all. up don't look good it will be. kept open to one woman because i just did it because i was ps a lot of. i've been i've been in this business 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 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 as a result. we have to give these guys some credit the german government hadn't done enough to integrate and then 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 margin on business in one thousand nine hundred ninety four that's when the klan started expanding and that includes pushing aside local german groups and taking. under control they are godfathers now totally controlling us including drugs prostitution and shares of our money. police has an investigative group that deals primarily with organized crime among families of arab origin as well as a group conducting intelligence activities including coming into contact with him. potentially dangerous criminal and. 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 police given the opportunity to be independent i don't depend on any clan my clan. oil prices soared to six months highs on monday as the u.s. announced it will scrap all exemptions from the ban it had previously imposed on iran oil imports and is threatening to sanction any country that fails to comply flemming the sanctions as illegal iran threaten to block the strait of hormuz the world's key or oil route transports almost a fifth of all international oil out of that if threatened it would not hesitate to protect and defend the strait this comes after secretary of state my pump air confirmed washington would not extend its current program today i'm 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 those suppliers are working directly with the runs for more customers to make the transition away from reigning crude less disruptive 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 they had been put into place to avoid volatility in the oil market but pump out 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 power to panic spokes only a limited impact from the move and will not need to tap its own national reserves. iranian foreign affairs expert. believes washington is forcing tehran to adopt a more aggressive stance. the us is seriously escalating this unilateral economic warfare against iran jeopardizing economic wellbeing of even. people. who are on the wall and therefore one should naturally expect a stiff reaction from iran reach me in the form of implementing their threats industry talk of. the us is edging closer to war we do on using all kinds of excuses. that's

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this then i'm berlinger. craftwork hey what's up yes well of course you are quoting john f. kennedy when he went to berlin and said bin berliner to the people of berlin right after the wall was erected back. in one thousand nine hundred sixty s. early one nine hundred sixty s. and he went there to declare that the west berlin you know this is the area of the free world right and basically rejecting the wall there well i want to point out what is going on today in berlin because of the wall of bad debts especially on the central bank's balance sheet or less a metaphor exactly so i remember at the end of the last episode we mentioned the e.c.b. assets and so that's that wall of bad debts on the central bank balance sheet in

the european union that's the e.c.b. balance sheet. all this wall of bad debt this this wall this is the wall that we have to be concerned about because why that wall that wall of forty one percent of g.d.p. is on the balance sheet of the e.c.b. it's all source of junk junk debt corporate that all these bonds on their balance sheet and this is supposedly meant to cause inflation and mario draggy when he's exiting the e.c.b. saying he's still concerned that there's no inflation well of course it depends on where you're looking and he's looking only for his bank or members of this you know closed membership banking system of the central banking system german lawmakers consider expropriating private apartments to house the poor so there have been massive protests going on in berlin because in berlin rent prices have doubled since two thousand and eleven which is right when e.c.b. big.