confirms talks between putin and kim jong un will take place in russia's far east on thursday the details of the first ever meeting being top secret. islamic states claim sponsibility for sunday's bomb attacks in sri lanka which took more than three hundred lives. best case the links between the us government and facebook the social media giant introduces this new general counsel a legal adviser at the u.s. state department. if they have it they're ready to shoot and kill a high profile german bodyguard reveals why it's so difficult to deal with the

plans making. this joining us this evening this is arctic. and dissipate growing over the upcoming talks between. the kremlin has confirmed that they will take place in the city of lot of stock in russia's far east this thursday. moscow have been keeping the details of the first ever meeting between the russian and north korean leaders a secret. start following 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 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 conjunction 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 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 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 in communicating with us mr patel 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 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 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. russia broadcast the married to jeff ski told us the reasons in her opinion 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. the american north korean detente those two summits happened without really any reference or any. 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. porton would want to meet kim and five that russia would want to be involved if there's going to be any strategic change in that part of asia. 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. world kick boxing champion and while he claims to favor multiculturalism he's worried current migration policies of allow gangs to thrive in the capital 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 there ready to shoot and kill. because there is a lot everyone has to abide by. the refer like. show crew these are good. in the criminal world but you can see all of them a criminal many have nothing to do with it. all as knowledge or don't look good or it will be. because i was. because i was peace and love.

as i've been in this is in this 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 be a very positively about it wasn't because many found themselves in the criminal world in 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 germany. they can bring together forty

to fifty people in just half an hour before the. business in one thousand nine hundred ninety four that's when the plan started expanding and their influence pushing 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. police has an investigative group that deals primarily with organized crime among families on arab origin as well as a group conducting intel. including coming into contact with potentially dangerous criminal you are not mark what your government's policy completely filled. totally

. the situation it's all trying to minimize the damage but it's not easy if you want to do. my cooperate with police opportunity to be independent when i don't depend on any clan my clan and lots of. questions being raised over the growing links between facebook and the us government says the social media giant announced its hired the us state department legal adviser this is general counsel and vice president of communications the company says that jennifer unused will oversee facebook's global legal functions you said is a long career in the u.s. government service with both the state and justice departments is part of the team that drafted the controversial patriot act expanding government surveillance powers following nine eleven attacks. well the new appointment comes amid unprecedented

pressure on facebook to tackle the spread of misinformation and fake news on his platform that he's done it takes a closer look now 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 new spokes 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 journalist 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 from. the. world. so it's time. training researching and informing journalists that look at journalism as a 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.

then 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 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 it was showcased at a separating fact from fake news panel by pointer and i mean by different mission here the mainstream media and mainstream nubes 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 if they move according to their own fact checkers which are very very biased. so lanka's prime minister is warning that more attacks are still a possibility to the easter sunday bombings that claimed three hundred twenty one lives gently discuss the issue with donald 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 kist day. 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 live stream the first part of his terrorist attack and actually took authorities quite a while to take it down off the internet and in the case of sri lanka and thirty's 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. the serbian government is donating one million euro to which the world is not today and cathedral heavily damaged by fire last week the great says the nation will confirm a century old friendship with the french people the cathedral has already raised

more than one billion dollars for its restoration. let's bring in some guests to discuss this in a bit more detail and joined on the line by john loudon who's a former state senator from missouri new poll to news journalist and social commentator for you good evening to you both and thanks for coming on r.t. so new to you first talking about this one million euro donation from serbia critics say countries such as shouldn't be giving such large sums of money away to western nations particularly for restoring buildings that they should be spending on the people who are in need of help in their own countries or do you think. abs absolutely i think everything that happened last week tells us so much about how the globalist the neil neo liberals work the fact is that you know the billionaires they've rushed in we've seen all over the show ponying they their one upmanship each other you know each other on who's giving the most but the reality is two years ago you couldn't get a crumb out of them to restore not not today it was falling apart it was completely

developer data there were many problems with their french government wasn't interested catholic church sort of wiping their hands of there certainly the billionaires were not interested in paying a decent proportionate amount of taxes that the restoration would have taken place anyway so yeah i think the whole thing has been fairly outrageous when you know that there's a twenty one percent increase in homelessness in france and as i say these billionaires rush in so we can see what is really you know it is entirely outrageous and very wrong what do you make of that assessment john. well i admire the chutzpah of anybody so boldly proclaiming what other people should do with their money where i come from you do what you are with your money i do what i want with mine is long as you're paying your taxes you've got no say in what i do. every night when probably answer is suffering almost please i didn't interrupt you

when france is suffering our most. a thousand churches a year vandalized i think it's a beautiful expression of not being bullied that people would step up and say we're going to rebuild these churches you but if we lose a beautiful symbol like this we'll rebuild it and will proudly rebuild it and i think it's a beautiful thing that people are doing this with their own money. part of what john said he said as long as people pay the taxes they can do the line with the money some of the richest men in front of given very sizable will probably a sizable donations the criticism is its laws tax deductible and the critics say this is just for show and actually they're giving very little what do you think of that. well first of all there is an issue about it being tax deductible but you know you're absolutely right what your guest says about the chutzpah of me saying what people should do with their own money if it were their own need that money the fact is oftentimes these people these corporations have billionaires off the backs

of people like you and i so it is entirely outrageous and i detect the american accent there i wonder what this i wonder what this gentleman is doing about the black churches in america the hosking for help to rebuild or is it just huge historic buildings that he's interested in that are related to you know predominantly white christianity. well it didn't take long for the neo marxism to come out it's built any time anybody makes a profit it must be because he gave it to the sacrificed for it you know those those people that these people made their money i suspect the old fashioned way they earned it and if they were providing jobs in the process all the better and i was just actually visiting with a black pastor who's church was shot up and thank you very much he's lived to tell about it is an amazing testimony and and i suspect that his church is better and

stronger. and ever before and with lots of help black and white so we do have a tradition in the christian church of being colorblind we support anybody any church that's in trouble we're going to come to and start with the red cross bless america yes i'm from america and i'm proud of it so new what would you like to see money what is. money being donated all maybe just my question though that answer what about the money to be spent on this third. well certainly you know that some of those billionaires they could radically hunger in several small countries if they wanted to with you know the click of a button but they choose not to and again i would argue that that is not their money some of those donators of arrange their tax affairs in such a way that they're now paying through belgium which only has four percent of tax as opposed to twenty percent of tax which they should be paying in france so i think

one really needs to make sure they have their research in order for they start shouting about me being some sort of marxist which i'm certainly not but i am somebody who believes that we should have greater equality in this well we just learn to england for example that one percent of people over fifty percent of the land that's just so yes we need a better distribution of quality equality absolutely the homeless we need to take care of where the catholic church is this would not trade down fabulously wealthy of course and much to atone for let's be frank so you know i just think it's really outrageous we need to take care of people who genuinely need help i would allow every historically rich building to crumble to the ground and put people in animals way over that john oates want to bring in emmanuel if i may at this point. the french ministry of culture owns not cathedral is it not if nothing else embarrassing boys' toys the french government asking for donations from its own

people from abroad should they be taken care. of their own problems and also what about sparing the thought for the people or friends of many of who've been out protesting on the streets for better lives for themselves and then they see this situation now how it's going towards a building instead of the people. well you know certainly there is an irony there that the socialist mccrone has presiding over so much on rest and an inability and really frankly a bankrupt financially and culturally bankrupt nation france is struggling on all fronts and you know a lot of times there's there's an event like this that turns out well for somebody like that it distracts from his problems from the yellowjackets the yellowjacket protests i'm sure he's in a way glad that this is happening because it provides him a rallying point and he desperately needs it because he's doing a terrible job with france and maybe he like your guest maybe he doesn't realize

that he's a socialist but when you talk about letting buildings crumble and redistributing the money and bringing more equality coerced by government that's the definition of socialism and real close to actual marxism so. you know. self. so in your eye are you going to it's not to go ahead. it really is it really isn't the case of i genuinely believe in people before profit i mean it's really that simple i don't understand why that should be complex you know if we see. even i mean i mean i mean i mean listen to you i mean i've done so many t.v. debates i know that when people either resort to soft casm or attacks it's because they've run out of an argument they simply haven't we already know that your research is poor so but that's ok because i will be patient with you because we need to get to the nub of this the nub of basis we live in an entirely new cool. we

need to balance out what happened last week was a bunch of show pony is your just sort of supporting them i wouldn't personally want to die on a hill that would support a bunch of billionaires who as i say arrange their tax affairs in such a way that they're not even paying into the economy when they should macron i'd hardly call him a socialist we're talking about a neo liberal globalist i mean so as i say you know you and i certainly are singing from the same sheet but the one thing i upset you know and stand by and i don't believe in particular labels but what i actually stand by is that people always before profit and certainly before historic buildings and surely just want to come back to. when you have time for just the right things i just want to make the comparison if we look at the deadly three hundred plus people dying in terrorist bombings in sri lanka compare that to the not to fire. according to google trends the number of people searching online for information way more people many times more interested not to dumb far than the deficit of

a hundred people is that something that we should be worried about. i don't think so i think what we should be worried about is churches get christian churches targeted around the world this is a story that gets very little reporting relatively and i know your guests would rather see riding shelves of churches and our major cities because i am going to go out at a limit of soup she's an atheist or agnostic at best but most of the world would like to see these churches rebuild because of late there's no greater force for good and helping the poor in a country more good force for good in the world than the christian church and that is absent home for us or seems to appreciate facts ok we just got time to let you have you know i don't invite things up that isn't fact well well i mean obviously i don't think we're getting into

a religious conversation here but the idea that you know religion says so great romping all over the world and great saviors and everything you know i mean it's just just the opposite ridiculous the truth is i maintain what i say and that is that money should be better placed given to people who truly need it the catholic church or the french government should be picking up not to dab and as for those billionaires they need to be taking care of their tax affairs and not acting as if they're here is great saying if yes when in fact we wouldn't be in this position in the first place if they acted responsibly i think from both sides of the debate as a place that you took the time to come and join us my guest john lott and former u.s. state senator new polls and journalist social commentator thank you guys. thanks to you guys for joining us here this evening on to international updates on the top stories for you in half an hour.