moscow confirms talks between putin and kim jong un will take place in russia's far east on thursday and the details of their first ever meeting have been kept top secret. state responsibility for sunday's bomb attacks in sri lanka which took more than three hundred lives. so r.t. investigates 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. if they are ready to close if they have a they're ready to shoot to kill

a high profile german bodyguard reveals why it's so difficult to deal with the clans making birth in a hotbed of ethnic cried. for joining us this evening this is r.t. . and dissipate growing over the upcoming talks between vladimir putin and kim jong un the kremlin has confirmed that they'll take place in the city of light of a stalk in russia's far east this. disco and pyongyang have been keeping the details of the first ever meeting between the russian and north korean leaders secret. start for us 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 little more than you know 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'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 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 counterpart would not be but some of the person who is more careful in

communicating with us mr pompeo though insists that he's still in charge we also have to remember that the last long awaited meeting between kim john thune and donald trump in hug noid ended without any agreement being signed ever since then washington got back 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. watch from broadcasts that i'm married to told as in her opinion 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 as it were 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 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. putin would want to meet kim and vice a versa 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 according to one of the city's most famous

bodyguards michael couper is a world kick boxing champion and while he claims to favor multiculturalism he's worried that current migration policies of a low gangs to thrive in the capital since the channel in germany spent the day with him in berlin. if they have a knife they are ready to cut and kill if they have a girl they're ready to shoot. because there is a lot everyone has to abide by. their firm malazan burly and 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. gets it will be him. because i just did it because i was peace and love.

so i've been in this isn't 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 then i'm a fan of multiculturalism i always been 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 many of them couldn't get a job license for years and that's why they resorted to criminality. these clowns 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 marginal business in one thousand nine hundred ninety four that's when the plan started expanding and that includes pushing aside low. german groups and. under control the us good 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 of arab origin as well as a group conducting intelligence activities including coming into contact with potentially dangerous criminal conduct. government policy completely failed your

thirty's totally under the situation it's all they're trying to minimize the damage but it's not an easy thing to do. i cooperate with police given the opportunity to be independent i don't depend on any clan my class of. sri lanka's prime minister is warning that more attacks are still a possibility after the easter sunday bombings that took three hundred twenty one lives my colleague jackie discuss the issue with artie's 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 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 in their 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. i . this is one of new zealand's kist 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 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 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. world leaders and top political figures of condemned the attacks and express their condolences the well

wishes include two leading names in the u.s. democratic party some of pointed to possible discrepancies in the response from former president barack obama who spoke of the attack on tourists and easter worshippers in the stands in contrast with the aftermath of the new zealand mosque massacre last month when obama named the muslim community as the victims a similar story with his former top diplomat hillary clinton she also used the phrase east the worshippers instead of christians yet similarly expressed condolences to muslims in new zealand. i'm joined now on the line by vatican germiston historian because for getting mikhail or do you think of the release of language use by barack obama hillary clinton do you think this was a deliberate avoidance of using the word christenson and that's what many people think and if so why would they do that. where the first of all i'm not at all as surprised the. eight years of the presidency of barack hussein obama but he never

cared too much about christians which were persecuted around the world in the eight years of his president ship as much as today and i realize you know about hillary clinton is not really a christian politician in our. policy as. a live one pro of caution and against all christian values so we are not surprised that there was politicized do not really care about christian victims and just general terms but on the other hand the fact that the western media just crawled at it and consider that an adequate form of condor lens falls where it was on the consciousness are the media in the west interest the energy has a second degree a role if you comparator to be reaction on the however the ends of question. this

is a very big difference in the case of crash everybody's set in my country in germany as much as in the democratic party in the usa we are all and muslims and. there are many conferences to the muslim community or look at work where the cost of oil the killer of christchurch was not a christian at all it was a green equal fascist you can call him. and see his memorandum his manifesto all those. which is of course a pagan plays so there's no christian background at all in his. but they wouldn't dems they're muslims and of course the muslim bus uppers in the mosque and of course was a horrible event independent from which faith. but here you have a little illiterate attempt from radical must and obviously the islamic state now

claim. that. the sri lankan branch was the response of earth so we have christians were celebrated easter just a feast of the wrist rection of our logs is christ and in this public under lands as being not even recognized in bia and in d.s. christians actually be as people them are to us wherever killed because of their faith because they practice christianity as a christian you have to do it to go to work just as on easter at least i mean how many were every week that is a duty you have to go at least once a year to celebrate. their hunter is the action of jesus christ and they were killed during their religious duty because there were christians who confessed by going to the church so we really have to recognize this fact and this should not allow anybody with him but this bus the reason. these muslim

phanatic carolus. i would ask you about the phrase that was used by those two politicians that we talked about easter worship is i have to confess i never heard that phrase before is that a phrase that you're familiar with it seems if nothing else a bit of a clumsy one magnet although you know better are no east of us i mean east or star wars and ancient platonic got it and as he had us two thousand years old for sure about. the east of versa. nobody is celebrating is worshipping eastern you're celebrating easter as the feast of the reason rection of jesus christ and in their great parts of the world like for example in the art of the ox murder this is just called you know the feast of the reason christ so in each there's a term which comes from the pagan background of the put on a country's lake in the anglo-saxon countries and germany but this isn't the second

and these people were not killed because specifically the easter they were killed because we went to the easter services to celebrate the recent rexin of christ of jesus christ but you know we don't normally have this ignore ends in america in this very end the christian. democratic party works. you know who is and tagged christianity is reflected in in a lot of policy but i request simple bomber and hillary rodham clinton but even in germany even mass the foreign secretary airsick really a foreign affairs of the macula government. send it kind of ends as saying that he was functionally langkow some traitor shocking us in our hearts we are was the victims and well those who were injured. it hurts to experience so much hate it is is there's a piece of love which teaches us that hate is never

a solution well you know this sounds nice on the first bill but once again it does not save the victims which remain anonymous they're christians compared to the reaction on the question of the act that says the horrible terror attack in question were hitting peacefully praying muslims when people of a murder just because of a religion this is an attack on all of us the state will gather on the side of the whip them stay strong you will see them so i mean why nobody says to the. this is an attack against all of us that's at this. least against all of us christians and not what he says about peace for the christians were the victims and the what it says that we are all on the sides of these. two hours of his horrible counter attack so we have to raise the consciousness but what yet experiencing right now on an international level is the biggest persecution of bush. in the younger history

just in the last year eight thousand christians were killed because of her faith in the birth just about what powers and of them in nigeria do you have it weekly attacks on churches and christian communities two hundred fifty me and offered to me and christians right now experience persecution and war nobly as a way according to open door as much as an international organization which is monitoring the degree of persecution of christians so this persecution of questions especially in the islamic has to be recognised we have to recognise that there's a war going on against the energy in the muslim in the world and we have to do our necessary steps to protect the christian communities our presence and sisters appreciate your time this evening my guest vatican journalist and historian

thank you. there are growing. questions being raised over the growing links between facebook and the u.s. government as the social media giant announced that the u.s. state department's legal advisor as its general counsel and vice president of communications the company says that jennifer newstead will oversee facebook's global legal functions you stead has had a long career in u.s. government service with both the state and justice departments she was part of the team that drafted the controversial patriot act expanding government surveillance powers following 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 that is used on a fix 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 it effectively 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 player 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 that look at journalism as a true wow i wonder how many more journalism students are 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 a media network it belongs to another billionaire pierre media the creator of e-bay and just like soros is brainchild the network has been deeply involved in geo politics providing a steady flow of money for america's soft power ventures from funding opposition in other countries to creating puppet media outlets and there are plenty of other

donors bestowing their wealth upon 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 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 the story 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 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 of

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 would believe is a much larger iceberg beneath the surface we often only discovered the existence of law enforcement fake profiles months if not years soft investigation has concluded . it comes after u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agents reportedly used facebook in a sting operation to catch illegal migrants officials created a fictional college called the university of farmington which promoted the enrollment to foreign students after checking the background of those that applied ended up arresting around one hundred thirty people. u.s. government agencies insists that they use social media is essential for successful investigations but facebook disagrees. law enforcement or thirty's like everyone

else are required to use their real names on facebook and we make this policy clear on our public facing law enforcement guidelines page operating fake accounts is not allowed and we swiftly act on any violating accounts activist type very told is that no fake account should be above the law the united states alliance or smith 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 in the in the border states continuous violently sorry human rights were 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 control or our internet but when you have an organization such great magnitude as facebook it seems to be

complying secretly with u.s. spy agencies and law enforcement agency to you are going to get your bad out there are no good big in there there's only be. ok with that that's for you in half an hour.