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i. also go confirms talks between kim jong un will take place in russia's far east on thursday the details of the first ever meeting are being kept top secret. state sponsored billeted for sunday's bomb attacks in sri lanka which took more than three hundred lives. are to investigate links between the us government and facebook because the social media giant introduces this new general counsel a legal adviser at the us state department. for the use and. the courts if they have a they're ready to shoot you a high profile german bodyguard reveals why it's so difficult to deal with the
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clans making hot bed of ethnic pride. have you with us this evening this is r.t. . to suppression is growing over the upcoming talks between putin and kim jong il and the kremlin has confirmed they'll take place in the city of light of all stock in russia's far east. moscow yang have been keeping the details of the first ever meeting between the russian and north korean leaders secret. areas in blood of our stock 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
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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 a little more than you do. the chairman of the korean people sponte and supreme leader of our nation. will be visiting russia city 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
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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 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 jong un and another rumor is that they literally had
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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 pumped but some of the person who is more careful in communicating with us mr pale though insists that he's still in
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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 and vladivostok and the far east of russia. right to broadcast and i need to shift he told us what she considers the reasons behind kim's move. i think there are probably two reasons why he's going to russia 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
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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 five subversive 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 korda is a world kick boxing champion and while he claims to favor multiculturalism he's
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worried that current migration policies of allowed gangs to thrive in the capital our sister channel in germany spent a day with 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. their resume or everyone has to abide by. their firm malazan burly and like. show crew these are big families and well known in the criminal world but you can see all of them a criminal many have nothing to do with it. all. it will be able. to one woman because i just did it because i was peace and love. so i've been in this isn't a since nine hundred eighty two there's one though almost every family even if i
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don't know someone they've heard about me then i'm a fan of multiculturalism i always being very positively about it wasn't because many found themselves in the criminal world here as a result. we have to give these guys some credit the german government hadn't done enough to integrate them 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 like the whole you want to see anything like that in germany. they can bring together forty to fifty people in just half an
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hour before the. business in one thousand nine hundred ninety four that's when the plan started expanding and their influence pushing aside low. german troops and taking. control 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 of arab origin as well as a group conducting intelligence activities including coming into contact with potentially dangerous criminal. government policy completely failed your thirty's totally under estimated at the situation it's all they're trying to minimize the
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damage but it's not an easy thing to do. by cooperate with the 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 claimed three hundred twenty one lives my colleague jackie discuss the issue with r.t. is 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
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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 dead against the agencies that have been on the full the 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 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
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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
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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 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 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 phillips who thinks that these attacks were prepared well in advance. tack is clearly a long time in the planning and possibly even
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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 to someone somewhere you know somewhere across the world as provided intelligence which within the sri lankan or thirty's as usual got lost certainly doesn't appear to have been acted on well enough and we had this this terrible attack what we've seen actually though is two countries sri lanka and new zealand both of which are generally very very peaceful most people who go to those countries would say peaceful countries where these horrendous attacks have taken place. world leaders and top political figures have condemned the attacks and expressed their condolences their well wishes include two leading names in the us democratic party former president barack obama spoke of the attack on tourists in
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easter worshippers and whether many pointed out parent discrepancies with the aftermath of new zealand mosque massacre last month when a bomber named the muslim community as victims same thing is being noted with the bombers former top diplomat hillary clinton who also used the phrase easter worshippers instead of christians yet similarly after the muskets salt's expressed their condolences to the muslim community in journalist mikhail here's a many things that the discrepancy is part of a disturbing trend. i don't normally have is it the rams in america was very into question. democrats having with. you know who is and how christianity is reflected in the world by the super bowl where rick was in the way. but even in germany so i mean why norwood this is the this is an attack against all of us which is this which were at least against all of us christian and nobody says.
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peacefully praying. over the shares but we all understand most of these. words of this horrible power attack that's all we have to raise the consciousness that it's being right now on an international level is the. questions are being raised over the growing links between facebook and the u.s. government as the social media giant announced it's hired the u.s. state department's legal advisor to be his general counsel and vice president of communications the company says that 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 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
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news on its platform. of 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 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
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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 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.
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africa latin america the philippines and the pointer itself have been funded by the open society foundation and a media network either. one of them or both together they've donated millions to fact checkers so what are they and why are they so eager to invest. now the open society foundation was founded and is run by none other than george soros who invested more than thirty two billion dollars into the foundation and this open society foundation is known to do exactly that open societies or meddle in the affairs of countries all over the world having proven to be a political weapon or source as for the the media network it belongs to another billionaire pierre media the creator of e-bay and just like soros is brainchild the
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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
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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 or i mean by different nisshin here the mainstream media and mainstream news are presented here as a victim and it's presented as an inherently one hundred percent truthful entity just cannot be fake news here and that's despite the fact that mainstream outlets have repeatedly embarrassed themselves with faulty reporting from c.n.n. to buzz feed ironically the outlet behind this graph but after all these stories record suggests neither the u.s. government nor the sorest like bunch spend their billions out of pure philanthropy 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
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to discredit alternative and 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 leading digital rights group the hit electronic frontier foundation is calling on facebook to crack down on mass use of fake accounts by law enforcement agencies. facebook's practice of taking down these individual accounts when they learn about them from the press or from. 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 after in just a geisha has concluded. this follows u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agents reportedly using facebook in a sting operation they were trying to catch illegal migrants officials created a fictional college called the university of farmington that promoted enrollment of
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foreign students after checking the background of applicants they ended up arresting around one hundred thirty people. u.s. government agencies insist the use of social media is essential for successful investigations 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 of this type barry says no fake account should be above the law. the united states alliance boersma 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 violent sorry human rights who are
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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 owner control or our internet but when you have an organization such great magnitude as facebook that seems to be complying secretly with us spy agencies and law enforcement agencies you are going to get your bad out there are no good big in there it is only. an alleged member of a far right militia group detaining migrants a gunpoint near the mexican border has appeared before us federal court the groups already detained one three hundred migrants in the past week alone. they're still coming this is crazy a little break here in a can. watch larry mitchell hopkins was arrested saturday by the f.b.i. over allegations he's a convicted felon in possession of firearms and ammunition the agency also claims
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that he previously planned assassination attempts on barack obama hillary clinton and billionaire george soros all of which he denies has been claimed hopkins was part of a group called the in one thousand constitutional patriots it's said to be predominantly comprised of military veterans are with guns and tactical gear operating in new mexico detaining illegal migrants the group started to post online videos showing their so-called work. the group claims is there nothing wrong and that there is a crisis at the border so it helps the patrol guards lawyer for hopkins also question why the f.b.i. only got involved after the video had been released the actions of the militia group have provoked widespread anger. regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone this isn't to reduce should not attempt to exercise authority results for law enforcement we do not condone private groups that take in force went into their own hands interference by civilians in law enforcement could
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have safety and legal consequences their actions undermine the efforts of our state to keep new mexico families safe this is no place in our state we cannot allow racist armed to vigilantes to kidnap people seek him asylum. well he's down holkins discuss the difference between protection and prosecution with international affairs expert george somewhere a political mistake. how is this a situation that's to be encouraged or defended in any way well it all missing courage then defend it on the other hand it is an understandable response to an except it will situation so it should waken us to the fact that the law and also little corage is. not doing the job that they are supposed to do it's not necessary to come here and step across the border in order to get an asylum claim considered much comfort and ease is given to them to do that without
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crossing the border so my problem with the whole issue is is that they are being your own needs to do it they're being encouraged to do it by the left by the democrat party in america it's political something has to be done about this asylum i mean it is it is absolutely ridiculous that people come in illegally they borrow a child somewhere use the child as a problem apply for asylum and then because children we also agree. that you simply walk across into the country i mean this is this is a this is nonsensical someone said the militia might shoot some more guys running around with guns is dangerous a lot of people in america have been shot by illegal aliens so what's next here you know vigilante groups in cities vigilante groups in other places take you'll throw to into their own hands without any sort of training without any sort of. experience be of about forty million military veterans with firearms training in
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combat experience are many of them trained in managing groups of hostile people one way or another we have as citizens people who are willing and able to do what the government is unwilling and a pair. leon able because of gridlock to do i don't worry about the american people i'm an optimist we have three hundred or four hundred million guns in the hands of one hundred twenty two one hundred fifty million american citizens no one was shot in america today no one was shot in america yesterday likely no one will be shocked america tomorrow the american people i'm talking about of the people who know and revere and understand the constitution they haven't really done anything terrible i mean all they've done is they've apprehended people crossing the border illegally and then having apprehended they called in the professional border patrol.
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