confirms. kim jong un will take place in russia's far east on the details of the first ever meeting top secret. the president promises to make changes to the country's security forces over there failure to prevent a string of bombings on easter sunday. investigates the links between the u.s. government and facebook is the social media giant. general counsel a legal advisor to the u.s. state department. the u.s. and. they are ready to kill 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. ethnic.

thanks for joining us this is international. and to suppressions growing over the upcoming talks between putin and kim jong un the kremlin has confirmed the take place in the city of lot of stock in russia's far east. moscow and pyongyang have been keeping the details of the first ever meeting between the russian and north korean leaders a secret. 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

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 don't you. 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 and seoul last. february during the winter olympics in south korea some people in this city have even said that they've already seen the limo of kim 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 oh 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 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 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. writer and broadcaster married to shift told us what she considers 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 it 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 five so first that russia would want to be involved if there's going to be any strategic change in that part of asia. because president has promised to radically restructure the country's security forces in the wake of the sunday's devastating bombings he said his intelligence services had failed to warn him that they had received tip offs about impending terrorist

attacks islamic state has claimed responsibility for sunday's atrocity that left three hundred twenty one people that jacqueline vega was joined by her colleague donald quarter for more on the story. 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. 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 detailed reports 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 day i. 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. of 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 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 phillips he thinks that these attacks were prepared well in advance to tank is clearly a long time in the planning and possibly even a month is probably not quite long enough to do that but of course what it will have done perhaps is change the attack locations so the attack was going to take place almost certainly where it took place that may have been influenced by the attack in new zealand what we do know is that intelligence agencies were aware that this was likely to happen to someone somewhere you know somewhere across the world

as provided intelligence which within the sri lankan or thirty's it seems to have gotten lost so he doesn't appear to have been acted on well enough and we had this this terrible attack what we've seen actually though is two countries sri lanka and new zealand both of which are generally very very peaceful most people to go to those countries with say peaceful countries where these horrendous attacks have taken place. german kickboxer turned security specialist is warning that the country's criminal underworld is now dominated by men sleep powerful foreign clans details for you after the break. what holds his hands to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be. to the right to be

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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 core is a world kick boxing champion and while he claims to favor multiculturalism he's worried that current migration policies have allowed 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 and they're ready to shoot and kill. their resume or everyone has to abide by. the refer milly's in berlin like. crew these are big families and well known in the criminal world but you can't see all of them a criminal or many have nothing to do with it. oh. it

will be. because i was present a lot of. 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 and i always speak 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 germany. they can bring together forty to fifty people in just half an hour before the audio. found emotional in 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 or 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 potentially dangerous criminal elements not mob government policy completely filled . totally under the situation they're trying to minimize the damage but it's not an easy thing to do. i cooperate with the police it gives me opportunity to be independent i don't depend on any clan my clan is the police. questions 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 as 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. and the appointment comes amid unprecedented pressure on facebook to tackle the spread of misinformation and fake news on its platform id's it has done 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 a 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 after in just a geisha that comes after u.s.

immigration and customs enforcement agents reportedly used facebook in a sting operation to cancel legal migrants officials created a fictional college called the university of farmington which promoted the enrollment of foreign students of the checking the background of those who applied they ended up arresting around one hundred thirty people. u.s. government agencies insisted they use of social media is essential for successful investigations the 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 because time barry told us that no fake accounts should be above the law the united states alliance horsemen 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 continuously violent. human rights for undocumented people in people seeking asylum here in this country i think it's become a peer of the united states of america wants to be control or internet but when you have an organization such great magnitude as facebook that seems to be complying secretly with u.s. spy agencies and law enforcement agencies you are going to get your bad out there are no good big in there there's only me. and so joining us on r.t. international my colleague daniel hawkins will be here with the very latest updates for you at the top of their.

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