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i. i. i i. will take place in russia as far east as they. have been kept secret. islamic state claims responsibility for a wave of deadly bombings in the east the sun the country's defense minister claims the attacks were in retaliation for last month's massacre of muslims in new zealand . the links between the us government and facebook has the social media giant. general counsel a legal advisor. disease and.
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if they have that they're ready to shoot. high profile german god reveals why it's so difficult to deal with the clowns making. crime. international i'm daniel hawkins wrote you are right thanks for joining us on the program. i want to support is growing over the upcoming summit between vladimir putin and kim which the kremlin has confirmed will take place in the russian city of light of all stock. so. the north korean state media reported that the country's leaders set off from pyongyang for russia's far east in the early hours of wednesday morning. news
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traveling by private train north korean leader left to a great deal of pomp and found arrival a lot of us talk later on wednesday artie's who was in the city for us ahead of the first ever summit between president putin and chairman kim. on any other day you would see a beautiful bridge behind my shoulder but now it's all completely covered in fog in fact the whole city of vladivostok is covered in fog which is i guess a perfect display a perfect reflection of all the secrecy surrounding the summit of vladimir putin and cam john whom until pretty much the very last day neither the location nor the date were confirmed every little detail was a top secret all that we heard from the north korean side was that the talks are due soon it's also. the chairman of the korean people sponte and supreme leader
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of our nation who 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
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a peacemaker someone who holds great influence over kim as it's believed she's often being called the vonn 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 il 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
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expressed dissatisfaction with u.s. diplomats and the even demanded that u.s. secretary of state mike pumpin know 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. right
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sort of broad costa maya jeff's q. told us what she considers to be 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 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
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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. because for as event as promised the radically restructure the country's security forces over their failure to prevent to use the sunday's terror attacks as despite the fact it received multiple warnings about the impending atrocity which islamic state and sues they claimed responsibility for that was joined by dogged 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
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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 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 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 in 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. 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 and we spoke to the former head of the u.k. counterterrorism security office chris phillips he thinks these attacks were prepared well in advance. to tank 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 influence by the attack in new zealand what we do know is that intelligence agencies were aware that this was likely to happen someone somewhere you know somewhere across the world as provided intelligence which within the sri lankan or thirty's it seems to have 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 and world leaders and top political figures have condemned the attacks and expressed their condolences the well wishers include two leading names in the us there were quite a party or president barack obama spoke of the attack on tourists and easter
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worshippers however many pointed to the apparent discrepancies with the aftermath of the new zealand mosque massacre last month when obama named the muslim community as victims the same things being noted with obama's former top diplomat hillary clinton she's also used the phrase easter worshippers instead of christians yet similarly of the mosque of sorts expressed condolences to the muslim community vatican journalist michael has them on thinks the discrepancy is part of a disturbing trend. i don't only have is it never ends in america in this very end the christian. democratic party with. you know who is antichrist an idiot reflect that in no other policy but for my requests in palmer and hillary clinton but even in germany so i mean why no what is just the way this is i'm a tactic against all of us which at this for sure at least against all of us christians and nobody says about peacefully praying christians were the
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victims and nobody says that we are all on the sides of this when i'm out rosa has horrible power attack so we have to raise the consciousness but what we are experiencing right now on an international level is the biggest persecution of fish . german kit works it's a un security specialist is warning that the country's criminal on the world is now dominated by very powerful foreign clans we'll have more of that just after the break. housing crisis was a result of securitizing mortgages that were resold to dozens of times like goldman sachs was their own clients and they were engaged in massive fraud again by timothy geithner and his friends and now they go of that controlled demolition of the housing market all the housing is concentrated in a few hands like blackstone as
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that's according to one of the city's most famous bodyguards michael. champagne and while he claims to favor multiculturalism he's worried current migration policies have got out gangs to thrive in the capital also the shuttle in germany spent the day with a. if they have a knife they are ready to cut and kill if they have a gun they're ready to shoot and kill. it there is a lot everyone has to abide by. there are firm believers in berlin like al zine omar at. abu check out show crew these are big families well known in the criminal world but you can't say all of them a criminal many have nothing to do with it. oh. it will be. because i was there. because i was present off.
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at. her i've been in this is in 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 they know i'm a fan of multiculturalism i always speak 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 clans are closely tied together they're like a hole you won't see anything like that in german families they can bring together
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forty to fifty people in just half an hour before the. visit i found in my business in one thousand nine hundred ninety four that's when the plan started expanding and that includes pushing aside local german groups and taking the lens night live under control they are godfathers now totally controlling out 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 you're not mom what your government policy
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completely filled 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 clan. questions are being raised over the growing links between facebook and the u.s. government that is a social media giant that outside the u.s. state department's legal advisor as its own general counsel and vice president of communications for the company says jennifer news that will oversee facebook's global legal functions you said it had a long career in the u.s. government service with both the state and justice departments she was part of the team which drafter the controversial patriot act expired in government surveillance
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powers after the nine eleven attacks and the new appointment comes amid a president of pressure on facebook to tackle the spread of misinformation and fake news on its platform. that of takes 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 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
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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 down for me. the. world spends so much time. training researching and informing 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
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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
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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 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
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one of their binding values is impartiality but sometimes that veil is quite easy to see through and i mean let me bring up one chart for you it was showcased at a separating fact. from fake news panel by point and i mean by different nisshin here the mainstream media and mainstream news are presented here as a victim and it's presented as an inherently one hundred percent truthful entity just cannot be fake news here and that's despite the fact that mainstream outlets have repeatedly embarrassed themselves with faulty reporting from c.n.n. to buzz feed ironically the outlet behind this graph but after all these story suggests neither the u.s. government nor the sorest like bunch spend their billions out of pure philanthropy and what this is clearly aimed at is to restrict the availability of alternative
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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 i mean while a leading digital rights group the electronic frontier foundation school of facebook to crack down on must use a fake accounts by law enforcement agencies. facebook's practice of taking down these individual accounts when they learn about them from the press or from. insufficient to discern what we believe is a much larger isenberg beneath the surface we often only discover the existence of law enforcement fake profiles months if not years so often investigation has concluded. this comes after u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agents reportedly used facebook in a sting operation to catch illegal migrants officials created
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a fictional college called the university of farmington which prompted promotion the involvement of foreign students after checking the background of those that applied they ended up arresting around one hundred thirty people. and u.s. government agencies insist their use of social media is essential for successful operations 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 operates in fake accounts is not allowed and we swiftly act on any violating accounts actress tighe barry told us no fake account should be above the law the united states alliance horsemeat does not only buy only facebook lies it in it by elites our own federal state local municipal lots the federal government the local government even vigilante groups and there in the border states continuously violently disarm or human rights were
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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 the internet but when you have an organization such great magnitude as facebook that seems to be complying secretly with u.s. spy agencies and law enforcement agencies you are going to get your bad out there are no good big in there there's only me it's going up to three thirty am here in moscow what are the international join us again in thirty minutes for all the latest satellite.
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facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark so. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very first character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be see if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair
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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle all about push and go is out in comics and he is in the presidential contest wasn't even close saying ukrainians voted for change is an understatement change is what ukraine needs can this political novice the liver what is next for ukraine. talking ukraine i'm joined by my guest mary the chef skiing in london she's a columnist for the independent in amsterdam we have case then he is a retired professor of international relations at sussex university and author of flight m.h. seventeen ukraine in the new cold war and in new york across to daniel was our he's
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