a former u.s. government security analyst is facing up to fifty years in prison after being charged with leaking classified documents on u.s. tactics to the press. human rights activist a time to blog france's shipment to saudi arabia as concerns grow that the weapons are being used against yemeni civilians. won't be if you are you or do you it is why do we continue to school countries that exhibit disrespect for international behavior and why do we continue to fuel the war i have no problems with seem these weapons are made to kill. and north korea's latest missile tested second within

a week raises questions in washington over pyongyang's interest in solving the crisis on the peninsula. it's ten o'clock here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international live from our headquarters with me. welcome to the program a former u.s. national security analyst has been charged with giving classified documents on u.s. warfare tactics to a journalist is now facing up to fifty years in prison for his alleged role in the revelation the press freedom organization reporters without borders has criticized the legal moves against hale saying that charging whistleblowers under the espionage act must end his all t's. well he's thirty one years old his name is daniel hale and he's a former u.s.

intelligence official and member of the national security agency and apparently he is facing up to fifty years in prison for leaking classified government information he was arrested in nashville tennessee now the indictment against him says that he revealed information to an unnamed reporter the name of that reporter is not disclosed in the indictment but that he gave that information over to this reporter who then published it in their book and that this material was related to u.s. anti-terrorism activities and warfare strategy now at this point many people are looking over the info in the indictment and seem to believe that it winds up with information that was given to the intercept which is an online publication and to jeremy scahill now that is not being confirmed at this point the intercept is not confirming that but some people some people are seeming to speculate that that's the case let's review what the intercepts said when asked about whether or not this was their source who was arrested the intercept does not come in all matters

relating to the identity of anonymous sources these documents ditto to secrets on the council process for targeting and killing people around the world including u.s. citizens through drone strikes they all rigged to limp or since the alleged faces up to fifty years in prison no one has ever been held accountable for killing civilians in drone strikes now the information that many people suspect of this matches is information that was revealed by reporter jeremy scahill regarding the u.s. drone strike program in which strikes were carried out in yemen somalia and afghanistan now what was revealed were classified government documents showing a fourteen year high drone strike campaign and how it suffers from a lack of critical information and how there is a high rate of almost uncalculated civilian deaths due to the. to that often there is a preference to kill the victim rather than capture them and furthermore that lack

of information m. is contributing to the rate of civilian deaths because there is an inability on the part of u.s. officials to extract valuable information from those apprehended and those in custody and those accused of terrorism the military is easily capable of adaption to change but they don't like to stop anything they feel is making their lives easier or is to their benefit but they have become so addicted to this machine to this way of doing business that it seems like it's going to become harder and harder to prove them away from it the longer they're allowed to continue operating in this way now the u.s. drone strike program which has been going on for over fourteen years has some rather ugly history there have been quite a few incidents of civilians being killed let's review some of what's gone on over the course of this program of the u.s. government.

as a rest comes in the context of a wider crackdown on whistleblowers as folks may be aware julian assigns the co-founder of wiki leaks is facing extradition to the united states there are hearings coming up in which it will be determined whether or not he will be sent to the united states to stand trial on computer hacking charges so at the moment it appears that there seems to be a crackdown on those who leaked classified u.s. government information and people are putting the arrest of mr daniel hale into that context. if we now is from f.b.i. agent and with a blow a cunning cunning thanks for coming on to the program now hale is the third suspected whistleblower to be charged under the espionage act by the trump administration. it was a law to designed to target german spies in the first world war and it's hardly

changed since that time in your opinion do you think it's really fit for purpose still in twenty nineteen when leaks reveal government wrongdoing. well of course not the there is supposed to be a lot actually that prevents classification of information evidencing a crime and so a lot of the classification over classification is actually to prevent people from learning about crime which is completely illegal it's very difficult to explain to people because they don't understand that you're not supposed to be able to commit a crime and then be able to cover it up and we've gone so far and and in repressing freedom of street speech and freedom of the press that people really are pretty ignorant about all of the stuff going on except for this ok tional you know documentary or book written or newspaper article with the help of whistleblowers and the government is definitely trying to stop all whistle blowing in all

investigative journalism that we live on any insider information yeah but if you look at people who work in those. classes they to is classified for a reason that must be a reason that you know the organizations wanted to be classified and often you'd have to as a member of stopping sign a contract doing it to keep it that way however there is a balance isn't it in these cases often to public interest national security what about the conflict. well you know you say you also are sighing you you swear an oath to the constitution and to the rule of law and so the constitution in the rule of law takes precedence over any secrecy agreement you can't sign as like for instance the meal i massacre i mean there's all kinds of cases like this you don't sign a law saying i will keep war crimes secret and so that's the bigger issue here

unfortunately it's very difficult like i said to explain and you're not supposed to even be able it's not public interest. it's public safety i was a whistleblower about public safety it's also about people whose own lives are being put in jeopardy due to excessive secrecy you know you're not supposed to be able to have a let's say a plane is made that's defective and plane crashes because of that well that's public safety and if you'll know about the defective part no matter the secrecy agreement that you have signed you have a duty to tell about it and unfortunately this repression that's going on that there's no freedom of press we will not learn of terrible terrible dangers even to our own public safety but from an organization of point of view how valuable is that piece of paper then for members of staff to have to sign it. well the paper

is paper that you sign a secrecy agreement i do agree there is a need for sometimes legitimate secrecy if it does not come up to the level of life and death or you know people losing their life savings in a ponzi scheme something like that if it doesn't come up to that level yasin organization has or is entitle to maintain secrecy about their own trade secrets except there are things that are legitimately classified but what i am saying is that in this situation now and you just explain that with the intercepts rationale this is life and death and this is also violating the constitution this is also violating the rule of law and the only way that we can get stand you'll ellsberg time we need whistleblowers to tell the truth about this the government does not want anyone to talk and therefore they are trying to prosecute all the investigative journalists like a son they're trying to stop on the internet they're trying to censor facebook and

twitter are ourself censoring there's all kinds of ways this is happening but the the first amendment is a part of the constitution and as thomas jefferson and the rest of them knew without freedom of press we will not have our crecy if we look at this case the news outlet who published the naked day says that while hale faces up to fifteen years in prison no one has ever been brought to justice over a drone strike attacks on civilians what are your fourth coating. well you know it's very similar to torture torture is illegal under international law international law and yet no one in the united states has ever been charged with having ordered and participated in torture the only person charged with. any relation to torture was the whistleblowers about torture the same thing is

frankly true about the drone body there's lots of illegal actions taking place right now you don't have a right to classified info to protect illegal or highly dangerous actions you don't have a right to do that it violates the constitution it violates international law i told you it's hard to explain to people the secrecy agreement is fine up to a point there are some legitimate secrets but not when it comes to our school are unconstitutional and dangerous to the public's actions that are being covered up right now ok colleen riley former f.b.i. agent and whistleblower great having a program thank you very much for joining thank you. human rights activists have been attempting to prevent fraud from sending any more to saudi arabia by filing lawsuits ongoing the child violate the u.n. arms trade treaty they say there's clear evidence the saudis have been using french weapons against civilians in yemen they claim the sales of their full illegal i

rounded them up on the administration complicitous other crimes riad denies ever intentionally targeting noncombatants protesters gathered in normandy and all the problems on thursday to voice their opposition to the government announced a new shipment. with this one called we are protesting against the arrival of a saudi ship that is coming to collect a delivery of arms at the port of course there is no doubt that france sells weapons used to kill in yemen and used by coalition led by saudi arabia i have. no problems with saying that these weapons are made to kill. why do we continue to support countries that exhibit disrespect for international behavior and why do we continue to fuel the war the question should be put to the president of the republic and why is it that only he can make such a decision he alone can commit france to war he alone can sell weapons to countries and every journalist an ngo share in there used on civilians as in the ship never

actually docked in france according to tracking data it's not yet clear why that is know where the ship is heading now pressure has been increasing in the french government since a group of investigative journalist published a sensitive military intelligence report last month it details the devastating effect that french tanks and artillery have been having in yemen here's our paris correspondent charlotte do. it's a wall that's left thousands dead and pushed some ten million people to the brink of starvation now it looks like more french weapons could be about to deepen the humanitarian disaster that is yemen wednesday it was confirmed there would be a minute shipment of weapons to saudi arabia which is led coalition bombing in parts of yemen for more than four years to keep. arms delivery according to a commercial agreement which was made a few years ago an emergency procedure has already been filed to try and stop the

sale of french oems to riyadh and its coalition partner the united arab emirates it was made by human rights organization off the evidence image showing french weapons were being used on the frontline and possibly use in war crimes in yemen we called for the suspension of arms transfers to the countries of the coalition led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates responsible for war crimes and even crimes against humanity in yemen the sense of urgency is driven by the worsening humanitarian situation in yemen a report by the united nations development program estimates the number of deaths at more than two hundred thirty thousand by the end of twenty nine thousand including more than one hundred forty thousand children under five if the conflict continues to intensify despite a classified and do your m a military note with feeling french weapons are being used along the saudi yemen border and that friendships are serving in the book a good many ports exacerbating the suffering paris continues to deny its world

look the government has never deny day existence of french weapons in yemen and the fence minister florence pearlie said it and i'll say it again today there is no proof the d.'s weapons are being used against civilian populations so enraged was some french m.p.'s by that dinoire they walked out of the assembly session for. once the world's third biggest arms exporter has so far resisted calls to halt weapons sales to riyadh it could also mean that france is in breach of the arms trade treaty that it signed that treaty aims to regulate the sale of conventional weapons to prevent them from being sold in the member state is aware of they used to target civilian populations given that the government has been warned how french weapons are allegedly being used in yemen some might claim it's turning a blind eye to the suffering while filling its pockets with saudi catch charlotte

people ski party paris. with emerick nonviable told us he believes the arms transfers reflect not at all well on the micron government the factor that paris supports a politically do circuitry regime is already shocking you have to know that french is an older. state. the french public opinion is not so really aware of what is happening in africa with the new korean knows and that french is a waging a for decades france abounds the endless stream of weapons of mission and software that would be kinda miss constance lee acquiring and what's what is new is that these arms delivery comes in full controversy on tuesday all are left wing lawmakers expects it to do a poly ment's in protest and that's that's pretty new. the rocky relations between the u.s.

and north korea are taking a nother dive president trungpa pyongyang's latest missile test and cast doubt over its willingness to engage diplomatically the relationship continues but we'll see what happens i know they want to negotiate they're talking about negotiating but i don't think they're ready to negotiate genuine peace and security of the country are guaranteed only by a strong physical force capable of defending its sovereignty. the recent test on the korean peninsula saw the launch of two missiles they were apparently short range ballistic rockets fired from the northwest they landed in the sea of japan the fresh drills come just a few days after north korea took everyone by surprise with a similar test last friday that launch broke a moratorium of tests which had lasted more than five hundred days north korea describes the drills as regular and defensive but there's been plenty of reaction from its neighbors japan has claimed pyongyang has violated un resolutions for

those actions while china has been calling for peace on the peninsula. to move on with our duty that we hope that all parties can continue working towards the resolution of the issue through dialogue and making positive efforts to achieve the denuclearization of the peninsula we had from dr pak and a senior politics lecturer at the bath university in britain who believes the u.s. and north korea have had a dead end in their bilateral negotiations. this is a new indication of a shift of the north korean government after one another half years of silence all parties has realized that each other's. own despite all nines the norway could be rich a consensus in other words they find at the difference a saw. to bowl and then on one hand north korea we class that you notice to stop send your name and where on the other hand you noticed this continuum persists to

ask north korea to talk or dismantle the nuclear and missile program both sides have to take responsibility but i think now the situation has taught us one thing more crystal clear before. sending a clear message to the world out now the situation has changed. and big meetings have been confirmed in the past few hours it's now official that the. u.s. secretary of state will meet with the russian president and foreign minister in his upcoming visit to russia. to tell us about. the announcement on the state department's website has it two days two cities a conversation with the russian foreign minister a conversation with the russian president it is going to be a busy one for my pump ale in this country and i can tell you that there was a rather long pause in direct contacts between top american and russian

officials and this trip probably is a sign that the two sides are realizing that the rizzle lot of catching up to be done in fact they have already begun doing it last week vladimir putin and donald trump war on the phone for about an hour and a half on monday this week the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov had a quick meeting with secretary of state mike from pale in finland but perhaps that was just a rehearsal before a much more serious much more lengthy round of diplomacy and if you watch the news in the last few weeks for you it won't be a problem at all to realize to guess what is probably going to be up for discussion to ron's decision to stop playing by some of the rules of the so-called iran

nuclear deal venezuela needs to be sorted out ukraine's got a new president and north korea's kim jong un has been to russia to meet a lot of more potent nuclear tests on the korean peninsula and so on as surrogate said in finland on monday it is time to get busy with real politics. stock markets around the world have plunged off to one. washington increased levies worth two hundred billion dollars on chinese goods when it came to trade negotiations between the two countries which the u.s. treasury secretary dubbed constructive doll trying to stating the u.s. is preparing to head all chinese imports with twenty five percent tyrus. tariffs will make our country much stronger not weaker just sit back and watch in the meantime china should not renegotiate deals with the u.s. at the last minute this is not the obama administration or the administration of

sleepy geo who let china get away with murder. says it will retaliate and has rejected u.s. accusations it had back tracked in the trade talks the latest edition of in case you missed it breaks down the trade tensions. in case you missed it i'm a historic trade deal between the usa and china could be in trouble lovely really. don't trump threaten china with trade tariffs again and i just predict disaster because that's what i'm paid to do every notice how many dissolved as i predicted compared to how many actually take place well it's a lot of the stock market took his cue anyway and dropped quicker than a teenage boys. to his little secret they won't tell you that he'd make just as much money when the stock market goes down as when it goes up it's been a slow process but every year the cost is trying to squeeze as america's dangly bit

that little bit tight the us is like the playground bully that notice that his victim was going through a growth spurt and started lifting weights and just as an historic trade agreement between the world's biggest economies looked imminent beijing decided maybe it won't change it's the old just keep the lunch money stay some other way you see the germans were doomed because they broke that rule. they broke the. broke the. thank you do that so they'll be paying we don't make the deal nothing wrong with take it in over one hundred billion dollars a year. just trying to get a better agreement and so are the chinese one could call it the art of the day you going to risk sinking the u.s. economy a year before he loses the next letter and i'm trying now with its one hundred year president. bush to choose public opinion who probably just play the long game and

start the whole negotiating charade all over again with the next guy in the white house or gal probably guy only one thing remains that communism and liberalism both worship. also. pragmatism and a lot of cheese will continue to be made in china and you will be able to buy it in wal-mart or on amazon using. the russian president has swapped his official attire and donned his ice hockey gear for a dollar match in the thought she night hockey league. scored ten goals as his team won fourteen seven he also joined he was joined on the ice by the country's defense minister who has been playing in the league since twenty trials and before faceoff this friday which the russian national team luck on they got off to a flying start of this year's world championships in a slovakia winning five two against norway.

now english football's feeling on top of the world right now or at least europe after causing two major upset as this week in the champions league dutch giant killers i.x. fell to london's tottenham hotspur while liverpool staged an incredible comeback and mighty barcelona packing into days on the touchline. takes us through the tournament's latest amazing twists and turns. one of them the first that he gets is the biggest one the biggest one of all so one of them will get that the pope would have to be hears and this will have been in his hand i have more of this sad sinking that one of them is going to lose

means more than the else more than anybody else more than the players more than the fans more than the all knows more than everybody else haddix and says sokol after the game they need a necklace such. because they didn't touch the ball in the second half and they were just looking at the wall ok let's go against our principles let's go against our philosophy but this is the way we have to hurt them i am surprised. that. they did nothing for all these screwy thieves. and from minute one until minute ninety five they play only with their philosophy and then football is not possible didn't surprise me and field of them surprise me you will gun didn't surprise me the relation between the team and the crew of the stadium and the players that empathy nothing of that surprised me. how

can possible to be surprised they were not also the team that sings we are better than them would have better players we are going we are going to win the game we are going to score a wall and to keep it there were not that took second ball and mentally even physically. collapse the ball boys in a good structure can also play a part i was a ball boy. the key knew what he was going to do. some of our lord's. you read the situation. from us that we well it's not easy ball looks easy but it is not easy and important that the zone was not there the first two guys of the first post door not there i really don't know what happened this fire and all these goes in favor of the people that saying. no player is more

important than the team the final liverpool against spurs who's got the edge. you. need for now i'll be back in around thirty minutes time with updates to stay with us here on r.t. international. a recent report from the u.k.'s foreign office highlights in detail the persecution of christians around the world in the middle east the cradle appreciate to be christians should think should why is that deve politically incorrect in the west foundational religion. this is

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on sophie shevardnadze they say a picture is worth one thousand words and that's probably twice the case for works of war photographers as their costs are says to find in tragedy captured by a camera lens while i ask is araya miller who documented the wars in iraq afghanistan and many other places. always in the sake of it but never in the fray always a witness never a participant photographers don't take sides but their pictures and photos of tragedies really help prevent them make people aware and do images of conflict really reflect reality. so ryan miller award winning photographer who put himself in the line of danger to document wars in iraq.