a former u.s. government security analyst is facing up to 50 years in prison after being charged with leaking classified documents on u.s. warfare tactics to the press. rights activists attempt to block on the strip of saudi arabia as concerns grow that the weapons are being used against yemeni civilians. why do we continue to support countries that exhibit disrespect for international behavior why do we continue to fuel the war i have no problems with saying that these weapons are made to kill. us president

orders tariffs to be raised on all remaining chinese imports worth about $300000000000.00 that is after he characterized of the trade talks as constructive china is promising to retaliate. for broadcasting live from our studios this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. right now a former u.s. national security analyst has been charged with giving classified documents on u.s. warfare tactics to a journalist he is now facing up to 50 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. have more. well he's 31 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 50 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 until matters relating to the identity of anonymous sources these documents detail to secrets on the council process for targeting and killing people around the world including u.s. citizens through drone strikes they all reverted to import since the alleged faces up to 50 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 14 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 for. 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 adoption 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 14 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 former f.b.i. agent and was a blower coleen rowley says making information classified is less about ensuring people safety and more about preventing them from knowing the truth. the there is supposed to be a law 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 in and every pressing freedom of sprit speech and freedom of the press that people really are pretty ignorant about all the stuff going on except for the so cation oh 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 would lie sign any insider information. human rights activists have been attempting to prevent france or from sending any more arms to saudi arabia by filing lawsuits arguing the transfers violate the u.n.

arms trade treaty they say there is clear evidence the saudis have been using french weapons against civilians in yemen they claim the sales are there for illegal and render the micron administration complicit in saudi war crimes denies ever intentionally targeting noncombatants protesters gathered in normandy in northern france on thursday to voice their opposition after the government announced a new shipment. put this on here protesting against the arrival of a saudi ship that is coming to collect a delivery of arms at the port of. there's 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 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 so weapons to countries and every journalist an ngo sharing they used on civilians. but it seems of the ship never actually docked in france according to tracking data it is not yet clear why that is nor where the ship is heading and now pressure has been increasing on the french government since a group of investigative journalist published a sensitive military intelligence report last month it details the devastating effects of that french tanks and artillery have been having in yemen here's our paris correspondent troy dubinsky. it's a wall that's left thousands dead and pushed some $10000000.00 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 4 years. the arms delivery accords and you

cannot issues agreement which was made a few years ago. an emergency procedure has already been filed to try and stop the sale of french arms to riyadh and its coalition partner the united arab emirates it was made by human rights organization of the evidence emerged showing french weapons were being used on the front line and possibly use in war crimes in yemen we call 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 230005 the end of 29000 including more than 140000 children under 5 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 role look 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 2 enraged was some french m.p.'s boycotts and they walked out of the assembly sessions. france the world's 3rd biggest armed this exporter has so far resisted calls to hold 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 challenged people ski party paris. french journalist to america believes that the arms transfers do not reflect well on the american government. the fact that that's paris supports a politically the circuitry regime is already shocking you have to know that french is an old. state where the french public opinion is not to really aware of what is happening in africa with the nuclear and there is and that french is a waging a for decades france abounds the endless stream of weapons of mission and software that would be kingdom is constantly acquiring and what is new is that this arms delivery comes in full controversy on tuesday all are left wing lawmakers expects

it's a poly mention protest and that's that's pretty new and. rocky relations between the u.s. and north korea are taking another dive president trump has hit out of pyongyang as the latest missile test stand casts 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 guaranteed only by a strong physical force capable of defending its sovereignty the recent test on the korean peninsula saw the launch of 2 missiles they were apparently short range ballistic rockets fired from the northwest and they landed in the sea of japan now the pressure drills come just a few days after north korea took everyone by surprise with a similar test the last friday that launch broke

a moratorium on tests which had lasted more than $500.00 days in north korea describes the drills as a regular and a defensive there has been plenty of reaction from its neighbors and japan has claimed pyongyang has violated un resolutions with his actions while china has been calling for peace on the peninsula. we hope that all parties can continue working towards the resolution of the issue through dialogue and making positive efforts to achieve the decoys ation of the peninsula. we heard from dr pollack. a senior politics lecturer at bath university in britain who believes the u.s. and north korea have hit a dead end and thereby lateral negotiations. this is a new indication of a shift of the north korean government after one and a half years of silence both parties has realized that each other's bottom nice and

despite i'm not in no way could be reach a consensus in other words they find at the difference a soul insolvent to bowl and then all my one hand north korea we class that united states to stop sanctioning and wares on the other hand you notice they continue and persist to arsk north korea to total dismantle their nuclear and missile program both sides have to take responsibility but i think now the situation has taught us one thing more crystal clear than before. sending a clear message to the world that now the situation has changed. president trump has ordered the u.s. trade representative to start the process of imposing tariffs on the remaining $300000000000.00 worth of chinese import that is in addition to the increased levies on $200000000000.00 of dollars worth of chinese goods which took effect on friday this comes despite the president earlier claiming that china and the united

states had held a constructive talk over the course of the past 2 days the united states and china have held candid and constructive conversations on the status of the trade relationship between both countries and all sides plan to continue negotiations beijing has pledged to retaliate to the u.s. moves china has rejected u.s. accusations that backtracked on its earlier commitments in the talks the latest edition of in case you missed it breaks down in a very unique and snarky way have a trade tensions. in case you missed it i'm a historic trade deal between the usa and china could be in trouble but really really. don't trump threaten china with trade tariffs again and i just predict disaster because that's what i'm paid to do ever notice how many dissolved as i predicted compared to how many actually take place well it's

a lot of the stock market to kids queue anyway and drop quicker than a teenage boys. to his little secret they were tell you they make just as much money when the stock market goes down as when it goes up it's been a slow process and every year that paula is trying to squeeze as america's dangly bits that little bit tight the us is like the playground bully that knows this his victim was going through a growth spurt and started lifting weights and just as an historic trade agreement between the worlds biggest fear economies looked imminent beijing decided maybe it won't change its rules just to keep the lunch money some other way you see the germans were doomed because they're broke that. 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 $100000000000.00 a year. just trying to get

a better agreement and so are the chinese one could call it the all out of the do you going to risk sinking the us economy a year before we lose the next day let it i'm trying now with its 100 year presidential. limbo to choose public opinion look 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 guys only one thing remains that communism and liberalism both worship. alltel. pragma tells them for them to or not have broken things to be made in china and you will still be able to buy it in wal-mart or an arm of that moving house are ok. economics professor richard wolfe suspects trump is really playing politics rather than trying to improve the economy. he will not get

a shot in the arm for the only commonly because this tarot war is costing the american economy virtually everybody except mr trump this is not a bad economics what this is about is political theater this is an attempt of mr trump to look like he's reorganizing the world economy so that the united states gets a better treatment than it did before what mr trump said he wanted in the beginning were some adjustments in the relationships between the united states and china. these adjustments are in all likelihood something that the chinese economy could easily manage and that the chinese political leadership is willing to give mr trump thought only way mr trump also got the idea that you could force the chinese

into making much more fundamental changes in larry economic system this is a mistake on the part of the united states and it is something that in any case the chinese government and the chinese society will not do. the u.s. secretary of state has some big meetings scheduled in moscow we have all the details after a break this is our 2 internet. it's a 2 tier economy there is to cater for the world so that unless i just in america sell if i go into a big bank that bank of america citi bank wells fargo bank and i say i want to borrow $100000.00 and i want you to charge me is 0 percent interest rate on that and then i want the cause of that $100000.00 that you're back and i want you to pay me 5 percent and i want to therefore collect all having i get

a tax free ok can i do that now but it back to do that. when i was told seemed wrong. but all the old just don't hold. any gold to shape out these days it's ok and in detroit it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. this is r t international now some big meetings have been confirmed on friday it is

now official that the u.s. secretary of state might pump air will meet excuse me the russian president and foreign minister during his upcoming visit to russia. comments. the announcement on the state department's website has it 2 days 2 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 2 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 and 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 . the 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.

russian president has swapped his official attire and gone to his ice hockey gear for a gala match in the sochi night league let me put and scored 8 goals as his team won 14. 7 was also joined on the ice by the country's defense minister putin has been playing in the league since 2012 before faceoff this friday wished the russian national team luck and they got off to a flying start of this year's world championships in slovakia winning 52 against norway. english football is feeling on top of the world for right now or at least on top for europe after causing 2 major upsets this week in the champions league giant killers i.x. fell to london's tottenham hotspur while liverpool staged an incredible comeback to send a mighty barcelona packing and later on our t.v. show some radio takes us through the tournaments latest amazing twists and turns in on the touchline his corporate.

one of them the 1st trophy 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 more than anybody else more than the players more than the fans and more than the all knows more than everybody else haddix and says sokol after the game they need a necklace us. because they didn't touch the ball in the 2nd elf 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 95 they play only with their philosophy and then football is not possible didn't surprise me and field didn't 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 be civil to be surprised they were not also the team that sings we are better than them we have better players we are going there we are going to win the game we are going to score a goal and to kill it they would not that took a 2nd will and mentally even physically. collapse the ball boys in a good structure can also play a part i was

a ball boy stop the kid knew what he was going to do then alexander are not. you read the situation. fantastically well it's not easy it all looks easy but it is not easy and important that was not there the 1st 2 guys of the 1st post do or not that i really don't know what happened this far and all these goals in favor of the people that syncs. no player is more important than the team the final liverpool against spurs who's cut the ditch.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle 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 of christianity christians face extinction why is it deemed politically incorrect to defend the west foundational religion. crosstalk in the state of christianity i'm joined by my guest it in home in copenhagen she's a theologian political commentator as well as founder of the you tube channel her own home talks in belfast we have david vance he's a political commentator as well as the editor of news media dot net and in london we cross to peter tatchell he is a human rights activists all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can

jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let me go to evan 1st in copenhagen. it really took me aback after the fire at notre dumb the way they talked about the catastrophe in terms of turf them architecture but the fact that it was a place of worship for christians was very rarely mentioned also after sri lanka 2 luminaries that bill clinton and i'm sorry brock obama and hillary clinton referred to easter worshippers well i don't know what that is no one worships easter but they were obviously avoiding the using the word christian in christians why is that go ahead. that's a very good questions because nobody has been able to answer that and so this last couple of weeks it's a big mystery why. i think you can say that secularists has seen christan as its enemy for.