that's the time to get. if you have that in it that you get. in the headlines this weekend the u.s. charges a former intelligence analyst under the espionage act alleging he leaked sensitive information about a covert warfare program to the media. european leaders locked horns over the process that will determine who takes over as the next eve commission president . and beijing vows to respond to donald trump's decision to levy tariffs on the for the $300000000000.00 worth of imports from china marking another trade war escalation.

internationally we can't just turn dates in the morning here this saturday in moscow thanks for joining us my name is kevin irwin 1st i'm a former u.s. intelligence analyst is facing up to 50 years in prison for allegedly leaking sensitive information about washington's drone warfare program to the press daniel hale who was arrested on thursday workers language analyst for the air force between 292013 in 2011 he was also assigned to work for the national security agency and given top secret security clearance it's alleged that in 2013 he established communication then with a reporter began supplying him with documents stolen from me and essays computer systems hell was indicted under the espionage act on 5 charges related to the fair to retention and transmission of classified information each charge carries up to 10 years in prison the 1st 3 to. organization reporters without borders now was

criticize the arrest though and stressed its opposition to the espionage for more open this morning. but many observers are noting that the information provided in the indictment seems to indicate that it's possible he could be the person that leaked information to the intercept and reporter jeremy scahill that was later published in his book the drone paper's however the intercept has refused to confirm or deny that this was indeed their source this is what was said by the intercept the intercept does not comment on matters relating to the identity of anonymous sources these documents detail the secrets on the council process for targeting and killing people around the world including u.s. citizens through drone strikes they all revised to limp or since the alleged whistleblower faces up to 50 years in prison no one has ever been held accountable for killing civilians in drawing strikes now the information that was published by the intercept seems to indicate that there is a high civilian death toll in the u.s.

drone warfare operations that have been waged for the past 14 years in afghanistan somalia and yemen they say the high death toll is due to the fact that there is a preference for killing targets rather than capturing them furthermore it is difficult for u.s. intelligence agencies to extract the information they need from terror suspects and those that they have in custody 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 pull them away from it the longer they're allowed to continue operating in this way. now there has been quite an ugly history of the us drone strike program many civilians have been killed let's review some of what has gone on as the us carries out targeted assassination with drones.

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 crimes 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. 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 recently chelsea manning was released from federal custody but it's expected that she could return if she does not testify against wiki leaks furthermore wiki leaks founder julian assange just now facing the possibility of being extradited to the united states to face charges of computer intrusion so many are observing the situation saying there is a big crackdown on her so blower is being carried out by the u.s. government whatever tolerance there was for those who leaked classified information about government malfeasance seems to be gone kaleb mop and r.t. new york. with the parliament elections. asked approaching debate spoken in the union over the process that determines who takes the top job or the blocks executive branch peter all of our europe correspondent got more. reform versus the status quo when it comes to who will be taking the european commission's top job

next under the current system called spits and candidate or leave candidates that job goes to the preferred choice of the parliamentary group the takes the most seats in the upcoming european parliamentary elections if we have a look at the most recent polling what this means is this well the a p p's munfordville is the heir repair and to john claude young in all but name. not so fast says the money will. do the things particularly that the president is not an artist utility did no i have been clear from the beginning on this subject so i don't think this is the right approach the problem is while the french president has the backing of dutch prime minister mark rita and others there are all those leaders in the e.u. that think the current system works just fine thank you very much yes it will be difficult to tell voters that there will be elections and disputes and kind of that and then leaders say let the people vote we will decide in a small circle among ourselves i do not see this as democratic i don't think it

makes the trust in the european union stronger i believe the process of electing lead candidates should be accepted by the people if montfort vapor wins the election then he can claim the commission presidency german chancellor angela merkel has also given her blessing to man fred bever for e.u. commission president however it's not known exactly how cold cream is should a better option come on the table this developer though 2 well he's already talking like he's got the job so i'm going to future european commission on the my leadership we'll insist the principle of sort of rule of law a solution is going to have to be i in doubted a european summit which. will take place in june after the parliamentary elections in 2 weeks' time because it's not just the e.u. commission job that needs to find a successor soon they also have to find replacements for european council president donald tusk and chief of the european central bank mario draghi by the end of this

year earlier this year the money will said he wanted to see a new written a song take place in europe well if he can reform the way directly elected positions are filled in the e.u. institutions well the us may be more akin to a revolution theater all of our arty early geopolitics expert peer emmanuelle tamam told us why he believes that such a rift in europe over the election process. germany issue porting more. spits and candied out process why because of modern political mother of germany is it federer saw the understand better of a system and all saw must of the. busy biggest number of m e p's invent national parliament from a national delegation is a german delegation france has a different id because they have not but many. peas in your bed parliament for

french people. they are more there is not defeated while modern is more more in nation state more there and they value more of europe and can seat of the council of ministers and at the european conceded this is why mr mock or will we for all of that ahead of states nominate. and negotiate for different positions because viz not on president of the commission. present from sort of the u.s. trade representative to impose tariffs on a further $300000000000.00 worth of imports from china that's on top of the increased levies on to under a $1000000000.00 in chinese goods which took effect on friday it comes despite the president earlier having claimed that washington and beijing that held constructive trade talks this last week 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 though both sides plan to continue negotiations beijing's pledge to retaliate shoes beijing's pledge to retaliate to the u.s. moves china has rejected u.s. accusations it backtracked on its earlier commitments in the talks now the latest edition of in case you missed it breaks down those trade tensions to. in case you missed it i'm a historic 7 trade deal between the usa and you find me in trouble really really. don't chumps threaten china with trade tariffs again i must predict disaster because that's what i'm paid to bear you ever notice how many dissolved as i predicted compared to how many actually take pay well it's a lot of the stock market to kids queue anyway and drop 7 quicker than a teenage boys. to his little secret they were to tell you they make just as much money when the don't market goes down as when it goes up

it's been a slow process but every year that paula is trying to squeeze as americans dangly bit that little bit tight the us is like the playground bully that notice his victim has gone through a growth spurt and started lifting weights just as an historic trade agreement between the worlds biggest fear economies looked imminent beijing decided maybe it won't change it lol just keep his lunch money some other way you see the germans were doomed because they're broke that. they broke the. broke. 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 troops 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 thinking the u.s. economy a year before the next high level headed i'm trying now with

a 100 year president of the hounds to cheat public opinion look well let me just play the long game and start the whole negotiating charade for a very good with the next guy in the white house gallery probably guy any one thing remains that communism and me are liberalism both worship the old. pragmatism and orange cats will continue to be made in china and you will still be able to buy it in wal-mart or an arm of them moving out of the way. economics professor richard will suspects trump is playing politics rather nicely trying to give the economy a boost here he will not get a shot in the arm for the only climate 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 really organizing 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 troth i thought all along the way mr trond also got the idea that you could force the chinese into making much more fundamental changes in their 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.

so for lack of pupils one small school in rural france has taken some a bizarre measure to stay open to make up the numbers check this. sitting next to somebody get up out of it was a symbolic protest organized by the parents of the students with a certain amount of humor the action showed that since the school district is only interested in numbers we symbolically inroad sheen since our children are being

treated like rams. go to school we teach is regret the reduction of the number of classes and scenes we will need to have more students in each class next year the initiative does not come from the teaches but from the parents and this action made us smile if anything. by september we will definitely have one class closed he will be difficult to survive this means that the rest of the classes are going to be overstretched.

gathered up back to square one after months of negotiations and those much hype summits north korea and the us again it all adds up to pyongyang's launch of yet another round of test missiles just one of the stories we've got lined up for you. seemed wrong but we all just don't all. get to say proud to stay active. and engaged with. the trail. find themselves while the party we choose to look for common ground. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted

or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to the press it's like a tree a boy can't be good. interested always in the water. pressure. by getting 17 moscow time the saturday morning thanks shooting to us so the us presidents claimed in an interview with politico that north korea's recent missile launches don't amount to a breach of trust because their only short range projectiles those despite previously criticizing pyongyang for the tests and casting doubt on the kingdom's

willingness to engage in diplomacy. their 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 so the recent test of the korean peninsula saw the launch of 2 projectiles there were apparently short range ballistic missiles of saying just now they were fired from the country's northwestern they landed in the sea of japan now these fresh trails come just a few days though after busy north korea took everybody surprise with a similar test last friday that launch broke a moratorium on tests that had lasted for $500.00 days north korea described the exercises as regular and defensive player reaction from its neighbors especially japan that's claimed pyongyang has violated un resolutions with its actions here or china's reiterated calls to for calm 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 have from dr packed politics lecture at bath university in britain who believes the u.s. and north korea are moving further away from a consensus in fact this is a new indication of a shift of the north korean government after one another half years of silence on one hand north korea we crouse that you know has to stop central and wears on the other hand you notice these continue and persist to ask north korea to talk or dismantle them. both sides have to take responsibility but i think now the situation has taught us one thing more crystal clear than before is sending a clear message to the world out now the situation has changed.

facebook co-founder mark zuckerberg a said governments need to play a more active role in ensuring users online safety it comes after is meeting with the french president tomorrow micron in paris. we both believe government should take a more active role in important issues like balance and expression and safety privacy and day support to be able to see and prevents an election interference reflect on their own traditions of free speech that meeting coincided with the release of a report commissioned by the french president it calls on the tech giant to prove to provide more access to the social media sites algorithms for tackling hate speech the document was authored by a team of french experts who monitored facebook for 6 months indeed the company's vice president responded to the report by saying there were grounds for future cooperation now facebook of course fell under heavy criticism last march for its slow removal of videos of the christ church take a look at bugs also found himself in the spotlight as many politicians are concerned over possible misinformation and misleading ads on his platform and to

those upcoming european parliament elections to president of the coin ups chris kits thinks that all this put zuckerberg in a really controversial position again. is zuckerberg going to give control to the french for the people in france because as soon as he does it for mark off he's going to have to do work for everybody else he's going to have to do work for merkel in germany he's going to have to do work for donald trump in the u.s. although i think you probably hate doing that and maybe president putin too so what's going to happen is he is basically he's at a point now where he is going to have to either. stand up and say we have a certain policy that we're going to enforce wyden and it's going to be legal in wherever we we operate or we're going to. just knuckle under and you know and what the people who are running each of these countries tell us exactly how we have to run everything and use facebook's platform to their own advantage he may very

well have gotten to that point now you may have been told this is what you're going to have to do if you want to stay in business earlier this week facebook was also accused of also generating extremist content here are some images. wiil by internet uses showing a power and extremist content it's believed to facebook's algorithms automatically generated a short anniversary clip the 1st checking would come to facebook itself claims its keeping a strong stance like stream missed by taking down their posts. terrorist content for example where we now have ai systems that can identify. and take down 99 percent of the al-qaeda and isis related content in our system before someone human even flags it to us well i disagree with that it works better i think it works better at censoring people who he doesn't want to hear from when you look at what's happening with facebook you know that they could police these things if they wanted to because they are literally banning conservative people off of facebook in minutes i mean if people are now being banned in literally 3 minutes after posting

something that facebook doesn't like and you have to understand they have artificial intelligence technology that's now working through this it's going through all the e-mails everything that's being done on the internet it's now going through these filters facebook has the whole thing too and so what's happening now they could walk that if they wanted to but they don't they want to block certain things and they don't want to block others so it's really a choice that's being made by facebook 23 minutes past 6 and already most good some good minutes and check out our website called if you haven't done so already it was a wealth of stories on their parents' front page russia complained to nasa rover a mysterious alcohol smell on board the. space 6 crew drug could visit in a way that was about a story about venezuela topping the bill also trump talking about putting those that extra tariffs on china that's also making headlines. the facebook story as

well very much that is going to touch of the show and you know on the touchline with. reporting. its own weekly you can cut stuff as well on our site. don't call me my name is kevin and thank you for watching this morning whatever you're doing and have a great weekend the time now moscow time at least is coming up to 8 24 in the morning this saturday. when lawmakers manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. to lose the real news is

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