the headlines this morning the war on whistleblowers continues the u.s. charges a former intelligence analyst under the espionage act alleging he leaked classified information about washington's drone led assassination program to the media. coming up to european leaders local ones over the process that will determine who takes over as the next eve commission president. beijing vallas to respond to donald trump's decision to levy tariffs on a further $300000000000.00 worth of imports from china marking another trade war escalation and.

they good morning on am saturday morning in moscow my name's kevin irwin this is our international broadcasting around the world review of today's going good verse far 1st in those headlines in more detail of former u.s. intelligence analyst is facing up to 50 years in prison for allegedly leaking sensitive information about washington's covert drone warfare program to the press daniel hale was arrested on thursday working as a language analyst for the air force between 292013 in 2011 its alleged deal so was assigned to work for the national security agency and given top secret security clearance and that is the time it's thought that he established communication with a reporter and began supplying him with documents stolen from n.s.a. computers is the allegation hail was indicted under the espionage act on 5 charges related to the theft or attention and. and submission of classified information

each of those charges carries up to 10 years in prison the press freedom association reported to the board as that was criticize the arrest and stressed its opposition to the espionage act with caleb maupin this morning. 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 u.s. drone strike program many civilians have been killed let's review some of what has gone on as the u.s. carries out tom. good assassination with drones.

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 muscle blowers 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 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 crimes which is completely illegal it's very difficult to explain to people because they don't have to stand 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 in repressing 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 case you know 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. with a big a you publish it elections fast approaching page broken out in the union over the process that determines who takes the top job or the blogs executive branch or your correspondent speaking to all of their exploits mood. 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 in 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 air repair and to. in all but name. not so fast says the money will do the things particularly that the president is not an artist you kill if you did no i have been clear from the beginning on this subject i don't think this is the right approach the problem is while the french president has the backing of the dutch prime minister mark 310 others there are all those leaders in the e.u. that think the current system works just fine thank you very much. as i believe the process of electing lead candidates should be accepted by the people. german chancellor angela merkel is also giving her blessing to manfred for the e.u.

commission president however it's not known exactly how cold cream is should a better option come off the table just a better though well he's already talking he's got the job so the future european commission on the my leadership will insist the principle of sort of rule of law a solution is going to have to be ironed out to a european summit which will take place in in june after all the entry election that we've seen with this 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 britain a songs take place in europe well if the kid reform the. way directly elected positions are filled to the e.u.

institutions while the us may be more akin to a revolution peter oliver r.t. early. geopolitics exploited peer emanuel tom and told us why he believes there's such a rift in europe over the election process right now germany is supporting more. spits and candied doubt process why because of a modern political rather of germany is it federer soviet understand better of a system and or saw most of the. biggest number of m e p's invert national parliament from a national delegation is a german delegation france has a different id because of a of not but many. peas in your bed parliament for french people. they are more there is not a defender while modern is more and more a nation state more there and they value more. european concept of the concept of

an eastern and of the european considered this is why we still mock or will we for of but head of states know meanings of negotiate for different positions because v's not on me president of the commission. the us president has told his trade chief to start imposing tariffs on all remaining imports from china and out on top of friday's introduction of additional taxes on $200000000000.00 worth of chinese goods the latest levees come despite donald trump's claims that washington and beijing held constructive talks this week on ending the trade war. 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 the both sides plan to continue negotiations beijing's pledge to retaliate to the u.s. moves shaun has rejected u.s. accusations it but truck told its commitments in the talks because you missed it by

the way more the tensions force in case even if they are historic trade deal between the usa and china could be in trouble. don't trump threaten china with trade tariffs again an arthritic disaster because that's what i'm paid to do and i detest how many as i predicted compared to how many actually pay well it's a lot of the stock market anyway and dropped quicker than a teenage boy. oh boy they have a little secret they tell you that 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 china squeezes america. that. the u.s. is like the playground bully that his victim. started lifting weights and just says in his story trade agreement between the world's biggest economies look imminent

and decided maybe it won't change it just to keep the lunch money. the way you see the tariffs were because they're broke that. they broke their. broke the deal 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 he loses it and i let it i'm trying now with its 100 year president. bush to choose public opinion look well maybe just play the long game and start the whole negotiating charade well a very get with the next guy in the white house or gal probably guy only one thing remains that communism and near liberalism both worship the old.

pragmatism and a lot of cheap cats will continue to be made in china and you will still be able to buy it in walmart or on amazon using the way. you can always prefer the rich will suspect trying to play politics rather than actually trying to give the economy a boost to. 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 but on a longer way mr trump 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 from a lack of pupils one a small school in rue france has taken a somewhat bizarre measure to try to stay open and make up the numbers check this out.

sitting next to somebody get up out of it was a symbolic protests 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 enrolled sheep since our children are being treated like rams. go to school with we teach is regret the reduction of the number of classes but it seems 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 system it will be difficult to survive well if this means that the rest of the classes are going to be overstretched. change in times coming up after months of negotiations and those much hyped summits north korea and the us still seem to be on the face of it all good time to spot. yet another round of tests myself just one of the stories we're covering for you when we come back. seemed wrong. but all wrong just don't call. me call yet to say palin just did become agitated and endangered because the trail.

went something find themselves worlds apart we just of the common ground. we have a situation that is very new and that's why. it's like i feel it before there were 2 when people were dying but in the morning and there was no end of the school board you know the 2 so that the boy it was through to the right of the world. as a medical man the widespread simplicity is good code of people today. in many diseases because of this we do good because.

good morning starts international a saturday next story the us presidents claimed in an interview with politico that north korea's recent missile launches don't amount to a breach of trust as they were only short range projectiles that was despite previously criticizing pyongyang for the tests and counseling doubts on him it condemns 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 on the korean peninsula saw the launch of 2 projectiles they were apparently short range ballistic missiles of just saying they were fired from the country's northwest and ended up in the sea of japan the fresh trails come just a few days after north korea took everyone by surprise with a similar test just friday that launch broke a moratorium on tests than that had lasted for more than $500.00 days north korea

describes the exercises as regular and defensive but simply reaction as you'd expect from his neighbors japan is claimed pyongyang violated un resolutions with its actions while china has reiterated calls for calm on the peninsula. 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 more from dr pac-man wong a senior politics lecturer at bath university in britain who believes the u.s. and north korea are moving further away from a consensus. this is a new indication of a shipped off the north korean government after one another half years of silence on one hand north korea we class that you know has to stop sending and wares on the other hand you notice these continue and persist to ask north korea to talk or dismantle their nuclear program 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 his meeting with the french president maduro 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 provide more information about the workings of the social media sites and to hate speech algorithms the document was authored by a team of french experts who monitored facebook for 6 months partly the company's vice president responded to the report by saying there are indeed grounds for

future cooperation chris kitsa tech entrepreneur blog chain expert believes that a bug is now a can in a difficult position. is zuckerberg going to give control to the french for the people in france because as soon as he does it for microsoft 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 and 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 facebook's policies have been under particular intense scrutiny since the mosque shootings which were live streamed and then widely circulated on the platform and then again earlier this week the site was accused of also generating extremist content through compiling anniversary videos on the pages of dubious groups is not a magic thing but here is some images of that sort of content that's being revealed by internet users obviously with very limited what we can show you here is believed facebook's algorithms automatically generated a short anniversary clip without 1st checking the content basically facebook itself claims though that it's taking a tough stance on extremists by taking down their posts. after making heavy investments we are detecting and removing terrorism content at a far higher success rate that even 2 years ago we don't claim to find everything and we remain vigilant in our efforts against terrorist groups around the world 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 they're literally banning conservative people off of facebook in minutes i mean this 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 ai filters facebook has the whole thing too and so what's happening now they could block 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. the sri lankan government has said this about the celeb can government to set up a police hotline for muslims to report harassment it comes following

a reported spike in violence against the community in the wake of the country's terrorist attacks last month. unfortunately the muslim community is being harassed and targeted for actions committed by a few individuals this is pushing towards muslims could grow and there could be localized attacks that would be the danger. here's a quick look back at what happened there on easter sunday multiple suicide attacks left over 250 dead the perpetrators targeted a high end of tells in churches across sri lanka isis claimed responsibility for what happened there since then the authorities say they've received hundreds of calls reporting abuse against muslims members of the minority community say they're facing harassment in public and threats of revenge from locals have also been calls for a boycott of muslim owned businesses muslim women have been banned from wearing face veils under an emergency law brought into or many households have become the target of police during their investigations into the terrorist bombings the way of the islamic human rights commission says muslims are being unfairly singled out. all of

this we address the environment of hate which is created associated with these acts of horror or these acts of terror oh yeah we did mainstream was indeed demonizing the oldest muslim communities for acts of you then we see a more division more in a sample so we'll more environment of aids i mean you see you can't what happened in new zealand and the way that new zealand government and politicians and the media address that is the way. they basically chain out and this is the use of or there was some kid in the open the odds too didn't mainstream was in this yet i think we need to sort of retching us and that individual activists harrow does not represent the mainstream community of muslim community

or other to its knees and we need to isolate acts of terror not isolate and this section of our society. necessary more round up so far from our teenage cure moscow with me kevin oh and thanks for watching for me the rest of the team on cheating here today a great weekend. doesn't petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing the key economic issues facing russia emerging markets and the world thousands of business community members attend

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. through her to do nothing this is their comedy show or. in america covering american news are called foreign agents. after joe biden announced he was running for president last week c.n.n. came out with a bombshell report saying a new c.n.n. poll showed biden in a commanding lead among democrats in fact his announcement gave him an 11 point bounce leaving him head and shoulders above the rest of the candidates incredible unbelievable watch out pokes this time around joe biden is bigger better bolder and ready to run your show. yes yes. there's only one good see. below if you actually look at the c.n.n. poll that c.n.n.

is quoting they didn't talk to almost anyone between 18 to 49. that's like half of the america. yeah biden is really killin it as long as you don't speak to anyone who can still do lunges. by that metric congressman sestak multan is winning the race for the presidency if you only poll massachusetts white people between the ages of 30 and 48 who are seth moulton wife. and then c.n.n. runs with as i said mold winning even though the corporate media is celebrating joe biden like a 2 year old who's just learned how to use the potty biden has a few tiny strikes against him in the race for the presidency let's start with the fact that he's the only one in the race to have lost the race for the presidency multiple times. he is a step ahead of the others in losing big time his 1st run was back in 1988 when he

was perky young man of 67 years old. that run flop spectacularly after it was revealed he has been placed a rising lot. chunks of his speeches and this time around he's plagiarized the look of the old guy with the white hair actually winning the race right way i mean yes he's copying bernie intil 2 weeks ago joe biden had dreadlocks ok they did they did he was he was big into fish 2 weeks ago. let's move on to the fact that joe biden proudly boasts that he was friends with staunch racists like strong thurmond and jesse helms he even gave the eulogy at thurman's funeral at which the corpse was visibly sucked down to the fiery depths of hell. where strom thurman was horrified to find out hell is not segregated.