party of the weekend in the headlines the war on whistleblowers continues the u.s. charges a former intelligence analyst under the espionage act allegedly turned over classified information about washington's drolet assassination program to the media. speed to run signal up over the process that will determine who takes over as the next commission president. and. beijing vows to respond to donald trump decision to levy tariffs on a further $300000000000.00 worth of imports from china marking another escalation

in the only going to trade more than. hello good morning ted i am saturday morning here in moscow this is r.t. international thanks for choosing is 1st the 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 who was arrested on thursday worked as a language analyst for the air force between 2009 and 13 parity in 2011 he also was assigned to work on the national security agency he was given top secret security clearance and it's alleged that jury that time he established communication with a reporter and later provided him with documents stolen from n.s.a. computers hell was indicted under the espionage act on 5 charges related to the theft the retention and the transmission of classified information and each one

carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison the press freedom organization reporters without borders has already criticized the arrest though arguing it represents a direct threat to investigative journalism with more on the story this morning caleb maupin. 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 targeted 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 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 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 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 we lie sign any insider information. with as big a problem with elections fast approaching debates broken out of the union over the process that determines who takes the top job as the blocks executive branch europe correspondent peter all of his go. 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 include young in all but name. not so fast says 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 so i don't think this is the right approach in fact this was something of a theme for mr throughout this week's e.u. summit in rumania he wants to see a change to the current system which. we should in any case avoid agreeing on the least good candidate which can happen in certain situations we must opt for the

best possible candidate in order to ensure a strong european project it will be 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 because i believe the process of electing lead candidates should be accepted by the people. german chancellor angela merkel has also given 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 on the table list of better though well he's already talking he's got the job summed up the future european commission on the my leadership insist the principle of sort of rule of law a solution is going to have to be i undoubtedly a european summit which will take place in june after all the entry elections we 2 will be time because it's. not just the e.u. commission job that needs to find

a success at 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 micron's 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 peter all of our r.t. early geopolitics expert peer manual to man told us why he believes that such a rift in europe over the election process at the moment. germany is supporting more. spits and candied process why. because modern political mother of germany is a fit over soviet understand bit of a system and all saw most of the. biggest number of any peace 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 in this unit. they are more there is not defeated while modern is more and more a nation state more there and they value more of europe and conceive of the concept of weenies and of the european conceded this is why we still mock or will we for. but head of states not me needs to negotiate for different positions because ves not on the president of the commission. the us president has all of his trade chief to impose punitive tariffs on all remaining imports no from china is on top of friday's introduction of additional taxes on $200000000000.00 worth of goods from america's top trading partner the latest levees come despite donald trump's claims though that washington and beijing held

positive talks this week on ending their 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 though both sides plan to continue negotiations beijing has pledged to retaliate to the u.s. moves china has rejected america's accusations it backtracked on its commitments in the talks last edition of in case you missed it breaks down the tensions a bit more for us. in case you missed it i'm a historic trade deal between the usa and china could be in trouble really really. don't cha threaten china with trade tariffs again and i just predict disaster because that's what they're 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 q. anyway and dropped 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 bit 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 here economies looked imminent beijing decided maybe it won't change it and the old just keep the lunch money they saw the 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'll 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 art of the day you

going to risk thinking the us economy a year before we lose the next letter and i'm trying now with its 100 year presidential approval to choose public opinion will 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. old. pragmatism and a lot of cheese cats will continue to be made in china and you will still be able to buy it in walmart or on amazon using oh wait. it was more fully on line for most course you can always press ridgepole suspects troubles played politics rather than actually trying to give the economy a boost. 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 was some adjustments in the relationships between the united states and china but all along the 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. curious a story next suffering from a lack of pupils a small school in rural france has taken a somewhat bizarre measure the stay open turning to its verdant past is to make up the numbers no less.

sitting next to somebody who grew up out of the it was a symbolic protest organized by the parents of the students with a sense an 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.

those who can read we the teachers 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 teachers but from the parents and this action made us smile if anything. by september 1st we will definitely have one class closed says that he'll be difficult to survive well if this means that the rest of the classes are going to be overstretched despite the engineer to this $1015.00 the morning mosco time good morning coming up after months of negotiations in those much hyped summits north korea and the us still seems to be on good terms together despite the launch of yet

another run to test missiles how's that working out it's one of stories a. conway there is to cater for the worlds that are left that exist 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 there

a percentage restraint on that and then i want the cause of that $100000.00 that your bank and i want you to pay me 5 percent and i want to therefore. get a tax free ok can i do that now but it back to do that. again facebook's mark zuckerberg has voiced support for increased government involvement now in policing content appearing on his platform he made the comment following a meeting with the french president emanuel mccrone in paris. we both believe government should take a more active role around important issues like balance of 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 the meeting coincided with the

release of a report commissioned by the french president 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 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 it is again in a difficult position that. is zuckerberg going to give control to the french for the people in france because as soon as he does it for a macof 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 you 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 why 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 because facebook's policy has been under particularly intense scrutiny since the christ church mosque shootings which will live stream to them widely circulated on the platform earlier this week to the site was accused of auto generating extremist content through compiling anniversary videos in the pages of dubious groups here are some of the images of that sort of content has been revealed by internet users obviously with a very very limited what we can show you here is believed facebook's algorithms automatically generated a short anniversary clip without 1st checking the content facebook itself claims that it's taking a tough stance on extremists but taking down their posts. after making

heavy investments we're 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-mail to 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 block that if they wanted to but they don't they want to

block certain things that many don't want to block others so it's really a choice that's being made by facebook. the u.s. president has claimed in an interview with politico magazine that north korea's recent missile launches don't amount to a breach of trust because their only short range project that was despite previously criticizing pyongyang for the test and casting doubt on that condemns willingness to engage in diplomacy. 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 so the recent test on the korean peninsula saw the launch of 2 projectiles they were apparently short range ballistic missiles they were fired from the country's northwest eventually ended up in the sea of japan the fresh kills though come just a few days after north korea took everyone by surprise with a similar test just last friday that launched therefore broke

a moratorium on tests which had lasted for more than $500.00 days north korea described the exercises as regular and defensive but there's been plenty of reaction as you'd expect from its neighbors japan is claimed pyongyang has violated un resolutions with its actions while china's reiterated calls 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 heard from dr pat nunn was a senior politics lecturer at britain's bath university he believes the u.s. and north korea further away than ever reaching a consensus. this is a new indication of a shift 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 send your name and wares on the island you notice these continue and persist to ask north

korea to 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. the sri lankan government has set up a police hotline for muslims to report harassment it comes following a spike in violence against the minority community the wake of easter sunday as terrorist attacks. unfortunately the muslim community is being harassed and targeted for actions committed by a few individuals the suspicion towards muslims could grow and there could be localized attacks there would be the danger. briefly of the awful things that happened there on easter sunday multiple suicide attacks out of a $250.00 dead the perpetrators targeted high end hotels and churches across sri

lanka eisel claimed responsibility for the attacks since then the authorities say they received hundreds of calls reporting abuse against muslims members of minority communities say they've been facing a restaurant in public and threats of revenge from locals have also been calls for a boycott of muslim owned businesses was and women have been banned from wearing face veils under emergency law while many households become the target of police during their investigations into the terrorist bombings masood charger a of the islamic human rights commission told us muslims are being unfairly singled out. on this address the environment of hate which is created associated these acts of horror or these acts of terror oh we did mainstream was indeed demonizing the whole most of us and communities for acts of you then we need to see and move division more as some of your more environment of aids i mean you see you

can't what happened in new zealand and the way the new zealand government and politicians and the media address that is the way forward 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 individual activists harrow does not represent the mainstream community the muslim community or other communities and we need to isolate acts of terror not isolate this section of our society. and i saw her my run of so far from of his age kid here in moscow my name is kevin oh and thanks for watching for me the rest the team on today this weekend a great saturday. after

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