the war on whistle blowers continues the u.s. charges a former intelligence analyst under the espionage act allegedly turned over classified information about washington's targeted assassination program to the media. coming up to a dispute over ups and europe over the process little to determine who takes over as the next eve commission president. beijing vows to respond to donald trump's decision to ratchet up tariffs on a further $300000000000.00 worth of imports from china marking another escalation in the ongoing trade war that.

good morning just turned 11 am this saturday here in moscow live from kevin with this 30 minute round high so that a 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 guy's name is daniel hale he was arrested on thursday he'd served as a language analyst for the air force between 2009 and 30 and in 2011 he was also assigned to work for the national security agency and given top secret security clearance there for now it's alleged that during that time when all this happened that he established communication with a reporter and then provided said reporter the documents stolen from n.s.a. computer is hale was indicted under the espionage act on 5 charges for. dated to

the theft the retention of the transmission of classified information each carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison press freedom organization reporters without borders far from happy with this they've sharply criticize the arrest arguing it represents a direct threat to investigative journalism journalism with more of the story this one is 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 accountable process for targeting and killing people around the world including u.s. citizens through joint strikes they all referring 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 that 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 the deps and 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 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 drone. 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 has 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 personal blowers being carried out by the u.s. government whatever tolerance there was for those who leaked classified information about government malfeasance seems to dog 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 processing freedom of 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. with those big e.u. parliament elections fast approaching debates broken out in the union over the process that determines who takes the top job at the blocks executive branch covering up and today europe correspondent peter all of

a. 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 convert it or leave condit it goes to the food choice of the parliamentary group that makes 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 munford verba is the heir repair and to claude young in all but name. not so fast says money will do the things we think he does the president is not an artist you go if you did no i have been clear from the beginning on this subject i don't think this is the right approach in fact this was something of a theme for mr mccraw throughout this week's e.u. summit in rumania he wants to see a change to the current system. if 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 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 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 list of better though 2 well he's already talking he's got the job so 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 ironed out to a european summit which will take place in june after the alimentary election as

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 rig. songs take place in europe well if you can reform the way directly elected positions are filled to the e.u. institutions well the us may be more akin to a revolution peter all over r.t. early. to politics expert peer manual to man told us why he believes there's such a rift in europe over the election process right now. germany issue porting more. bits and candied process why because of a modern political rather of germany is it federer sauvie understand better of a system and or saw most of the. busy 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 in this unit. there are more there is not defendable modern it's more more a nation state more there and they value more of europe and can seat of the council of ministers and at the end consider this is why mr mock or would prefer all. but head of states nominate. and negotiate for different positions. the us president does all of this trade chief to impose punitive tar of sun all remaining imports from china that's on top of friday's dramatic tax hike on around $200000000000.00 with the goods for america's top trading partner the latest levees come despite donald trump's claims that washington and beijing held positive talks

this week aimed at settling the differences. 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 intend to push ahead of the negotiations beijing has said the latest u.s. move will be met with counter measures china rejects america's claims it's backtracked on its any commitments breaking down all the latest developments in this dispute in own special way is in case you missed it. in case you missed it i'm a historic trade deal between the usa and china could be in trouble 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 bit that little bit tight the us is like the playground bully that notice that his victim has gone through a growth spurt and started lifting weights and just as an historic trade agreement between the worlds biggest record to me is 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 do 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 taken 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 do you.

thinking the us economy a year before we lose the next letter and i'm trying now with its 100 year presidential. limbo 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. alltel. pragmatism and all archie cats will continue to be made in china and you will still be able to buy it in walmart or on amazon using all the way. around the world keeps spinning will make time for economics professor richard wolfe suspects what's actually happening here is trump playing 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 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 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. suffering through a lack of pupils the next story is about one small school in room francis i can sum up as a measure of the stay open tending to divert in past years to make up the numbers

no less literally take a look at this. because a symbolic symbolic protests 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 simply clean wrote sheep since our children are being treated like rabbits. to order to come to the wheat. teaches regret the reduction of the number of

classes since 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 is small if anything. by september 1st we will definitely have one cause closed it will be difficult to survive this means that the rest of the classes are going to be overstretched. international coming up to months so there goes the asians in those much hyped summits north korea and the us is still on good terms. yet another the set of test missiles so what's really going on it's among the stories we cover when we come back.

it's a 2 tier conway there is to cater for the worlds that exist in america if i go into a big bank bank of america citi bank wells fargo bank and i say i want to borrow 100000 dollars and i want you to charge me is 0 percent interest rate on that and then i want the cause of that $100000.00 at your bank and i want you to pay me 5 percent and i want to therefore collect all that. get a tax free ok can i do that now but a back can do that. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be rich. to go on to be pros which is what the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water.

facebook's mark zuckerberg has voiced support for increased government involvement in policing content appearing on his platform he made the comment following a meeting with the french president obama crowd in paris on friday. we both believe government should take a more active role around 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 them coincided with the release of a report commissioned by the french president to cause all 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 of the company's vice

president responded to the report by saying indeed there are grounds for future cooperation chris kycia tech entrepreneur blog chain expert believes that the berg is again 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 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 us although i think you'd probably be 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 into 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 are put on the particularly intense scrutiny since the christ church mosque shootings which were life streamed and then widely circulated on the platform and earlier this week to to add to its woes the site was accused of auto generating extremist content through compiling automatically anniversary videos on the pages of dubious groups talking of which here are some much of that sort of content has been revealed by internet use is obviously we're limited but we can show you it's believed facebook's algorithms automatically generated this short anniversary clip without 1st checking the content facebook itself claims so that it is 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 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-mail to 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 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 sells that was despite previously criticizing pyongyang for the tests and casting doubts on the kingdoms willingness to continue 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 well the recent test on the korean peninsula saw the launch of 2 projectiles there were apparently short range ballistic missiles were fired from the country's north west in the landing in the sea of japan these fresh drills though the key here come just a few days after north korea took everybody surprise with a similar launch just last friday that launch broke a moratorium on tests that lasted for $500.00 days now on north korea described the exercises as regular and defensive but there's been strong reaction from its

neighbors japan in particular is claimed pyongyang has violated un resolutions with its actions while china has reiterated calls for calm on the peninsula one with. 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 park no one a senior politics lecturer at britain's bath university who believes the u.s. and north korea are further away than ever from reaching a consensus here. this is a new indication of a shipped off the north korean government after one another half year of silence on one hand north korea we class that you know has to stop send your name 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. lanka has set up a special police hotline for muslims to report harassment it comes in response to a wave of violent reprisals against the north and community in the wake of last month's terror 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 on easter sunday a string of suicide bombings tore through churches and high end hotels across sri lanka claiming over 250 lives islamic state claimed responsibility for what happened since then the authorities say they received hundreds of calls reporting abuse against muslims members of the minority community say they've been facing harassment in public and threats of revenge from locals have also been calls for

a boycott of muslim owned businesses risley women have been banned from wearing face veils under an emergency law brought in very quickly while many households have become the target of police during the investigations ongoing into the terrorist bombings masood charger a of the islamic human rights commission told us muslims are unfairly being singled out. on this trip this. environment of hate which is created associated these acts of horror or these acts of terror oh yeah we did mainstream was indeed demonizing the almost muslim communities for acts of you then we need to see and more division more as some more involvement of hate i mean you see you can't what happened in new zealand and the way that new zealand governments and politicians and the media address that is the way. they basically came out and this is the

order that was. the open the odds too didn't mainstream was in this yet i think we need to sort of retching us and individual activists hetero does not represent the mainstream community of muslim community or other committees and we need to isolate acts of terror not isolate this section of our society. creates 11 25 in the morning here most of this after they think so watching this right latest round of votes he said news i'm kevin allen from the rest and team have a great day 1

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not after times here we're going underground as the national demo for palestine much as across britain protesting tourism a military backing of slaughter in the middle east in violation of un resolutions coming up in the show is the u.s. 2 party system about to get caught in a gravel launch the 2020 u.s. presidential. they fighting to push politics left mike gravel on the importance of being loyal to ideas not policies and the shadow communities and local government minister chris williamson gives his 1st international interview since his suspension from gary coleman's ponty. chaos in a country damned by the un from a new tradition the right arm of the gentleman's question must and will be the speaker has to interrupt parliament because someone got the royal title of meghan markle and prince harry wrong all the smoke coming up in today's going underground fast to a man called out this week by donald trump secretary of state mike pompei and the

former cia boss has been in london condemning jeremy coleman for opposing washington's plan to overthrow the government of venezuela it's disgusting to see leaders in not only the united kingdom but in the united states as well. who continue to support the murderous dictator dictator madeira pump aoe in london that condemning the odds on favorite to be the next leader of britain as well as possibly the next leader of the usa because mike gravel opposed to u.k. e.u. u.s. backed regime change in venezuela is running to be president in 2020 why did they hate us so so many places around because we kill so many people want. to you have a certain arrogance you want to do want to tell the iraqis how to run their country we can get up against 5 years get off of carbon in years all we got to do is one. place get out of their country. and we insist on staying there the military industrial complex not only controls our government lock stock. but they control

our and my gravelle joins me now via skype from birmingham in california thanks so much mike for coming on the show before we even get to your campaign for 2020 what do you make of mike compare the u.s. secretary of state claiming in effect that you and jeremy cole been discussed. thing for not supporting a coup in venezuela well of course what he's suggesting that we should join in the murder that's going on in venezuela keep in mind with our sanctions that are going to be thousands of children they're going to be dying as a result of just who and how could he would a straight face talk about going in and pull a new crew off in the other country that i mean in that this is against its national law this. law in the united states and it can only be perpetrated because trump who should.