only grow higher. temperature. control. from atlanta. war on whistleblowers continues the u.s. charges a former intelligence analyst under the espionage act alleging he turned over classified information about washington's targeted assassination program now to the media. coming up too on this channel disputed rupp's in europe over the process that will determine who takes over as the next eve commission president. beijing vows to respond to donald trump's decision to ratchet up tariffs now again on a further $300000000000.00 worth of imports from china marking another escalation in the ongoing trade war.

the day saturday here of moscow this is art international with me kevin our in thanks for joining hope your weekend is going good 1st that a former u.s. intelligence analysts 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 served as a language analyst for the air force between 2009 and 13 partly in 2011 he was also assigned to work for the national security agency and given top secret security clearance and it's legit is when all this happened it's alleged that during that time he established communication with a reporter and later provided said reporter with documents stolen from n.s.a. computers hail was indicted under the espionage act then on 5 charges related to the theft of the retention of the transmission of classified information each one of those carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison now the press freedom organization

reporters without borders has been quick to sharply criticize that arrest arguing it represents a direct threat to investigative journalism with more smalling here's 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 drone 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 enjoying 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 be a dog 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 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 and pressing freedom of speech and freedom of the press that people really are pretty ignorant about all of 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 the e.u. parliament elections fast approaching debates broken out of the union over the process that determines who takes the top job or the book's executive branch or europe correspondent peter all of it with more this weekend. 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 munford verba is the heir repair and to. an all but name. not so fast says the money will. do the things particularly that the president is not an artist you clearly did know 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. 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. 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 that is should a better option come on the table list of better though 2 well he's already talking he's got the job so the future european commission and 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 all of entry elections to which time because it's. not just the e.u. commission job that needs to find a success it 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 will vast maybe more akin to a revolution peter all of our r.t. early. geopolitics experts. told us why he believes there is such a rift right now in europe over this whole election process. germany is supporting more. spits and candied doubt process why because of modern political mother of germany is it federer soviet understand bit of a system and all saw must of the. 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 that many. peas in your bed parliament for french people. they are more there is not defeated while moderates much more in nation state more there and they value more. european conceit of the concept of mean eastern and of the european considered this is why we still mock or will we for all. but the head of states know meanings of negotiate for different positions. the us president has ordered his trade chief to levy punitive tariffs on all remaining imports from china verse on top of friday's dramatic tax hike on our own $200000000000.00 worth of goods from america's top trading partner the latest penalties come despite donald trump's claims that washington and beijing are held positive talks this week and it settling their 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 although both sides say they want to push on with these negotiations beijing has said the latest u.s. move will be met with countermeasures china rejects america's claims its back truck caught in its earlier commitments with their own unique take on all the latest developments in the twos and rows of it is probably boy here. in case you missed it i'm a historic trade deal between the usa and trying to be in trouble really really. don't chumps threaten china with trade tariffs again and i just predict disaster because that's what they did there you ever notice how many dissolved as i predicted compared to how many actually take place well it's a lot of the stock market took his cue anyway and dropped quicker than a teenage boys. to his little secret they won't tell you

that he'd 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 cost is trying to squeeze as america's dangly bits 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 and 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 the lunch money they saw the way you see the germans were do because they broke that rule. they broke the. broke the. thank you do that so they'll be paying we don't make the deal not the room would take it in over $100000000000.00 a year. just trying to get a better agreement and so were the chinese one could call it the art of the day 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 president. bush 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 or truth will continue to be made in china and you will still be able to buy it in wal-mart or an arm of that moving alcohol effect. you're funny alone an economics professor richard wolfe suspects trump is 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 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. thanks to his bit of suffering from a lack of pupils a small school in ruler france has taken a somewhat bizarre measure to stay open turning to verdant pastures to make up the numbers no less take a look. it

was a symbolic 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 see him publicly enrolled sheep since our children are being treated like rabbits. too although it's a week to teach is 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 us smile and menacing.

by september 1st we will definitely have one class closed it will be difficult to survive this means that the rest of the classes are going to be overstretched pity coming up after months of negotiations and those much subsegments north korea and the us is still apparently on good terms despite pyongyang's launch of yet a nother run to test missiles some of the stories so as we come back. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected

. so when you want to be president and should. want to. let you go right to be close this is what before 3 of them or can't be good. interested always in the waters in the. first city. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in. spearing dramatic development the only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

facebook's mark zuckerberg has said he'd welcome more support from governments in policing content on his platform the comment came following a meeting with the french president there was a palace on friday. 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 came just hours after the release of a report commissioned by manual mccrone who's been strident in his criticisms of the tech giant it calls on facebook to provide more information about the workings of the anti hate speech algorithms the document was authored by a team of french experts who monitored the site for 6 months the company's vice president responded to the report by saying indeed there are grounds for future cooperation chris kitsa tech entrepreneur blog chain explained believes like a book is again in

a very 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 it for everybody else he's going to have to do it 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 worldwide 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. facebook policy has been under particularly intense scrutiny since the cross church mosque shootings which were

live 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 anniversary videos of the pages of some dubious groups here are some of the images of the sort of content that's been revealed by internet users obviously we're very limited in what we can show you here but it's belief facebook's facebook's algorithms automatically generated a short anniversary clip without 1st checking the content is the story facebook itself claims so that it is 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 than 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 are literally banning conservative people off of facebook in minutes i mean it's 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 have 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 as they were only short range projectiles those despite previously criticizing pyongyang for the test and casting doubt on the mic kingdom's 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 a genuine peace and security of the country are guaranteed only by a strong physical force capable of defending its sovereignty. the recent test on the korean peninsula saw the launch of 2 projectiles there were apparently short range ballistic missiles that were fired from the country's northwest vengefully they landed in the sea of japan these fresh drills though come just a few days after north korea took everyone by surprise with a similar test last friday that launch broke a moratorium on test that lasted up to $500.00 days north korea described the exercises though as regular and defensive player reaction as you'd expect from its neighbors japan has claimed pyongyang has violated un resolutions of its actions or china too strongly reiterated calls for calm on the peninsula. to move on with no.

we hope that all parties can continue working towards the resolution of the issue through dialogue and making positive efforts to achieve a denuclearization of the peninsula. we heard from dr pac-man wong 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 in real terms. this is a new indication of a shift all for the north korean government after one another half year of silence on one hand north korea we class that you notice to stop centrally and wares on the other hand you notice these continue and persist to ask north korea to totally dismantle the. 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. so lanka has set

up a special police hotline for muslims to report her recent violence launch comes in response to a wave of reprisals against the minority 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 that 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 country authorities say they have received hundreds of calls reporting abuse against muslims members of the community say they're being harassed they say they're facing threats of revenge from other locals some for lankans have been calling for a boycott of muslim own businesses there's a women have been banned from wearing face veils under an emergency law that was quickly brought in well many households have become the target of police during

their ongoing investigations into those terrorist bombings the charger a of the islamic human rights commission told us muslims are being unfairly singled out. all of this we address the environment of hate which is created associate dean these acts of horror or these acts of terror oh yeah we did mainstream has indeed demonizing the almost muslim communities for acts of you then we we see and more division more it is some before we are more environment of aids i mean you see you can't what happened in new zealand and the way that new zealand elements and politicians and the media address that that is the way forward a day basically chain alt and this is day to support there was some contingency the open the alts to didn't mainstream muslim communities yet i think we need to sort

of retching us and that individual activists harrop does not represent the mainstream community be the muslim community or other communities and we need to isolate acts of terror will not isolate this section of our society. today 25 that's a saturday runner from artie's age came with me kevin owen here in moscow so far today plenty more to come in the coming hours of course on next programs a lot of you know part of the world but after the brain. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home

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