through diddler. headlining this weekend 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. at a speech a ruckus in europe over the process that will determine who takes over as the next commission president. and. 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.

hi good afternoon thanks for choosing out international live from h.q. in moscow here which is 11 pm this saturday my name's kevin now in a former u.s. intelligence analyst is facing up to 50 years in prison is our top story for allegedly leaking sensitive information about washington's covert drone warfare program to the press daniel hale who was arrested on thursday served as a language analyst for the air force between 292030 it's alleged 2011 while he was assigned to work for the national security agency and given top secret security clearance that all this happened it's alleged during the time that the he established communication with a reporter and then provided said reporter with documents stolen from n.s.a. computers hale was indicted on the espionage act on 5 charges related to the theft of the retention of the transmission of classified it. from asia he's one of those

carries a 10 year prison term the press freedom organization reporters without borders though has sharply criticized his arrest arguing it represents a direct threat to investigative journalism with more on this story this weekend caleb maupin though. 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 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 target. 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 a son 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 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 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. to the e.u. parliament elections fast approaching debates broken out in the union over the process that determines who takes the top job but the blogs the executive branch is all your correspondent peter all of. 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 air repair and to john claude young in all but name. not so fast says the money will do the things we think he does the president is not an artist you can only be 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 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 jobs of 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 today european summit which will take place in june after all the entry elections we've seen with this time because it's . not just the e.u. commission job that needs to find a success 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 said he wanted to see a new songs take place in europe well if the kid reform the way directly elected positions are filled with the e.u. institutions well the us may be more akin to a revolution peter all of our r.t. early so what he used is the best way forward a should there be changes bring in june a political analyst way to rothesay their time what are the key objections to this so-called lead candidate mode jim is not very good but spits in candidate system what could the alternative be if that's not like to me more well in my understanding that some kind of dart or league league candidate system is a kind of democracy simulation because the citizens cannot directly choose which candidate is the best option who represents best the people's interests so it's

a party issue the parties before hand select their most appropriate what they think is most how to democracy simulation when the people on that actually have a direct say. yeah well they have a direct say only in choosing for a certain party and the party before hand has picked their best candidate which best represents their own interests party interests and this is quite dysfunctional because even in germany we can see that mounted diva as the german kind of lead candidate for the e.p. p. is fighting against german interests just to get votes from for example east european parties when he says that north stream to pipeline should be stopped as it has been finished now and it's in strong german interest to continue with this work so it's quite dysfunctional this way of thinking of their candidate for their

previous president of the commission what about the people that said this current system has benefits is supposed to make election campaigning more dynamic more engaging does they are is it was the idea behind it but we could see in fact that in germany for example it polls only 26 percent of the surveyed people say that they know a monthly ybor and even that kind of york might turn off $24.00 germany was far more known to people with 35 percent even though his party's much smaller so it didn't really work out it didn't really reach out to the people and i have seen a recent poll on tiger's takeshita online where only 16 percent of the people said would be the best candidate or 2 moments was 17 percent and 66 percent to 3rd of the people sat none of them would be a good appropriate president for they you european commission in their view so this

is alarming their system has failed. well run rough 1st we'll follow it closely thank you for preview in it for us and telling us what the current systems like prescience on today thank you. us presidents old. it is trade chief to levy punitive tariffs on all remaining imports from china now that's 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 held positive talks this week aimed at 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 the both sides intend to push ahead with a negotiation to say beijing has said that the latest u.s. move will be met with counter measures china rejects america's claims it's backtracked on its earlier commitments economics professor richard wolfe suspects trumbo actually is playing politics rather than 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 for what mr trump said he wanted in the beginning were 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 jewel. here's a curious one suffering from a lack of pupils one small school in ruler france has taken

a somewhat bizarre measure to stay open tending to his verdant pastures to make up the numbers no less is the story. 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 symbolically enrolled sheep since our children are being treated like rabbits.

2 or that's it we the teachers we 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 many think. 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. coming up after months of negotiations and those much hyped summits north korea and the u.s. still seem to be on good terms despite the fact that launched yet another round of test missiles of north korea it's among our stories ahead.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shooting let it be an arms race is on spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. we have a situation that is very new and that's why. it's like a relay before the war with 2 people who were born there and there was no and go to school or do the 2 so that the boy it was through to the right of the world. to see if the as the medical and the widespread simplicity is good code of people today. in many diseases because of this we do coolly broke

up the. well again the celts international how we can go and goods not go particular well for facebook's mugs. he said he'd welcome more support from governments in policing content on the platform is coming came up for a meeting with the french president at the lazy palace 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 the meeting came just hours after the release of a report commissioned by emanuel 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 monitor the site for 6 months partly the company's vice president responded to the report by saying there are indeed grounds for future cooperation chris keates a tech entrepreneur and blog chain expert believes like a bird 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 it 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 or wide 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. well because facebook's policies have been under particular scrutiny since the christ church mosque shootings which were live streamed and then widely circulated on the platform and early this week to to add to its woes the site was accused of also generating extremist content through compiling anniversary videos. ages and groups here are some of the images all that sort of content has been red flagged by internet users obviously we can't show you very much we're not going to it's believed that facebook's algorithms automatically generated a short anniversary clip without 1st checking the content facebook itself claims though that it's taking a tough stance on extremism is working hard to remove offensive material. 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 the big 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 all 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 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's claim to an interview with politico magazine that north korea's recent missile launches don't amount to a breach of trust because there were only short range projectiles that was despite previously criticizing pyongyang for the tests and. 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. genuine peace and security of the country are guaranteed only by a strong physical force capable of defending its sovereignty so this recent test of the korean peninsula saw the launch of 2 projectiles than they were apparently as i said short range ballistic missiles they were fired from the country's northwest eventually they ended up in the sea of japan the fresh drills come just a few days after north korea took everyone by surprise last friday by launching

a similar test that launched the and broke a moratorium that had last of 500 days north korea described the exercises as regular and defensive but there's been plenty of reaction from its near neighbors japan has claimed pyongyang has violated un resolutions with its actions while china little more muted but nonetheless reiterating calls for calm on the peninsula . to move on 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 parkman wong a senior politics lecturer at britain's bath university he believes the u.s. and north korea are further away than ever from reaching a consensus. this is a new indication of a shift of the north korean government after one another half year of silence on one hand north korea we crass that you noticed to stop sending and

wares on the island you notice these continue and persist to ask north korea to totally dismantled. both sides have to take responsibility but i think now the situation has taught us one thing more crystal clear before pyongyang 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 harassment and violence the 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 taught through churches and high end hotels across

from lanka killing over 250 islamic state said they are behind the atrocity since then the code has authorities said they've 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 owned businesses muslim women have been banned from wearing face veils under an emergency law that was swiftly brought in or many households have come a target of police during their ongoing investigations into those awful terrorist bombings masood sharjah ray of the islamic human rights commission spoke to us direct and says muslims are being unfairly singled out. all of this we address the environment of hate which is created associated in these acts of horror or these acts of terror oh yeah we did mainstream was indeed demonizing the whole most of us and communities for acts of see you then we would see and more division

more it as some of your more environments of aids 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 forward they basically chain out and this is the who support there was some contingency the opened their arms to didn't mainstream was in this yet i think we need to sort of retching us and that individual acts of terror does not represent the mainstream community of muslim community or other communities and we need to isolate acts of terror not isolate this section of our society. well so unusual enough like in so far from out international here h.q. in moscow kevin i was saying goodbye you know nails here in the coming hours don't get out he don't come for all the stories as they may have been throughout the weekend from a good one. this

is a sticker for a water bottle phone in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers they're the bad ones they're the litter box they're throwing us away. industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. as soon as cool sets for something their classes chris 60. special projects funding me. on i knew that is the end of

a footy team but for now the mountains of waste only grow. in 2040 you know bloody revolution 2 to correct the demonstrations one for being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it your style or here i mean your list book video neighborly is that i do schooling you go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of $24.00 g. and. those who took part in this did over 5000000000 dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. lawmakers manufacture consenting student of public wealth. when the ruling classes

project themselves. with the financial merry go round certainly the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. good looking real news. shows seem wrong but all roles just don't call. me world but you. to shape out just to come out to it and in the game equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

what politicians do listen to them. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president it was. more something wanted us. to do i think the press was like on the phone 3 in the morning can't be good for i'm interested always in the wires in that. area i said more. there is one organized force which traditionally plenty of fluids but with all its flaws it's been in the forefront of the. efforts to improve the lives of the

general population that's organized labor it's also a barrier to corporate tyranny so it's the one barrier to this vicious cycle going on which does lead to corporate tyranny. for a. major reason for the concentrated that onerous fanatic attack on unions and organized labor is they are a democratizing force. to provide a barrier that defends their workers' rights but also popular rights generally. then or that it interferes with the pariah that is now or for those who own and manage the society. i should say that anti union. sentiment in the united states among elites is so strong that the fundamental

couper of labor rights in the basic principle in the international labor organization is the rate of free association which would mean the right to form unions u.s. has never ratified. but i think the us may be alone among major sides in that respect. it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. or that the us has a lawn very violent labor history as compared sidey. butler had been very strong about the 1920 s. . period not unlike today it was virtually crushed grabber.