the war. continues the u.s. charges a former intelligence. information about. targeted assassination to the media also ahead this hour a dispute erupts in europe over the process that will determine who takes over as the next e.u. commission president. there are $300000000000.00 worth of imports from china marking another escalation

in the ongoing war. from moscow to the world this is r t international my names you know neal good to have your company our top story. 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 media well done neil hale who was arrested thursday served as the language on the list for the euro force between 292-013-2011 he was also assigned to work for the national security agency and given top secret security clearance it's alleged not during the time he established communication with

a reporter later provided him with documents stolen from and they say computers hail was indicted on to the espionage act on 5 charges related to the theft rick tension transmission of classified information each of those carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison the press freedom organization reporters without borders has sharply criticized the arrest arguing it represents a direct threat to investigative journalism but more now on what we know on the story here scale up and. 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 there was later published in his book the drone papers 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 drone strikes that the information that was published by the intercept seems to in the. kate 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 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 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 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 missile blowers being carried out by the u.s.

government whatever tolerance there was for those who leaked classified information about government malfeasance seems to be gone there is supposed to be a law not actually that prevents classification of information and the dancing a crime and so a lot of that classification over classification is actually to prevent people from learning about crimes. just 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 repressing 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 we live on any insider information. a little bit of

strife on the continent with the e.u. parliament elections fost approaching debate has broken out in the union over the process that the term is who takes the top job but the blocs executive branch with more here share europe correspondent peter all ever. 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 that 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 among. other things particularly that the president is not an artist you kaleb you 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 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 greta 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 month for e.u. commission president however it's not known exactly how cold cream is should a better option come on the table just of that though 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 today european summit which will take place in june after the parliamentary elections in 2 weeks 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 to disk 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 of filled in the e.u. institutions will vast maybe more akin to a revolution peter all of the early yet we've been getting reaction to this as well including from geopolitical analysts ryanair roughly the view that he doesn't

believe the so-called lead candidate system as peter was going through there has lived up to expectations. in my understanding of some kind of diet or lean lead candidates this 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 of the parties before hand select their most appropriate what they think is most appropriate how to get and this is quite dysfunctional because even in germany we can see that the german. lead candidate for the e.p. p. is fighting against germany interests so as to get votes from there 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 this is alarming their system has failed. i want to talk about some big big numbers now the us president has ordered his trade chief to levy punitive targets on all busy remaining imports from china that's on top of friday's dramatic tax hike on our own $200000000000.00 worth of goods from america's top trading partner well the latest penalties come the spying to donald trump's claims that washington and beijing held positive talks this week 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 though both sides intend to push ahead with the negotiations beijing has said the latest u.s. move will be met with countermeasures china's also rejected america's claims that it didn't stick to earlier trade commitments well economics professor richard wolfe suspects mr trump is playing politics rather than actually trying to give the

economy a bit. 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 trond 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 on with her own unique take on the simmering trade dispute between the u.s.

and china here's our teens polly boycott. a historic trade deal between the usa and trying to get me in trouble really. don't chumps 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 took his cue anyway and dropped quicker than a teenage boys. to his little secret they were to tell you that he'd make just as much money when the stock market goes down as when it goes up it's been a slow process but every year the cost 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 fear 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 do because they broke that rule. they broke the. broke to. thank you do that so they'll be paying we don't make the deal nothing wrong with take it in over $100000000000.00 a year. just trying to get a better agreement and so are the chinese one could call it the all out of the do you going to risk sinking the us economy a year before we lose the next letter and i'm trying now with its 100 year president. bush to choose public opinion who 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 at the altar. and the launch pad will continue to be made in china. will soon be able to buy. or on amazon using out. all right one of the more on usual stories of the week now is suffering from a lot of pupils a small school in rural france is taking a somewhat bizarre measure to stay open turning to its burdens. to make up the numbers.

it was a symbolic symbolic protests organized by the parents of the students with a certain amount of humor the action showed that since the school district is only interested in numbers we symbolically enrolled sheep since our children are being treated like 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 so that the initiative does not come from the teaches but from the parents and this action made us smile if anything.

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. not dressed there's nothing there coming up after months of negotiations on those much hyped summits are north korea and washington still on good terms despite pyongyang's launch of yet another round of testing missiles we examine for this. we have a situation that is very new and that's why. it's like i feel like before the war were to when people were dying but no more in there and there was no and go to school or do you know the 2 so that the boy it was through to the right of the world and. the as

a medical man the widespread simplicity is good code of people today. in many diseases because it is what you call the. shots seemed wrong but i. just don't. let me. get to shape out just become educated and engage with. the trail. went something find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. welcome back to our international facebook's mark zuckerberg has said he would welcome more support from governments in policing content on the platform the

comment came following a meeting with the french president out the elisei palace on friday we both believe government should take a more active role around important issues like balance and expression and safety privacy and a support to be able to see and prevents an election interference reflect on their own traditions of free speech. in the meeting itself between the pair came just hours after the release of a report commissioned by emanuel mccrone who's being a strident really in this criticism of the tech giant it calls on facebook to provide more information about the workings of its own to hate speech algorithms the document was or 3rd by a team of french experts who monitored the site for 6 months the company's vice president responded to the report by saying there are indeed drawings for future cooperation this could say a tech entrepreneur on the block chain expert believes mr zuckerberg 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 my call 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 worldwide and it's going to be legal in wherever we operate or we're going to. just knuckle under and you know and let 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 or facebook's policies have been under particularly intense scrutiny since the christ church mosque shootings which

were live streamed and then widely circulated on the platform and earlier this week to iran to its will is this site was accused of also generating extremist content through compiling on their videos on the pages of dubious groups you're a some images of the sort of content that's being read flying by internet users all . we're very limited in what we can show you it's believed that facebook's algorithms also must actually generated a shorts on their 1st 3 clip without 1st checking the content facebook itself claims however they have to it's taking a tough stance on extremists and 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 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 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-mails 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 and they don't want to block other things 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 do not amount to a breach of trust they were only short range projectiles now that was despite previously criticized in pyongyang for the tests and casting doubt on the hermit kingdom as 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 let's just go through the timeline here are they recent tests on the korean peninsula saw the launch of 2 projectiles they were partly as we were hearing apart the short range ballistic missiles they were fired from the country's northwest and landed here in the sea off japan where the 1st drills come just a few days after north korea took everyone by surprise with a similar test last week the 2 launch broke a moratorium on tests which had lasted more than $500.00 days north korea described

the exercise as regular on the fence of but there's been plenty of reaction from its neighbors japan's claim pyongyang has violated u.n. resolutions with its actions while china has reiterated calls for calm on the peninsula. we don't want you to. continue working towards the resolution of the issue through dialogue and making positive efforts to achieve the denuclearization of the peninsula or we heard from dr park a senior politics lecturer at britain's both university he believes the u.s. to 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 and a half year of silence on one hand north korea we cry as the united states to stop send your name and where on the other hand 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 that now the situation has changed. ok or bring another story to your attention i sure like to 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 this year a string of suicide bombings tore through churches and high end hotels or cross sri

lanka killing over 250 people islamic state claimed responsibility for the atrocity since then the country's authorities say they have received hundreds of calls reporting abuse against muslims in addition to physical violence many say they've been affected by threats and verbal abuse business owners are also reportedly suffering as a result of calls for a boycott of muslim owned firms there's also been a night cry over the treatment of the community by the authorities themselves following the bombing of face coverings on and raids on the homes must suit should jury of the islamic human rights commission says muslims are being unfairly singled out. all of this we address the environment of hate which is created associate in these acts of horror or these acts of terror oh yeah we did mainstream was indeed demonizing the whole us to muslim communities for acts of see

you then we would see and more division more it is somewhat 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 who support that will some can even see the open their own to didn't mainstream muslim communities 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 communities and we need to isolate acts of terror not isolate this section of our society we will be back with more of the news making headlines this summer in iran and 30 minutes but stay close to her for more great programs beginning in moments

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of 2014. those who took. it invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. to do nothing this is the economy fewer americans in america covering america new is called foreign agents. after joe biden announced he was running for president last week c.n.n. came out with. bombshell report saying a new c.n.n. poll showed biden in a commanding lead among democrats in fact his announcement gave him an 11 point bounce leaving him head and shoulders above the rest of the candidates incredible

unbelievable watch out pokes this time around joe biden is bigger better bolder and ready to run your show. yes yes. there's only one it seems. alone if you actually look at the c.n.n. poll that c.n.n. is quoting they didn't talk to almost anyone for tween 18 to 49. that's like half of the america. you have biden is really killin it as long as you don't speak to anyone who can still do lunges. by that metric congressman sestak multan is winning the race for the presidency if you only poll massachusetts white people between the ages of 30 and 48 who are seth moulton wife. and then c.n.n. runs with as i said mold winning even though the corporate media is celebrating joe by.