the war on whistleblowers continues the u.s. charges a former intelligence analysts the espionage act alleging he turned over classified information about washington's targeted assassination program to the media also ahead of the program because it's a rub saying europe over the process is which will determine who takes over as the next the commission president. to respond to this issue and to ratchet up a further $300000000000.00 worth of imports from china marking another escalation in the ongoing war.

coming from russia's capital city every hour of the day this is our international warm welcome to the program i mean and i mean our top story a former u.s. intelligence analyst is facing up to half a century in prison for allegedly leaking sensitive information about washington's covert drone warfare program to the media doesn't know hale who was arrested on thursday served as a language for the or force between 292-013-2011 he was also assigned to work for the national security agency and given top secret security clearance well. during the time he established communication with.

reporter and later provided him with documents stolen from and they say computers no hayle was indicted on the espionage act on 5 charges related to the theft retention transmission of classified information each of those carries up to a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison the press freedom organization reporters without borders has sharply criticized the arrest arguing that it represents a direct threat to investigative journalist killer has been delving a little deeper here's his story. many observers are noting that the information provided in the indictment seems to indicate that it's possible he could be the person that leaked information to the intercept and reporter jeremy scahill that was later published in his book the drone paper's however the intercept has refused to confirm or deny that this was indeed their source this is what was said by the intercept the intercept does not comment on matters relating to the identity of anonymous sources these documents detail the secrets on the council process for

targeting and killing people around the world including u.s. citizens through drone strikes they all revised to limp or since the alleged whistleblower faces up to 50 years in prison no one has ever been held accountable for killing civilians in drawing strikes now the information that was published by the intercept seems to indicate that there is a high civilian death toll in the u.s. drone warfare operations that have been waged for the past 14 years in afghanistan somalia and yemen they say the high death toll is due to the fact that there is a preference for killing targets rather than capturing them furthermore it is difficult for u.s. intelligence agencies to extract the information they need from terror suspects and those that they have in custody the military is easily capable of adoption to change but they don't like to stop anything they feel is making their lives easier or is to their benefit but they have become so addicted to this machine to this way

of doing business that it seems like it's going to become harder and harder to pull them away from it the longer they're allowed to continue operating in this way. now there has been quite an ugly history of the u.s. drone strike program many civilians have been killed let's review some of what has gone on as the u.s. carries out targeted assassination with drones. recently chelsea manning was released from federal custody but it's expected that she could return if she does not testify against wiki leaks furthermore wiki leaks founder julian assange just now facing the possibility of being extradited to the united states to face charges of computer intrusion so many are observing the situation saying there is a big crackdown on her so blower is being carried out by the u.s.

government whatever tolerance there was for those who leaked classified information about government malfeasance seems to be gone there is supposed to be a 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 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 we lie sign any insider information. ok it's getting

a little bit feisty in the corridors of power in europe with e.u. parliament elections fast approaching debates broken out in the union over the process that the term is who takes the top job but the blocs executive branch you're sure europe correspondent peter all over. 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 heir apparent to john claude young in all but name. not so fast says among. other things we think any doubt that has been going on artistically pretty good 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 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. but 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 munford for e.u. commission president however it's not known exactly how cold cream that is should a better option come on the table mr verver though well he's already talking like

he's got the job so i've got the future european commission on the my leadership insist the principle of sort of rule of law a solution is going to have to be i in doubt it a 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 at 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 well the us may be more akin to a revolution peter all of our r.t. early you know it's all heating up a little isn't it well geo political analysts run a rough 1st told us he doesn't believe the so-called lead candidate system 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 of the citizens cannot directly choose which candidate is the best option and 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 spits in kind of the lead candidate for the e.p. pete is fighting against germany interests so as to get votes from that 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. him moving

on to another big story of the week the us president has ordered his trade chief to levy punitive tar of so on all remaining imports from china and that is on top of friday's dramatic tax hike of a run $200000000000.00 worth of goods from america's top trading partner the latest penalties come despite all of trump's claims that washington and beijing help 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. though both sides intent to head with the negotiations beijing has said the latest u.s. move will be met with kuntar measures china has also rejected america's claims it didn't stick to earlier tree commitments. while economics professor richard wolfe suspects donald trump is playing politics rather than actually crying 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 on with her own unique take on the simmering trade dispute between the u.s.

and china there's probably boyko. in case you missed it i'm a historic trade deal between the usa i'm trying to get me in trouble really. don't cha 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 for the stock market to kids queue anyway and drop quicker than a teenage boys. to his little secret they were to 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 but every year the cost is trying to squeeze as americans downgrade it that little bit tight the us is like the playground bully that notice 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's 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 the. 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 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. and launch pad will continue to be made in china and will still be able to buy. or on amazon using. pragmatic policy they're both suffering from a lack of pupils this is a story i want to bring you next a small school in roof has taken a somewhat bizarre measure to stay open turning to its lush years to make up the numbers.

it was a 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 and since our children are being treated like rabbits. to all goods that we teach is 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 yeah i think that is what they call thinking side their box to join me get in 90 seconds for more world news this hour. it's a 2 chair con me there's 2 tutor for world. exist in america so if i go into

a big bank bank of america citi bank wells fargo bank and i say i want to borrow $100000.00 and i want you to charge me is there a percentage restraint on that and then i want the cause of that $100000.00 that your bank and i want you to pay me 5 percent and i want to therefore. get a tax free ok can i do that now but it back to do that. ok let's start with a story generating a lot of common tree the last few weeks 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 at the polish on friday. we both believe

government should take a more active role in important issues like balance of expression and safety privacy and day support to be able to see and prevent an election interference reflect on their own traditions of free speech the meeting between the perak came just hours after the release of a report commissioned by a money will mark ron who has been strident in his criticism of the tech giant it calls on facebook to provide more information about the workings of its anti 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 groening's for a future cooperation chris kitson a tech entrepreneur block chain expert believes mark 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 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 facebook's policies have been under particularly intense scrutiny since the christ church mosque shootings which were live streamed then widely circulated on the platform and earlier this week so odd to its woes this side was accused of generating extremist content through compiling

on their verse 3 videos on the pages of g.b.'s groups here are some of the images of the sort of content that's being read fly by internet users obviously we're very limited in what we can show you it's believed face spooks algorithms automatically generated a shorts on the clip with 1st checking the content facebook itself claims though that 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 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 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 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 don't amount to a breach of trust as they were only short range projectiles now that was the spy previously criticizing for the tests and casting doubt on the hermit kingdom is 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. that's just some background to what we're speaking about the recent test on the korean peninsula saw the launch of 2 projectiles they were apparently short range ballistic missiles they were fired from the country's northwest and landed in the sea of japan the fresh drills come just a few days after north korea took everyone essentially by surprise with a similar test last week the launch broke a moratorium on tests which had lasted more than $500.00 days north korea described the exercises as regular defensive but there's been plenty of reaction from its neighbors japan has claimed pyongyang has violated un resolutions with its actions

while china has reiterated calls for calm on the potential. to move on 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 senior politics lecturer dr park long believes the u.s. and north korea are never 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 criers 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 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 pyongyang is sending

a clear message to the world that now the situation has changed. has set up a special police hotline for muslims to report harassment and violence it's in response to a wave of reprisals against their minority populace 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 catholic churches and high end hotels across 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 have been affected by threats 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 cry of the treatment of the community by the authorities themselves following the bombing of face coverings and raids on homes masood schudrich of the islamic human rights commission says muslims are being unfairly singled out. on the lists we address this the environment of hate which is created associate these acts of horror or these acts of terror oh we did mainstream. indeed demonizing the whole of the muslim community for acts of you then we will see more division more it is some before your more you violence of hate i mean if you look at what happened in new zealand and the way that new zealand governments and politicians and the media as wrists that is the way forward they basically

change miles and this is the little support there was some community he opened their arms to didn't mean stream was in this yeah i think we need to sort of retching us. individual acts of terror does not represent the mainstream community of muslim community or other communities and we need to isolate acts of terror or not isolate deception of our society. ok up to the minute developments. always on our twitter page to keep in the loop there this saturday this is r t international would love it if you can join me again right here for more than 30 minutes time.

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the impact upon a time. and i'm going to breed on washington we're glad you're on board here is what's moving in boston today. terrorists are booming following implementation today and markets are busting correspondent alex middle of it she joins us today to guide us through the grim performance and what it means for the future of us trying to trade talks and later as i.p.l. listing gets the green light and its debut full well it soon be slamming on the brakes. trading gets behind the wheel and gives us a swing around the street following the listing. a cliffhanger ending for the u.s. trade talks with china leads our global report today as negotiators from both sides sit just 2 hours of talks before passing a decision on next steps to the presidential level after exiting that relatively brief round of talks earlier today u.s. treasury secretary said simply we are done adding that he and his chinese counterparts had constructed.