the war on whistleblowers continues the u.s. charges a former intelligence analyst under the espionage act alleging he turned over classified information of washington's targeted assassination program to the media . also coming off this sort of the spirit or ropes in europe over the process that will determine who takes over as the next e.u. commission president. beijing dollars to respond to donald trump the solution to

ratchet up a further $300000000000.00 worth of imports from china marking another escalation in the ongoing trade. just gone 4 pm this sunday here in moscow may the 11th a warm welcome to the program i mean in o'neil 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 . who was arrested thursday served as a language on the list for the euro force between 292-839-2011 he was also assigned to work for the national security agency and given top. secret

security clearance it is alleged that during the time he established communication with the reporter and later provided him with documents stolen from n.s.a. computers know he was dying to go into the espionage act on 5 charges related to the theft retention transmission off plus the fight in for me and each carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison well the press freedom organization reporters without borders has sharply criticized the arrest arguing it represents a direct threat to investigative journalism with more knowledge in this 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 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. many are observing the situation saying there is a big crackdown on whistleblowers being carried out by the u.s. government 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 whatever tolerance there was for those who leaked classified information about government malfeasance seem 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

would lie sign any insider information. to some friction in the corridors of european power with e.u. parliament elections fast approaching debate has broken out in the union. over the process that determines who takes the top job at the blocs executive branch here's our europe correspondent with more 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 repair and to. in all but name. not so fast says the money will. do the things particularly that the president is not an artist

you kaleb you 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. 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 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 man fred bever 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 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. it is going to have to be ironed out to 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 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 the early. we also got the thoughts of geopolitical analysts reiner off on this he's of the view that each doesn't believe essentially

of the so-called leading candidate system can or has lived up to expectations. in my understanding of some kind of god or 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 for 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 and come to lead canada for that you keep e.u. 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. a story of some startling big numbers now the us president has ordered his trade chief to levy punitive tarps on all remaining imports from china that is on top of friday's dramatic tax hike on iran 200000000000 dollars worth of goods for america's top trading partner well the latest penalties come despite dollar trump's claims that washington and beijing get on like a house on fire holding positive talks this week a partly in that 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 kuntar of measures china's also rejected america's claims that it didn't stick to earlier trade commitments. well economics professor richard

wolfe suspects donald 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 really organizing the world economy so that the united states gets a better treatment than it did before what mr trump said he wanted in the beginning were some adjustments in the relationships between the united states and china but only 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 of the state 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 well with her own unique take

on the simmering trade the spirit between the u.s. and china we could only go to one person probably vocal. in california they have a historic trade deal between the usa and china could be in trouble but probably. don't trump threaten china have a trade tariffs i guess i don't think there's enough that is what they did they can relate to us how many of the gulf as i predicted compared to how many actually make trade well it's a lot for the stock market to kids anyway and dropped quicker than a teenage boy. the whole over the full crab. way tell you what home make just as much money when the stock market. it goes down as when it goes up it's been a slow process and every year that paula is trying to squeeze as america's dangly bit that will be tight the us is like the playground bully that his victim has gone through

a growth spurt and started lifting weights and just as an historic trade agreement between the world's biggest economies looked imminent beijing decided maybe it won't change it lol just keep it lunch money they. are the way you see the germans were doing because they broke that rule. they broke their. broke the deal. they can't 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 were the chinese one could call it the art of the do you . thinking the us economy a year before he had let it i'm trying now with its 100 year president. bush to choose public opinion look well maybe just play the long game and start the whole negotiating charade all over again with the next guy in the white house.

probably guy only one thing remains that communism and nearly liberalism worship the old. pragmatism and well known cheese cat will continue to be made in china and you will still be able to buy it in walmart or on amazon using way. suffering from a lot of pupils one of the quite unusual stories of the week next a small school in rural france has taken the somewhat bizarre measures to stay fully opening turning to its lush pastures to make up the numbers.

that it was a 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. too although it's a week that teaches regret the reduction of the number of classes since we will need to have more students in each class next year the initiative does not come from the teaches but from the parents and this action made as small a benefit. 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 there you go well coming right up in 90 seconds time facebook heads to france seeking support we've got that coming up. what. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and. want to be. the 2 going to be close it's like before 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the.

search area conway there's to tutor for the world that exist in america so if i go into a big bank the bank of america citi bank wells fargo bank and i say i want to borrow 100000 dollars and i want you to charge me is there a percent interest rate on that and then i want to posit that $100000.00 that your bank and i want you to pay me 5 percent and i want to therefore collect all that they. get a tax free ok can i do that now but it back to do that. again facebook's mark zuckerberg has said he would welcome more support from governments and policing content on the platform the comment came calling a meeting with the french president at the elisei palace on friday we both believe

government should take a more active role in important issues like balance of expression and safety private same day support to be able to see and prevents an election interference reflect on their own traditions of free speech. the meeting took place just hours after the released silver report commissioned by him money on these being strident in his criticism of the tech giant it calls on facebook to provide more information about the workings of its anti hate speech algorithm the document was authored by a team the french experts he muttered the site for 6 months the company's vice president responded to the report by saying there are indeed drawings for future cooperation chris could say a tech entrepreneur block chain expert believes facebook's bosses again in their very difficult position. is zuckerberg going to give control to the french for the people in france because as soon as he does it from a false 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 but 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 and then widely circulated on the platform earlier this week as well to add this entity to its woes the site was accused of also generating extremist

content through compiling. on the pages of dubious groups here's some images of that sort of content that's being read fly by internet users obviously were very limited in what we can show it's believed facebook's algorithms also mustn't be generated a short clip without 1st checking the content facebook itself claims however that it's taking a tough stance on extremists on 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-mails everything that's being done on the internet it's now going through these ai filters facebook has the whole thing too and so what's happening now they could block that if they wanted to but they don't they want to block certain things and they don't want to block other things so it's really a choice that's being made by facebook. all right let's turn attention to asia where several lawmakers have been injured and one hospitalized after hong kong's a legislative assembly descended into chaos the brawl triggered by a meeting on plan changes to the island's extradition policy. i was i

was i the proposed new law was a non-story or this year by the region's probe aging leader about was enough to wreck case involving him on from hong kong who allegedly killed his pregnant wife while on vacation in thailand under the current policy one country 2 systems on kong counts help taiwan to extradite suspects critics believe the new legislation could erode freedom unpretty but the authorities say the switch is. front is yellow vests that movements are buckeye for a 26th straight week of demonstrations the rallies this center very come just 2 weeks before the european parliament's elections follow on from the weakest turnout since the beginning of the movement last weekend according to the french government protests are also taking place in the cities only all this by demos in several areas. trying to set up

a special police hotline for muslims to report harassment violence the launch comes in response to a wave of reprisals against the 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 this is pushing 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 responsible 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 be being affected by threats and verbal abuse business owners are also reportedly suffering as a result of calls for a boy cos 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 raids on homes must sued giora 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 associated in these acts of horror or these acts of terror oh we did mainstream has indeed demonizing the oldest of muslim communities for acts of you then we will see and more division more it is some before we are more environment of aids i mean you see you can't what is happening in new zealand and the way that new zealand governments and politicians and the media address that is the way forward they basically change mult and this is they do support their will some can even see

the open their own to dating mainstream muslim communities yet i think we need to sort of retching us in that individual act of terror does not represent the mainstream community of the muslim community or other communities and we need to isolate acts of terror will not isolate this section of our society. ahead of next year's u.s. presidential elections going under growing gets to grips next with the democratic party nominees but whoever gets the nod can any of them stop donald trump stay with us for that. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next that bumped about different clubs on one hand it is logical to set off

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as across britain protesting drazen may and old trumps military backing of slaughter in the middle east in violation of un resolutions coming up in the show is the us 2 party system about to get caught in a gravel launch the 2020 us presidential candidates fighting to push politics left mike gravel on the importance of being loyal to ideas not policies and labour's for the shadow communities and local government minister chris williamson gives his 1st international interview since his suspension from gary coleman's ponty. chaos in a country damaged by the un from our new tradition the right honorable gentleman is question he must and will be heard the speaker has to interrupt parliament because someone got the royal title of meghan markle and prince harry wrong all the small coming up in today's going underground the 1st to a man called out this week by donald trump secretary of state like pompei o the former cia boss has been in london condemning jeremy coleman for opposing washington's plan to overthrow the government of venezuela it's disgusting to see

leaders in not only the united kingdom but in the united states as well. who continue to support the murderous dictator dictator my dear oh pump a 0 in london that condemning the odds on favorite to be the next leader of britain as well as possibly the next leader of the usa because mike revelle opposed to u.k. e.u. u.s. backed regime change in venezuela is running to be president in 2020 why did they hate us so so many places around because we kill so many people want. to you have a certain arrogance you want to you want to tell the iraqis how to run their country and we can get off a ghastly. 5 years to get off of carbon all we got to do is want to do it just play get out of their country their ads and that's probably why we insist on staying there the military industrial complex not only controls our government lock stock and barrel but the whole our whole and my gravelle joins me now via skype from

birmingham in california thanks so much chad mike for coming on the show before we even get to your campaign for 2020 what do you make of mike compare the u.s. secretary of state claiming in effect that you and jeremy corbin are disgusting for not supporting a coup in venezuela well of course what he should suggest saying that we should join in the murder that's going on in those well keep in mind with our sanctions that are going to be thousands of children they're going to be dying as a result of just coup and how could he get a straight face talk about going in and pull a new crew off another coon tree and then let me know this is against its national law this. law in the united states and it can only be perpetrated because trump who's never cystic full bump you know who is a religious nut you know he thinks that he's been ordered by god. ok well blog.