the war on whistle blowers continues the u.s. charges a former intelligence analyst under the espionage lynching he turned over classified information about washington's targeted assassination program to the media.

also coming up in the program a dispute erupts in europe over the process that will determine who takes over as the negs the commission president. beijing to respond to donald trump's the solution to ratchet up tarps on a further $300000000000.00 worth of imports from china marking another escalation in the own going trade. 90 m. in mexico city 10 pm in singapore and 5 in the evening right here in moscow this sunday welcome to our to international i mean you know neal we will get to our headline stories in just a moment but some news coming in from pakistan where local authorities say several gunmen stormed a 5 star hotel in that ball that. now the building has been cordoned off by police

and the military we believe conflicting reports i'm seeing about the number of people inside the hotel some suggest dozens are trapped there it is thought a shootout is taking place currently but there is no information regarding casualties out at this stage we do know it's a troubled region and we'll be staying right across this story for you as and when more details emerge but moving on now. a former u.s. intelligence analyst is facing up to 50 years in prison for allegedly leaking sensitive information about washington's covert drone war for a program to the media a done deal hale was arrested on thursday he served as a language unlist for they are a force between 292013 in 2011 he was also assigned to work for the national security agency and given top secret security clearance it's

alleged that a jury the time he established communication with a reporter and later provided him with documents stolen from n.s.a. computers hill was indicted the espionage act on 5 charges related to theft retention and transmission of classified information each carries 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 journalism with more known what we know your skill of market. many observers are noting that the information provided in the indictment seems to indicate that it's possible he could be the person that leaked information to the intercept and reporter jeremy scahill that was later published in his book the drone paper's however the intercept has refused to confirm or deny that this was indeed their source this is what was said by the intercept the intercept does not comment on matters relating to the identity of anonymous sources

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

of doing business that it seems like it's going to become harder and harder to prove them away from it the longer they're allowed to continue operating in this way now there has been quite an ugly history of the u.s. drone strike program many civilians have been killed let's review some of what has gone on as the u.s. carries out targeted assassination with drone. many are observing the situation saying there is a big crackdown on whistleblowers being carried out by the us 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 seems to dog there is supposed to be a lot actually that prevents classification of information evidencing a crime and so a lot of the classification over classification is actually to prevent people from learning about crime which is completely illegal it's very difficult to explain to people because they don't understand that you're not supposed to be able to commit a crime and then be able to cover it up and we've gone so far and pressing freedom of speech and freedom of the press that people really are pretty ignorant about all of the stuff going on except for the so cation oh you know documentary or book written or newspaper article with the help of whistleblowers and the government is definitely trying to stop all whistle blowing in all investigative journalism that

would lie sign any insider information. or a moving all know with e.u. parliament elections foster approaching debates has broken out in the union over the process that the term is who takes the top job at the blocs executive branch you're sure europe correspondent bringing us more peter all over the. reform versus the status quo when it comes to who will be taking the european commission's top job next under the current system called spits in candidate or leave candidates that job goes to the preferred choice of the parliamentary group the takes the most seats in the upcoming european parliamentary elections if we have a look at the most recent polling what this means is this well the a p p's munford verba is the heir repair and to. an all but name. not so fast says money will. do the things we think only down the president is not an artist you kill if you did no i have been clear from the beginning on this subject i don't

think this is the right approach in fact this was something of a theme for mr throughout this week's e.u. summit in rumania he wants to see a change to the current system. if we should in any case avoid agreeing on the least good candidate which can happen in certain situations we must opt for the best possible candidate in order to ensure a strong european project it will be the problem is while the french president has the backing of dutch prime minister mark rita and others there are those leaders in the e.u. that think the current system works just fine thank you very much because i believe the process of electing lead candidates should be accepted by the people that is german chancellor angela merkel is also giving her blessing to manfred for the e.u. commission president however it's not known exactly how cold cream that is should a better option come on the table list of better though well he's already talking

he's got the job so the future european commission on the my leadership we'll insist the principle of. a solution is going to have to be ironed out to a european summit which will take place in june after all the entry elections we have to do with this 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 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 well the us may be more akin to a revolution peter all of the early well geo political analysts reiner rothfuss told us he doesn't believe the so-called lead candidates system has lived up to

expectations. in my understanding it's some kind of dart or lead lead candidates this is the 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 and how to get and this is quite dysfunctional because even in germany we can see that money is the german. lead candidate for that you keep e.u. is fighting against germany 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 this is alarming their system has failed. boggling numbers to

get our head on the us president has ordered his trade chief to levy punitive tar us on all remaining imports from china that's on top of friday's dramatic tax hike on iran 200000000000 dollars worth of goods from america's top trading partner now these 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. 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 it didn't stick to earlier trade commitments. economics professor richard wolffe 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 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 and if i could choose anybody to give her own unique take on the simmering trade dispute between the u.s. and china it's going to have to be probably bucko. in case you missed it i'm

a historic 7 trade deal between the usa and china could be in trouble really really . don't trump threaten china with trade tariffs again and i just predict disaster because that's what i'm paid to do every 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 tell you they make just as much money when the don't market goes down as when it goes up it's been a slow process but every year that paula is trying to squeeze as america's dangly bit that little bit tight the us is like the playground bully that notice his victim has gone through a growth spurt and started lifting weights just as an historic trade agreement between the worlds biggest fear economies looked imminent beijing decided maybe it

won't change its rules just to keep his lunch money they. are the way you see the germans were do because they're broke that. they broke the. broke. they can't do that so they'll be paying we don't make the deal not the room would take it in over $100000000000.00 a year. just trying to get a better agreement and so were the chinese one could call it the art of the day you going to risk sinking the us economy a year before we lose the next day let it i'm trying now with its 100 year president. bush to choose public opinion will probably just play the long game and start the whole negotiating charade all over again with the next guy in the white house or gal probably guy only one thing remains that communism and liberalism both worship. alltel. and

a lot of cheek cats will continue to be made in china and you will still be able to buy it in wal-mart or on amazon using. all right here we go. the story of the week suffering from a lack of pupils a small school in rural france has taken a somewhat bizarre measure to stay fully open turning to its lush postures to make up the numbers take a look at this. that 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 since our children are being treated like rabbits. too although that's it we teach is we regret the reduction of the number of classes walk and 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 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. they acquire the idea was that coming up after the break facebook c.e.o. meets up with the french president in an attempt to garner support for policing the social media platform we briefed on the story. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be close this is like the for 3 of the more people. interested in the why. this should. come. back with our to international facebook's mark zuckerberg has said he would welcome more support from governments and policing content on the platform the comment came following 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 release silvery reports commission bali among the old mccrum who's been strident in his criticism of the tech giant it calls on facebook to provide more information about the workings of its on to hate speech algorithms the document was authored by a team of french experts who monitored the site for 6 months the company's vice president responded to the report by saying there are indeed drawings for future cooperation on chris keates say a tech entrepreneur on the block chain expert believes facebook's boss is given 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 he probably be doing that and maybe president putin too so what's going to happen is he's 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 why 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 while facebook's policies have been under particularly intense scrutiny since the christ church mosque shootings which were lie streamed and then widely circulated on the platform earlier this week to go on to its will as the site was accused of generating extremist content through compiling anniversary videos on the pages of g.b.'s groups here some images of the

sorts of content that's being read fly by internet users obviously we're very limited in what we can show you it's believed. facebook's algorithms automatically generated a short on of our street clip without 1st checking the content facebook itself claims however that it's taking a tough stance on extremists 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. some pretty extraordinary pictures there from hong kong where several lawmakers have been injured and one hospitalized after the area's at legislative assembly descended into chaos the brawl was triggered by a meeting on planned changes to the island's extradition alessi i

propose new law was a non-sterile year this year by the region's probe asia leader it was after a case involving a month the hong kong who allegedly killed his pregnant wife while on vacation in taiwan under the current policy known as one country 2 systems on conan cantelupe taiwan to extradite suspects critics believe the new legislation could a rude freedom and privacy if the authorities say the switch is crucial. front sees yellow vests movement our backyard for a 26 consecutive week of demonstrations the rallies this come just 2 weeks before the european parliament elections and follow on from the weakest turned night since the beginning of the movement last week and according to the french government protests are also taking place in the city of leone annoyance despite bounds and demonstrations in several areas. to sri lanka which 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 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 right 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 being affected by threats and verbal beast business owners are also reportedly suffering as a result of calls for

a boycott of muslim owned firms there's also been i cry over the treatment of the community by the authorities themselves following the bombing of face coverings and raids on homes masood. of the islamic human rights commission says muslims are being unfairly singled out. on this drill it's the environment of hate which is created associate dean 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 more you garnet of hate 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 change miles and this is the

eagles or there was some community he opened their arms to didn't mean his genius and june this year i think we need to sort of retching us that individual activists does not represent the mainstream. of muslim community or other communities and we need to isolate acts of terror not isolate a deception of our society. our fellow would break shortly. but a reminder of our breaking news 1st from pakistan where local authorities say several gunmen have stormed a 5 star hotel in the southern alot just province the building has been cordoned off by police military there are conflicting reports about the number of people inside the hotel it suggests that dozens are trapped there while confirm sources say many guests have been evacuated to safety is thought to shoot is currently taking place currently no information the regarding casualties it is

a story we will of course be keeping right across here in our national bring the details to you. but next on the program the big call in versus gold debate gets an update on the cause report since they say get to grips with your concerns with viewer questions answered stay with r.t. for the. seriously folks go through a period of sort of total was supposed to just push bloody. good you might begin to the minute you did it was no i go to the. loser because it's a feeling. all of the good of you know that all you want so is that they're going to bring in the national trust it's a little bit silly was bad. enough while it was pretty but growing list.

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