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head. on a further $300000000000.00 worth of imports from china marking another escalation in the ongoing. national news center here in moscow this is our to everyone welcome to the program my name is union let's begin with breaking news we have from pakistan where local authorities say several gunmen stormed a 5 star hotel in the southern. province the building has been cordoned off by police the military let's go live now to the country and talk to international terrorism expert. gury in islamabad good to have your

company this hour what details perhaps are you able to confirm where you are about what happen today. well around 90 minutes ago according to the media reports some $3.00 to $4.00 individuals attacked the whole continental tyler private hotel attacked and they go other cities and recent reports have come and the battle just on the russian army be a has taken this is once ability just to give you a brief background according to the pakistani chinese relationship that is the chinese pakistani economic corridor or it's a $600.00 kilometer long corridor door and god there is a center point or the entry point forward so that was very obvious target of the terrorist activity that was there but according to the recent war started coming and now the police and the armed forces have cordoned off the. action a string going on but no casualties has yet been deported and it has been stated by

the local police that around 95 percent of the idea has been cleared still some hotel workers are officials who are so inside nobody really has been reported that are they as you say the separatists but a lot just on liberation army have claimed responsibility what do we know about them why would they be targeting foreigners in that region. well there has been insurgency going on in this law just in terms of its geographic n a a province of pakistan b l a n b l f l 2 of the leading insurgent organizations that have been supported by national and international organizations and they have been some claims or a some pointing fingers towards or all or maybe towards or other international agencies which are looking in baluchistan so it has been has been going on have been a relative calm or there but this has the larger picture of this state of the earlier this is the logic picture is to sabotage the overall calmness and the and the and

developed of unrest that has been going on in pakistan in tums all feel these terrorist attacks against 22 minute ago in the 2nd largest city of pakistan is sufi shrine bugs attacked by a suicide bomber not on a dozen people who were killed and even in baluchistan just last month security forces officials were attacked and it was claimed that some of the insurgents were crossing over from the iranian sorry who attack so in the overall situation it appears that the knowledge of combat has the if to come back in pakistan has been disturbed is this an area however that's particularly at risk of such attacks. yeah they have been all visiting audio there has been some some points out of that given that there are some national and international actors who may not not like the development of sea prague they may be against or there has been some some some something that said by the governor focused on that they're all might have been involved in sabotaging of it one of the indian navy officials was arrested on 2

years ago by the box an agency down there still and he is still on the other he is still under custody of the pakistani authorities and he had confessed according to the media reports that he had been involved in such an activity and collaboration with the insurgency that is going on in but just thought he was coming to inform between groups on and on the inside of look stuff so yes in this whole of backdrop this p.c. hotel was an obvious target i must ask into this as a security failure as well because in the part of the road just on and go was a there's no big building infrastructure there this is such a big hotel the only international hotel but national is an international stage and national international dignitaries come the journalists who come the there is no other obvious building and so if a doctor has been abducted that is a serious question mark about the order or security of braces ok thanks very much for giving us some background on the very latest indeed on the attack today dr

zubair a girl or a live from islamabad. moving on to our headline stories this hour 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 done we'll hail who's the arrested thursday served as a language analyst for the air force between 292-013-2011 he was also assigned to work for the national security agency and given top secret security clearance. is alleged but during the time he established communication with a reporter and leader provided him with documents stolen from and they say computers he was indicted on to the espionage act on 5 charges related to the theft retention transmission all 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 it represents a direct threat to investigative journalism with more now on the story here's kill 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 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 a story with potentially far reaching consequences not with e.u. parliament elections fast approaching debates has broken out in the union over the process but the term is who takes the top job at the blocs executive branch expanding more of our 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 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 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 the future european commission on the my leadership we'll insist the principle of sort of rule of law a solution is going to have to be i undoubtedly 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 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 a burly. geo political analyst reiner roth told us he does not believe the so-called lead candidate system has lived up to expectations. in my understanding of some kind of diet or lean lead candidate system 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. lead candidate for that you keep e.u. 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 this is alarming their system has failed. the u.s. president has ordered his trade chief to lead the punitive tar of all remaining imports from china that's on top of friday's dramatic tuck cycle around $200000000000.00 worth of goods from america's top trading partner now 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 although 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 our earlier trade commitments. the economics professor richard roth suspects donald trump is playing politics rather than actually trying to get the economy. 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 60 minutes past 6 pm and this saturday evening here and join me again in 90 seconds for more world. we have a situation that is very new and that's why. it's like i feel like before there were 2 people who were born there and there was no end to the

school board you know the 2 so the boy it was through to the right of the world. as a medic and the widespread complicity is good code of people today. in many diseases because of this would you call the. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront case inflight it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

facebook's mark zuckerberg has said he would welcome more support from governments and police and content on the platform the comment came following a meeting with the french president at the elise a polis on friday. we both believe government should take a more active role in 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. interestingly the meeting took place just hours after the lease of a report commissioned by a money when the call 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 authored by a team of french experts who monitored this site for 6 months the company's vice president responded to the report by saying that there are grants for future

cooperation chris could say a tech entrepreneur block chain expert police facebook's boss 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 markoff 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 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 facebook's policies have been under a particularly intense scrutiny since the christ church mosque shootings which were live streamed and then widely circulated on the platform and earlier this week 2 onto its woes the site was accused of also generating extremist content through compiling on their verse treated. it was on the pages of dubious groups here's some images of that sort of content that's being read flying by internet users obviously were very limited in what we can show you it's believed facebook's algorithms automatically generated a short on a clip without 1st checking the content facebook itself claims though that it's taking a tough stance that extremists are working hard to remove or fence of 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 the bet 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 is 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 that many don't want to block other things so it's really a choice that's being made by facebook. ok some pretty extraordinary images next

several lawmakers have been injured and one hospitalized after hong kong's legislative assembly descended into chaos the brawl was triggered by a meeting on plan changes to the island's extradition policy. god god god god i. proposed a new law busy was announced earlier this year by the regions pro beijing leader that was after a case involving a month from hong kong who allegedly killed his pregnant wife while on vacation in taiwan under the current policy known as one country 2 systems hong kong counts help taiwan to extradite suspects critics believe the new legislation could a road freedom and privacy but the authorities say the switch is crucial i. took it back to the streets of france there were yellow vests movements are for a 26 consecutive week of demonstrations the rallies this saturday come just 2 weeks

before as we're going through earlier the european parliament elections follow on from the weakest turnout since the beginning of the movement last week and according to the french government protests are also taking place in the city's old an old bombs on demonstrations and several. you. know 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 pastures to make up the numbers to make up your mind at this.

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. 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 ok on a busy news day this saturday to join me again in just about 30 minutes for all the latest updates but now in conversation with acclaimed thinker. it's requiem for the american dream. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to say the home field

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