the war on whistleblowers continues the u.s. charges a former intelligence analyst under the espionage act he turned over classified information about washington's targeted assassination program to the media. pakistani officials say a security guard has been killed after gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the south in an attack targeting foreigners. and a dispute erupts in europe over the process that will determine who takes over as the next commission president.

it's 8 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international live from our studio with me welcome to the program. a former us intelligence analyst is facing up to 50 years in prison for allegedly leaking sensitive information about washington's covert drone program to the media daniel hale he was arrested on 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 it's a legend that during a time of the established communication with a reporter and late provided him with documents stolen from and i say computers hail was indicted under the espionage act and on 5 charges related to theft were 10 . and transmission of classified information each carries

a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison the press freedom organization reporters without borders has a shopping criticised day of rest all getting it represents a direct threat to investigative journalism with more now on the story he is kind of more than. 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 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 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 8 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 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 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. a military source in pakistan side as a security guard has been killed off to several gunmen stormed a 5 star hotel in the south like a building as part of a chinese funded multibillion dollar project and popular among tourists officials

say the attack because it was cornered at the top we got an update from an expert on international terrorism and islam about. the baluchistan liberation army be as a has taken this response ability distribute brief background according to the pakistani chinese relationship that is the chinese baucus tanny economic order door to the 600 kilometer long corridor and god there is the center point or the entry point of that forward so that was very obvious target of the terrorist activity that was there but according to the recent of war started coming in and now the police and the armed forces have quarter not the area and the action istream going on around 95 percent of the area has been cleared still some hotel workers are officials who are still inside well there has been an insurgency going on in this largest in terms of its geographic and in the province of pakistan and even in baluchistan just last month the security forces officials were attacked and it was

claimed that some of the insurgents were crossing over from the iranian sorry will attack so in the overall situation it appears that the knowledge of conduct has to come back and pakistan has been disturbed i must ass until this is a security failure as well because in the heart of little just on in god that there is no big building infrastructure of the this is such a big hotel the only international doubt there are national and international state and national international dignitaries come the journalists who come there there's no on that obvious building in that so if that has been attacked that is a serious question mark about the security of greatness. but the parliament elections fast approaching and debate ahead by a collapse of the price of that determines who takes the top job at the blocs executive branch is our europe correspondent peter. 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 show in all but name. not so fast says the money will. do the things we think get it out 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 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 months 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 though well he's already talking he's got the job so the future european commission on the my leadership will 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 all the entry elections to which time because it's. not just the e.u. commission job that needs to find

a success 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 rene songs take place in europe well if he can reform the way directly elected positions are filled in the e.u. institutions will thus may be more akin to a revolution peter all of the early. political analyst rayna rothfuss told us he doesn't believe the so-called lead candidate system has lived up to expectations. in my understanding of some kind of god or lead lead candidates this is a kind of democracy simulation because of the citizens cannot directly choose which candidate is the best option who represents best for people's interests so it's a party issue the parties before hand select their most appropriate what they think

is most appropriate to have it and this is quite dysfunctional because even in germany we can see that monthly the german. lead candidate for the e.p. p. 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 the system has failed. there are many things which might deter students from applying to top universities expand strong competition or a fear of failure but britain's cambridge university has uncovered another lack of decent local has. we've been doing some quite detailed research particularly with black students particularly in london looking at obstacles to applying to cambridge

and thinking about cambridge a number 3 on the list was hairdressers it's not expected but we need to look at applying to cambridge from their eyes for those students this is their concern. the internationally renowned institution has also been canvassing college students as part of efforts to encourage more applicants for more diverse backgrounds in 20172 percent of cambridge intake were of black or ethnic origin other the terrors were a fear of student debt and not fitting in although the undergraduates featured in the university promo video says they found college life a more diverse than expected i think i realized what my original perception of cambridge was but just a stereotype when i came here i found there are spaces from out what kind you're from about what very sort of coming to cambridge i've met so many different people people who look like me but people who. let's discuss this further with former senior qualities and by the for the mayor of london thanks for coming on to the

program leigh jasper leigh cambridge obviously is a very well known university one of the world's leading universities what do you make of the research that seems to think students from ethnic backgrounds prioritize cylons over studying their. well you have to wonder what context those questions were ports i'm sure for some students that was a concern but to try and. emphasize this point for a university that only in the last couple weeks as fired no nor cala famous eugenist white supremacist professor who taught you gen ics and eugenics theory at cambridge the fact that we've got 19000 professors in the united kingdom only owned in 10 of them are black. $25.00 black women and 90 black men the fact that. you know that cambridge university has just acknowledged it

benefited from slavery and then appointed an english white man to do a review about what it should do about it how they all these subjects and the failure of their curriculum to represent the reality and object objective reality of british imperial history from a critical stump point i think all these things are much more important than i had dress or if cambridge had those things i think most students would attend despite not having local hairdressers i mean they're obviously going wrong the figures are low on their name take of ethnic and black minorities. and then obviously thinking about student quality of life as well as their university life but. there are always the other problems on their. no they're substantive problems like the fact as the guardian surveys along with varsity shoulders in 2030

that cambridge was rejecting a level black students despite them having equal qualifications to their white counterparts a lot more systemic problems then catering for. head dresses in in cambridge there are real problems of some santy disproportionate discrimination in application assessment and less cambridge really takes the issue seriously then they will forever focus on headdresses and steal pan and samosa nights to cure their problem yeah i mean if you mention the in taken equal students some of color some of not. between 20122016 they didn't accept a single black student in some of the colleges why do you think that this is still an issue at such a high profile university while it may be able to solve their recruitment problem.

because there are too many white men running the show at cambridge university and they're from a particular class a particular culture the elite of british society and they maintain within them an academic culture that is profoundly classical. and whose culture in terms of the sex press values. inimical really to black students who want to critically engage with academia to study shoes or philosophy history and others you've got to are black professors you could have a curriculum that reflects a multicultural britain and moreover you've really got leadership from the very top of the university that demonstrates its commitment to race equality and i'm afraid with the sacking of no car no no a car with the appointment of a white guy to review the historical benefit to cambridge or of these involvement

in transatlantic slavery all of these are not good signs that our university is dealing with the matter in anything but a very tokenistic way leave here if you're looking what you've suggested is the problem is internal as well but we also have to look at externally about privilege education. focused focusing on exam techniques that enable those students to achieve an interview technique there's all sorts of issues and cambridge university is saying that they can improve the situation alone is it fair in that case to expect universities to redress the balance when education inequality is existing much earlier in a student's life. well that's right but there's no evidence to suggest that the quality of applications from black african asian muslim all sorts of. minority communities to cambridge is any less of a quality than anybody else what the studies show is that there is

a disproportionate pious to white children and white wealthy wealthy middle class children and that has been the case and in fact with the government putting pressure on cambridge to reduce. introduce more states pupils which is or has done slightly that there is a huge furore in the press over in the united kingdom about rich parents complaining about social engineering in cambridge so that the whole culture of cambridge is not one which is inclusive progressive accepted acceptance it's a difficult institution to navigate but i think if the university commits itself to a proper program of tackling these issues in a very much more substantive and serious way i think that they get a lot of applause and a lot more applications as a result ok we'll leave it there for missing inequalities adviser for the man of london frankly for coming on to the program to discuss thank you. on the way the

u.s. hits china with a massive increase in tariffs what does that mean when. we take a look after this break. it's a 2 tier economy there's 2 tutor for the world that exist in america so if i go into a big bank that bank of america citibank fargo bank and i say i want to borrow

100000 dollars and i want you to charge me 0 percent interest rate on that and then i want to posit that $100000.00 at 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 i do that. welcome back to the program the u.s. president has ordered his trade chief to levy punitive tariffs on all remaining imports from china on top of friday's dramatic tax hike on iran $200000000000.00 worth of goods from america's top trading partner latest penalties come despite claims that washington and beijing positive talks this week and it's 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 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 trade commitments. i can always professor richard will 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 real 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 be generally 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 sunder mental 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. several lawmakers have been injured and one hospitalized after whole calls a legislative assembly descended into chaos the brawl was triggered by a meeting on plan changes to the island's extradition policy 9. no no no the proposed new law was announced earlier this year by the region's probation leader that was after a case involving a man from hong kong who allegedly killed his pregnant wife on vacation in taiwan and the current current policy known as one country 2 systems hong kong card to

help taiwan to extradite suspects critics believe the new legislation could erode freedom and privacy so that the authorities say the switch is crucial. that clashes have broken out in the french city of leone between yellow press protesters and police in what is the 26th consecutive week of demonstrations across the country the rallies in paris this saturday have so far gone without incident but come just 2 weeks before the year. pain parliament elections and 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 city of nanda despite bans on demonstrations in several areas. suffering up from a lack of pupils a small school in rule france has taken a somewhat bizarre measure to stay fully open turning to its lush postures 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 the likely enrolled sheep since our children are being treated like rabbits. we the teachers 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 teachers but from the parents and this action made us smile and menacing. 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. and just before we go these are live pictures that you can see on your screen at the moment from the capital of albania tirana opposition party the staging an anti-government rally to protest against widespread corruption but as you can say you can see the security forces trying to control the crowds there earlier on a few minutes ago we just saw them throwing what looked like fireballs but obviously we don't have any details at the moment. is that also demonstrating

against organized crime something the government is denying. here you can see in the background right there people all throwing what looks like fire bombs. was a chaotic scene a few minutes ago but they seem to have been able to control the crowds for a few seconds but we are expecting more protests to take place you can see they're waving their flags those are all live pictures from the capsule all of albania into ronna where opposition parties a staging an anti-government rally to protest against widespread corruption. thoughts on news from now i'll be back in around 30 minutes time with more updates so do stay with us here on r.t. international.

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