well you know what. the war on whistleblowers continues the u.s. charges a former intelligence analyst under the espionage act alleging he turned over classified information about washington's targeted assassination program to the media. say security guards been killed after gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the south in an attack targeting foreigners. and 25 years and one ruling party but this time the african national congress in south

africa suffers its biggest losses since the end of apartheid in the general election. you're watching r.t. international live from our studio with me in india today 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 warfare program to the media daniel hale who was arrested on thursday served as a language analyst for the air 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 to during that time he established communication with a reporter and provided him with documents stolen from n.s.a. . computers tale was indicted under 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 it represents a direct threat to investigative journalism with more now on the story has kept it moving. 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 we live on any insider information. a military solution pakistan says a security guard has been killed after several gunmen stormed a 5 star hotel in the south the luxury building is part of

a chinese funded multibillion dollar project and popular among tourists officials say the attackers were cornett near the top floor earlier we got an update from an expert on international terrorism and islam a bot. 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 pakistani economic corridor or it's the $600.00 kilometer long corridor and god there is the center point or the anti 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 cordoned of 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 in

a province of pakistan 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 all the attack so in the overall situation it appears that the relative calm that has appeared to come back in pakistan has been disturbed i must have some to our guard 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 or international state and national international dignitaries come there journalists can come there there's no on that obvious building in that area so if that has been a doubt that is a serious question mark about the overall security of greatness. the balkan nation of albania has been rocked by mass protests in the capital to run until saturday opposition parties that are staging and anti-government what they call widespread

corruption. was to the to the was the to. activists are also demonstrating against organized crime allegations the government though denies as a heavy security presence at the scene which has seen sporadic fires break out as opposition figures could be heard chanting anti-government slogans from a makeshift podium in the crowd. the african national congress has returned to power in south africa but with a reduced majority in what is the worst result since taking office 25 years ago it's confirmed the a.n.c. took 58 percent of the vote from wednesday's

a general election the party has ruled in south africa since the country's 1st free election back in 1904 and victory means president several am opposed so will have another 5 years to appease those who've accused him of failing to address issues in the country like corruption the main opposition party the democratic alliance picked up 21 percent of the vote while the leftist economic freedom fighters took 11 percent double what they received 5 years ago in the last election here's a look at some of the reasons voters may have turned on the a n c failing to combat high unemployment which currently stands at 27 percent is one issue in the spotlight also a serious concern over theft and murder rays which are on the rise land reform has triggered debate with white farmers holding the vast majority of private farmland we're joined by south africa based political analyst howard feldman who told us corruption is the main factor in the n.c. losing support. the a.n.c.

has been talked a little bit of a listen the last round about 19 seats which obviously will impact on them. and one of the main reasons one of the main reasons for that is the the level of corruption that so what we're seeing is that there has been a movement on both sides towards the. right of center and the more left of center being the if and the and the freedom front a relief for me that julius malema is not calling for white people to be killed yet do you see racial tension existing you do see i work a lot in corporates you use it most companies are trying to move away from any racially based issues there's nothing obviously official but but there is a subtle form of racism that does exist in the environment and we have to work very very hard south africans have to work very very hard to get beyond we it hasn't been that simple and one of the theories i have is that we were so quick south

africans really wanted to move forward on a non racial basis but sometimes we don't have those difficult and comfortable and pleasant conversations that we should have had for that reason it still exists. on the many people vying to be the next u.s. president there's one wished on which i'm seems to be watching pretty closely former democratic vice president joe biden tram spotted a few similarities between early successes in his 2016 campaign and that of his rival today and that's not all the 2 may be opposites on the political spectrum but it seems they've also got more than strategic success in common and video from 2006 has resurfaced showing then vice president biden saying he voted for a strong border fence partly due to migrants from latin america drugs or rather different from his town later on. for. i will rely on like most democrats sorry all i have i have

a. 700. polluters are. driving across the border. very very wired products red. herring there's a lot of loose connections that we keep wall ourselves lost in the problems that are not bound by borders drugs natural climate you know can't be done. and in is not the any democrat to argue for a stronger border defenses while running for office barack obama and hillary clinton mccain on what. the bill before us will certainly do some good. they will authorize some badly needed funding for better fences and better security along our borders maybe they'll need a moat. they do want to alligators in the most secure our borders with technology

personnel physical barriers if necessary and some places we will not build a wall instead we will build an economy where everyone who wants a good job can get one with no thought daniel is saw and it told me that there's hypocrisy in the democrat camp when it comes to border security. it's really difficult to criticize trying to call him or her strong the border is the same time as our recognizing that the more liberal border arrangements promoted by now after . the transport of drugs and other substances is across the border so democrats enjoy playing both sides of the they they have tried their best to keep immigrants out they have contributed to. this more

conditions and central america which are generating waves and waves of refugees. to the same time they want to blame trump for not having the. robbery humane added but both major parties are. implicated in this border disaster which is reaching truly. there's an example hypocrisy on this issue. with the parliament elections fast approaching and debate has broken out in the union and the process that to put hammond's who takes the top job at the blocs executive branch has out europe correspondent peter all of 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 and convert it or leave candidates goes to the preferred choice of the parliamentary group that takes the most seats in the

upcoming a 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. in all but name. not so fast says the money will not cross to the things we think get it out that has remained on notice to kill if you did no i have been clear from the beginning on this subject so i don't think this is the right approach in fun. 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. the problem is while the french president has the backing of dutch prime minister mark greta 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 german chancellor angela merkel has also given her blessing to month 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 2 well he's already talking like 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 ironed out today 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 successor 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 our r.t. early coming out nice came here diversity in the u.k. says it's facing some hairy issues in getting students through the door we'll tell you why amongst our other stories after this break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development that only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. we have a situation that is very new and that's why. it's like i feel

like before the war were 2 people were mourning and there was no end of the school board in order to so that the boy it was treated right after the world. as a medic and that widespread simplicity is good code of people today. in many diseases because you just would you coolly broke up the. welcome back to the program there are many things which mine deters students from applying to top universities the expense strong competition or

a fear of failure but britain's cambridge university has uncovered another lack of decent local hassle and we've been doing some quite detailed research particularly with black students particularly in london looking at all stickles to applying to cambridge and thinking about cambridge a number 3 on the list was headdress is it's unexpected 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 current students as part of efforts to encourage more up with pins for more diverse backgrounds in 2017 only 2 percent of cambridge is take work of black or ethnic a region that determines where a fear of student debt are not fitting in although the undergraduates featured in the university's promo video say they found college life more diverse than they expected. i think i realized what my original perception of cambridge was but the stereotype when i came here i followed there are spaces from what dot com you're

from about what a very small talk's coming to cambridge i've met so many different people people who look like me but people who. we heard from. equalities advisor to the mayor of london who says the talk of head dresses is just a diversion from the real issues facing the university. there are too many white men running the show cambridge university and they are 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 issues of philosophy history and others you got to a black professor as you go to our 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 unless cambridge really takes the issue seriously then they will forever focus on. dresses and steel plants or most nights to cure their problem. several lawmakers have been injured and one hospitalized after hong kong that legislative assembly descended into chaos the brawl was triggered by a meeting on the planned changes to the island's extradition policy. i was i. only had. the proposed new law was announced early this year by the region's pro beijing leader that was our case involving a man 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 card how taiwan to extradite suspects critics believe the new legislation could erode

freedom and privacy for the authorities say the switch is. clashes have broken out in the french city of leone between yellow fast protesters and police in what is the 26 can say. week of demonstrations across the country. chaos also broke out in the city of nanda despite violence sometimes rationed in several areas the rallies in paris are say so on without incident but come just 2 weeks before the european parliament elections fewer than 20000 people have turned out across the country which makes this we can believe we can turn out since the beginning of the movement according to the french government. now 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.

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 go 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. on news now i'll be back around 30 minutes time with war update so do stay with us here on r.t. international. as

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have to go right to be crushed which is what the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. this should all. right our family at mit and i are getting more headlines now you. right it is for the last few years. noam chomsky has made 2 international reputation why does does is one of the national leaders of american resistance to the vietnam war the deepest is a professor of linguistics who before he was 40 is a transformed the nature of his so. you are identified with

a new level whatever that is you certainly have been an activist as well as a writer. as a timescale and is wasted in anybody's catalogue monkey doesn't hop uro's of the new law. is standing a achieved by adopting over the past 2 or 3 years a series of adamant. rejecting at least american foreign policy at most america itself. budget this notion that he american is quite an interesting one sashes to tell tarion notion it is used in free societies so if someone and say italy is criticizing barrels going me for the corruption of the italian state and soon then a cold he. thinks they were cold indeed then people would collapse and laughter in

the streets of rome or milan. in totalitarian states the notions used so in the old soviet union dissidents were cold. that was the worst condemnation. of the brazilian military dictatorship they were gold in any brazilian. it's true that in just about every society the critics are malign are mistreated different ways depending on the nature of the society. like him so it unions they will be in prison. in the us dependency like el salvador at same time discount or force it either brains blown out by a us run state terrorist worse. than others is it just condemned their villa for the so on in the united states or one of the terms of abuse is anti american and there's a couple of others like you no more.