coaches there too which could be a hope of coming down on a post by a. near and dear to your lonely old videos are still on the ledge here so my look to the mood should basher during the clue a trick of craft or a smirk or. thank you war on whistleblowers continues the u.s. charges a former intelligence analyst under the espionage act as he turned over classified information about washington's targeted assassination program to the media. you like as danny officials say are security guards being killed after gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the south in an attack targeting foreigners. and

25 years one ruling party but this time the african national congress in fast africa surfaces and biggest losses since the end of apartheid in the general election. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me the key aaron or 1st there is that just in a gas explosion in a building near the southern russian city of rostov has left at least one person dead and 2 others injured one of those killed is reportedly a child as a result of the explosion the roof has collapsed into flats 12 people have been evacuated rescuers are currently working at the scene emergency crews spear more victims could be hidden under the rubble we'll update you on this story if we receive more information. 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 daniel hale who was arrested on thursday served as a language analyst for the air force between 2009 and 2 of 2013 in 2011 he was also assigned to work for the national security agency and given top secret security clearance it's alleged that during this time he stop. communication with a reporter and later provided him with documents stolen from n.s.a. computers hale was indicted under the espionage act on 5 charges related to the theft or tension and transmission of classified information each of those charges carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison the press freedom as an organization reporters without borders has sharply criticized the arrest arguing if you represents a direct threat to investigative journalism with more now on the story has caleb.

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 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 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 is 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 ralphy since seems to dog there is supposed to be a law 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 in processing 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. a military source in pakistan says the security guard has been killed off to several gunmen stormed a 5 star hotel in the south the luxury building is part of a chinese funded multibillion dollar project on popular among tourists officials say the attackers were cornered near the top floor and update from an expert on international terrorism and about. the baluchistan liberation army be as a has taken this response ability distribute brief background into the pakistani

chinese relationship that is the chinese pakistani economic corridor or it's the $600.00 kilometer long corridor and governor there is the center point or the entry point of that order so that was very obvious target of the terrorist activity that was there but according to the recent of course that are coming and the police and the armed forces have quarter not the area well they have been insurgency going on in this largest in terms of its geographic 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 all the attack so an overall situation it appears that the relative calm that has appeared to come back in pakistan has been disturbed i must ask them to this is a security failure as well because in the article 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 stage 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 touted out it 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 tehran of a sense of a competition parties that are staging anti-government rallies against what they call widespread corruption. was the way. just so also demonstrating against organized crime allegations the government though denies there's a heavy security presence at the scene which is seeing sporadic fires broke out as

opposition folk figures could be heard chancing anti-government slogans from a makeshift podium in the crowd. of the many people vying to be the next u.s. president there's one which donald trump seems to be watching pretty closely former democratic vice president joe biden transported 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 got more than strategic success in common a 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 bringing drugs or rather different from his tone later on. for. firewood white on white most democrats savage lot like are over 700.

right across the border. here. very wired what is. going to. be of use to. the problems are not bound by border drug. buyers and is not the only democrats who argue for stronger border defenses while running for office that barack obama and hillary clinton looking to let you bill before us will certainly do smell good. there will authorize some badly needed funding for better fences and better security along our borders maybe they'll need a moment. they do want to alexander's in the way you know 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 journalist and author daniel as are told us that there's hypocrisy in the democratic camp when it comes to security. it's really difficult to criticize trump to call him or her strong the borers who are the same time as our recognizing that the more liberal border region that's promoted by now after. the the transport of more drugs and other assumptions is across the border so the democrats enjoy playing both sides that. 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 you're in the same time they want to point trumpet for not having where i grew up rather a humane attitude of a both major parties are. implicated in this border disaster which is reaching truly. course there's example that proceed on this issue. the african national congress has returned to power in south africa but with a reduced majority and what is its worst result since taking office 25 years ago is confound the a.n.c. took 58 percent of the vote from wednesday's general election the party has ruled in south africa since the country's 1st free election back in 1994 and a victory means president cyril ramaphosa that will have another 5 years to appease those who have accused him of failing to address the issues in

a 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 that's double what they received 5 years ago in the last election now here's a look at some of the reasons voters may have turned on the a.n.c. failing to combat high employment which currently stands at 27 percent is one issue in the spotlight also this serious concern i. theft and murder rates which are on the rise langar fall has triggered debate with white farmers holding the vast majority of private farmland we were joined by south africa based political analyst howard feldman who told us corruption is the main factor in the a.n.c. losing support the a.n.c. has been taught 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 so what we're seeing is that there has been

a movement on both sides towards the the more right of center and the more left of center being the if and the and the freedom front really for me that julius malema is not calling for white people to be killed yet do 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 some pull 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 in our players and conversations that we should have head for that reason it still exists. within the parliament elections fast approaching debate has broken out in

the union over the process that determines who takes the top job in the bloke's executive branch here's 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 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 john claude young in all but name. not so fast says money will. do the things we think really 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 mccraw throughout this week's e.u.

summit in rumania he wants to see a change to the current system which. 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 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 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 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 of entry elections in 2 weeks 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 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 you know directly elected positions of filled in the e.u. institutions. may be more akin to a revolution peter all over all to early. times most still to come including cambridge university in the u.k. so this facing some hairy issues in getting students through the door we'll tell you why after the break.

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let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time . to sit down and talk. welcome back now 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 plans changes to the island's extradition policy. was. it was a proposal or was announced earlier this year by the region's probe aging leader it comes after a case involving a man from hong kong you allegedly killed his pregnant wife while on holiday in taiwan currently hong kong can't to extradite people to jurisdictions with which it

has no agreement free speech advocates are concerned the suspects could be sent to face trial in mainland china or dorothy's however say the charge is needed to ensure justice. but there are many things which might deter students from applying to top universities the expense of strong competition or fear of failure but britain's cambridge university has uncovered another a lack of decent local have solid. we've been doing some quite detailed research particularly with black students particularly in london looking at optical to applying to cambridge and thinking about cambridge a number 3 on the list was head rested its 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 canvassed in current students as part of efforts to encourage more applicants from more diverse backgrounds in 27 c.

92 percent of cambridge is intake were black or ethnic origin other to terence moore a fear of student debts and 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 question cambridge was but there's a stereotype when i came here i found that our space is somewhat back on your phone 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 were hurt really jasper a former equalities advisor to the marrow of london who says the talk of hairdressers is just a diversion from the real issues facing the university. there are too many white men running the show at 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'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 unless cambridge really takes the issue seriously then they will forever focus on. dresses and steal pan and samosa nights to cure their problem. was their friend from a lot of people's a small school in rural france has taken us them up bizarre and i said to stay fully open tending to his past just to make other non.

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 we 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 us smile and menacing.

by september 1st we will definitely have one cause closed it will be difficult to survive this means that the rest of the classes are going to be overstretched. and clashes have broken out in several french cities between the yellow vests protesters and police in what is the twenty's think consecutive week of demonstrations across the country. oh. shut. up there no reason at all to get us all into gaza. it would. exclude

iranian power as this saturday got caught in the rain in many could be seen carrying on braless the government plays fewer than 20000 people turned out across the country which would make this weekend the weakest turnout since the beginning of the movement's protest organizers however claim ever $37000.00 took part. let's return now to that gas explosion near rostov in southern russia the number of dead has risen to 2 people while 2 others are injured 12 people have been evacuated one a victim a child died on the way to hospital the explosion caused the roof to collapse in 2 flats rescuers are currently still working at the sea emergency crews fear more victims could be hidden under the rubble with updates you on the story as and when we were see more information. well those are your world news headlines for this

hour we're back in 30 minutes with all the latest will see that. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. exists is a sticker from the water bottle phone in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad ones there the litter bugs are throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. stickle

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there is one organized force which traditionally plenty of fluids but with all its flaws it's been in the forefront of the. efforts to improve the lives of the general population that's organized labor it's also a barrier to corporate tyranny so it's the one barrier to this vicious cycle going on which does lead to corporate tyranny. of the major reason for the concentrated on us fanatic attack on unions are organized labor is they are a democratizing force. to provide a barrier that defends the workers' rights but also popular rights generally.

and it that it interferes with the parotid is an hour for those who own and manage the society. and i should say said anti union sentiment in the united states among elites is so strong that the fundamental couper of labor rights and the basic. and simple in the international labor organization is the rate of free association which would mean the right to form unions u.s. has never ratified. so i think the us may be alone among major societies in that respect. it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. herber that the us has gone very violent labor history as compared siding. with the ira had been very strong about the 1920 s. .