was exposed. to mailer that suit. there's less secrecy taken away and only stay on your own social glue. on line you guessed it is year and vote for the t. but for now the mountains of money only grow where. it. was and. the war on whistleblowers continues the u.s. charges a former intelligence fellow analyst under the espionage act alleging he turned over classified information about washington's targeted assassination program to the media. danny officials there are security guards being killed after gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the south and an attack targeting foreigners. and

25 years one ruling party but this time the african national congress in fall for customers is the biggest losses since the end of apartheid in the general election . a warm welcome to you you're watching r c international with me niki erin and we start this hour with news of a gas explosion in a block of flats in russia the blast happened near rostov in the south of the country so people have been killed while one is in a critical condition one victim a child died on the way to hospital the explosion caused part of the roof of the building to collapse almost 90 rescuers are working at the site emergency crews have a vacuum gauge at the building but fear of at least one more person could be hidden under the rubble will update you as more facts become known. well

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 to 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 now it's alleged the jury in that time has stopped his communication with a reporter and later provided him with documents stolen from n.s.a. computers well here was indicted under the espionage act on 5 charges related to the theft retention and transmission of classified information each carries a maximum pelosi 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 on the story his case of more pain. 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 referring to limp or since the alleged whistleblower faces up to 50 years in prison no one has ever been held accountable for killing civilians in jordan strikes that 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 ralphy since seems to be 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 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 we live on any insider information. a military source in pakistan say is a security guard is being killed off to several gunmen stormed a 5 star hotel in the south the luxury building is possibly chinese funded multibillion dollar projects on popular among tourists officials say the attackers who according to the top floor able course not date from an expert on international relate terrorism from islam about. the baluchistan the russian 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 cordoned of 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 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 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 a doubt that is a serious question mark about the security of greatness. the balkan nation of albania has been well explain mass protest in the capitals around of the south and our position policies there are staging an anti-government rally against what they call wind spread collapse. was going to occur was . the one activists. also demonstrating against organized crime allegations the government

though denies has a heavy security presence at the scene which is seen sporadic fires break out as opposition figures could be heard chanting anti-government slogans from a makeshift podium in the crowd. now 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 that's not all but he may be opposites on the political spectrum but it seems they've got more than strategic success in coleman 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 all while the different from his tone later on. for

a. white on white most attractive savage lot like foreigner 700. liters of all. right. here. very wired what it's like. to think you're. the one who actually. lost the problems are not bound by border drug climate you. know. and biden is not the only democrat to argue for stronger border defenses while running for office barack obama and hillary clinton working on that. 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 alligators 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 in a list and author daniel is gone told us that this hypocrisy in the democrat camp when it comes to border 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 arrangements promoted by nafta as assaulted of the the transport a lot of drugs and other substance is across the border so the democrats enjoy playing both sides of the they they have tried their best to keep immigrants out

they have contributed to. this mall conditions and central america which are generating waves and waves of refugees you know the same time they want to blame trump for not having the right really uproarious humane attitude of a both major parties are. implicated in this in this border disaster which is reaching truly. unprecedented proportions there's an example of accuracy 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 confirmed 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 1904 and victory means president several ramaphosa will have another 5 years to a pace those have accused them of failing to address the issues in the country like

corruption. well the main opposition party the democratic alliance picked up 21 percent of the votes last while the leftist economic freedom fighters took 11 percent all that's double what they received 5 years ago in the last election or now let's take 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 there is serious concern over theft and murder rates which are on the rise land reform has also triggered debate with why farmers holding the vast majority of private farm land were joined by a 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 the list on 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 where we were 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 head for that reason it still exists. but the parliament elections fast approaching debate has broken out in the union over the process that determines who takes the top job at the bloke's executive branch is our europe correspondent peter oliver. 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 air repair and to. in all but name. not so fast says 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 remaining 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. 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 off 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 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 successor soon they also have to find replacements for european council president donald to ski 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 release songs take place in europe well if you can reform the way you directly elected positions are filled with the e.u. institutions well the us may be more akin to a revolution theater all over altie burly. several lawmakers have been injured and one hospitalized after hong kong's legislative assembly descended into chaos the

ball was triggered by a meeting on plans changes to the island's extradition policy. the only thing a proposal was announced early this year by the region's probating leader it comes after a case involving a man from hong kong who allegedly killed his pregnant wife while on holiday in taiwan i currently hong kong can't extradite people to jurisdictions with which it has no agreement free speech advocates are concerned that suspects could be sent to face trial in mainland china or thirties however say the change is needed to ensure justice. well 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 has felons. we've been doing some quite detailed research

particularly with black students particularly in london looking at old stickles to applying to cambridge and thinking about cambridge and number 3 on the list was how dresses 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 canvassed in current students as part of efforts to encourage more applicants from more diverse backgrounds in 2017 only 2 percent of cambridge is intake were black or ethnic origin the terrorists were a 5th of student debt 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 came it was because this is a stereotype when i came here i found that our space is somewhat back on your phone about what a very small class coming to cambridge i've met so many different people people who

look like me but people who we hardly jasper a former equalities advisor to the marrow of london who say is the talk of hairdressers is just a diversion from the real issues facing lead of our city. 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 got to a 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 headdresses and steel pan and samosa nights to cure their problems. suffering from a lack of people the small school in rural france has taken us them up there's no measure to stay fully open turning to the last past to make up the numbers. but i thought 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 regret the reduction of the number of classes to 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 and menacing. by september 1st we will definitely have one class close to this it will be difficult to survive this means that the rest of the classes are going to be overstretched. clashes have broken out in several fronts at french cities and

between get our best protesters and police in what's the 20 think consecutive week of demonstrations across the country. i. think i. think it. was a little bit cynical because god expects. he looks like i'm a rally in paris this that today got caught in the rain and many could be seen carrying on grows the government's a sphere than $20000.00 people turned out across the country which would make this weekend's the weakest turnout since the beginning of the movement protest

organizers however claim over $37000.00 took part. let's return now it to that gas explosion is a building near rostov in southern russia 2 people have been killed while one is in a critical condition one victim a child died on the way to hospital the explosion caused part of the roof of the building to collapse almost 90 rescuers are working at the scene emergency crews have evacuated the building but fear that at least one more person could be hidden under the rubble we'll update you as more details become known well those are the headlines for you for this hour we're back in just over 30 minutes with all the latest see them.

geysers financial survival. when customers go buy your stuff. then else well reducing lower. that's undercutting but what's good for market for the global economy. all film begins in hawaii in the middle of the pacific ocean in spite of the island's remote location it is also foreman that day and to the epidemic of the 21st century plastic. and. plastic pollution is littering beaches and endangering certain species of animals no matter how remote or out of reach.

but. in this new bar a tree in the north of the occupied ago scientists study marine animals not plastic at least in theory. no idea what that is. but it's certainly plastic. and jessica perelman is a biologist accustomed to finding plastic in fish stomachs she has started a very unique connection. casually often plastic bags. and this was off of a stomach when i found it had no idea what it wasn't all that it just. or did you react when you find peace in the storm and i was shocked i started you know documenting it measuring it taking photos showing whoever else was around in the lab and we were kind of. we were just you know

a shock to think that that these fish are are really ingesting this i mean. how disbelief the scientist has found plastic in an unlikely specimen known as the long fish. the young was not expecting such a surprising discovery when she began how this. fish lives at a depth of about 200 to 400 metres and they're clearly coming in contact with plastic and it appears that plastic is truly a deeper problem that we might have imagined. even swimming at these depths fish manages to swallow trivial plastic objects. i mean occasionally you might find a brand name such as this. bottle label. what is this so this

is a label from a water bottle dishonored bottle clearly and found amongst the lancet. is a. design design is a pretty well known. bottled water company. you know finding finding a label such as this in the stomachs makes it that easy to determine where you know where it may have originated. this is always more to things than just. just want to know. in fact does sunny is one of the world's best selling brands. and if you're not familiar with dust on the you will certainly know the name of the group behind it the coca-cola company.

everyone knows coca-cola but not everyone necessarily knows that the group is in china. dozens of other brands just sunny as part of the coca-cola company and sprite 2 there is also minute maid powerade and of course one of the company's flagship brands. every year the group sells more than $120000000000.00 bottles across the globe that's almost $2000.00 bottles a 2nd and this mass production is creating a devastating mass pollution. in january 28th in the multinational made a bold announcement by 2030 the brand is promising a world without waste. and its james quincey coca-cola c.e.o. who is leading the movement. what we need to create is the circular color we need

to create value for that there's absolutely doable a world without waste thanks to unlimited plastic recycling but how reliable are the promises that this multinational can recycling really make this problem go away . with plastic becoming a global catastrophe reinvestigate if the company is promises and on competence secret strategy which contradicts that convincing prejudice and on up as one of those we don't know the state fire authorities are just starting over effect by the political folks for decades the multinational has been aware of the damage that it's plastic bottles off capable of causing but responsibility has never appeared to for long then. what is the reason behind this because ultimately it means it means higher costs for them in africa offering the soda giants american headquarters we are going to expose.