as the u.s. ramps up the pressure on iran senator bernie sanders accuses donald trump's national security adviser of trying to lead america into a war with iran as they did with. russian games designer faces up to 10 years in the u.s. jail for allegedly smuggling f. 16 fighter jet manuals that the country he claims he wanted to make his flight simulator game more realistic prosecutors accuse him of conspiring against the u.s. government and chinese telecom giant the u.s. its latest move against the company won't make america safer but will hinder the development of 5 g. networks in the country that's after washington put the firm on

a trade blacklist banning the use of its equipment. at this point we are definitely not seeing any benefit it's it's just pain american farmers lament the impact to be escalating u.s. china trade war saying don't look from support mr benefits to u.s. agriculture failing to materialize and 5 tech giants commit to tackling violent and extreme online comments and it's after facebook failed to prevent the live streaming of the new zealand terror attack guests discuss them. absolutely necessary given the volume of content but the technology simply isn't up to it yet so they're dragging their feet it's one sense and they know exactly what has to be done and they're simply not the only. 1 o'clock here in moscow are you watching international 2020 presidential hopeful

bernie sanders has accused the u.s. national security adviser john bolton of trying to push america into a war with iran in a way that is reminiscent of another american campaign. the author. of the efforts right now to get us into war in iraq is the guy who was the architect of getting goes into the war in iraq and that is. busy so you know i worry about provocations on the part of the united states in recent days washington has taken many measures to counter what it calls a credible threat from iran the u.s. is awarded all the stuff active its embassy in iraq it's also sent b. $52.00 bombers and their carries to the region media reports suggest there is intelligence images too of missiles on the reigning boats in the persian gulf sparking fears that they might actually be used against american troops although the images haven't been published despite the lack of clear evidence for

a heightened threat from terror washington continues to make noises about what. their neighbors are spread instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare or ran around major destabilizing influence in the middle east spread death destruction and chaos the leaders of iran are rocketeers world's largest financier of international terrorism behind every problem is a wreck and what we've been trying to do is to get iran to behave like a normal vision alas for john bolton and his approach to foreign policy we unearth some of his old interviews from 2010 where he does admit he would lie in the name of american national security at martin asked americans what they think about that . john bolton has a very important job keeping americans safe after all that is the job of the national security adviser and it's very important for americans to trust someone in

that position john bolton wasn't always the national security adviser here's something he said before he got the job if i had to say something i knew was false to protect american national security i would do it so considering that john bolton has a pretty important position in terms of influencing the president on international matters you think it might be a concern if he says things consistently that turn out to be false we decided to ask new yorkers. iran continues to seek nuclear weapons and intimidate peaceful people is that true not. true i guess that's false. so the one year period that we've talked about from the point where north korea makes to strategic decision to denuclearize is something that north and south koreans have already agreed to is that true or false false this sounds like something that's not true doesn't seem to fit right. i'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities well i mean just the other

quotes pretty much speak for themselves that john bolton doesn't seem to have a golden record however that doesn't seem to put him in any danger of losing his job at least for now. you would lie in order to preserve the truth if i had to say something i knew was false to protect american national security i would do it bolton is the point man little. jackal to carry this effort to for it and to topple the elected government of iran and while we can see the history and record of john bolton as being in favor of the wars from iraq to going as well that they were wrong and he's always and they were imperial wars abroad so from a political perspective we have to see this as

a reflection of the system itself the united states they want the oil in iran and whenever a bully wants to take something out of your position then they will allege provocations to justify that violence that they're getting ready to perpetuate. the russian embassy in washington alleges that u.s. intelligence may have staged a provocation that after russian gains designer was detained on suspicion of trying to export u.s. fighter jet manuals wanted to send faces up to 10 years in jail for smuggling on stalk him and some profiting against the u.s. government john hawkins has the story. conspiracy to smuggle classified documents an undercover sting operation and a trail leading to russia gradients for a classic james bond movie but for a leg to show. it's playing out in real life not on the silver screen with no hint

of glamour the russian citizen is set to go on trial in august in the united states the charges are serious conspiring against the us smuggling and violating almost export control laws and you know despite decades of stereotypes about russians it's the titian co isn't a secret agent or a spy many would label him a computer nerd a guy whose passion and job was developing airplane flight simulators like this one . according to the manuals he wanted to obtain were to improve his knowledge of the jets and build them into a flight simulation game the problem is that despite the clear availability of such materials online only those with government licenses can export such manuals and because of u.s. sanctions on moscow sending them to russia is

a big no no honestly it's a very strange situation i don't know why the united states would allow these minerals to be sold in the 1st place if they were if they could be used against the united states so there's a contradiction there if you can purchase them in the united states foreigners come to the united states purchase them and read them and we really did assume that statute has a huge loophole which would suggest that. someone at some level of prosecution has done so titian co was charged in absentia here back in 2016 although he was none the wiser and after traveling to a festival in neighboring georgia early this year he was swiftly detained and extradited at the u.s. government's request eagle dynamics the software company where a leg worked for many years. have distanced themselves from the whole story eagle

dynamics confirms that it was not involved in any way in the actions of its employee who acted in a purely private context and his own personal interests the company develops all of its d.c.'s aircraft gain modules exclusively on the basis of publicly available information and has never used nor tried to taint any classified information at least the computer whiz isn't entirely alone the russian embassy in the us has been following the case accusing u.s. intelligence services of carrying out a provocation the russian embassy in the u.s. is keeping a close eye on the situation surrounding the arrest of a russian national teaching co who was extradited from georgia 5 charges have been brought against him including smuggling violating the arms export control act and conspiracy against the interests of the united states there are indications that this is a provocation staged by u.s. intelligence agencies the claim isn't entirely without foundation after homeland security took an interest in titian co an undercover agent posing as

a buyer of air play money was contacted titian co to catch him out and gather evidence on his nefarious activities it seems that a software designer and play in the simulation enthusiastic warranted an undercover sting operation so while tisha go faces 10 years or more of prison both simulators and fighter jet miles are available online across the world just be careful where you post them and who you talk to online. if e-bay is allowing military documents to be sold they really should have a full notice of the statute that it violates so that there's no doubt that somebody who's buying them. fully understands the consequences the american was knowingly selling something to somebody who was a russian i mean that's really something that's you know not be. loyal to your country if frankly anybody should go to jail if they could be the american and

lucky should. 5 major tech giants have committed to combating violent content online after worldling discouraged them to do so at a summit in paris or that meeting was convened in response to the terror attack in christchurch in new zealand which was live streamed and then widely shared over facebook terrorism foiling to extremism are complex societal problems that require all of society the response from our blog the commitments we're making today will further strengthen the part was the government's decided to acknowledge industry must have to address this threat the tech firms have signed up to banning anybody who shares violent content without good reason they promise to follow up material flagged as terrorist more promptly and to pay more attention to live streams in new zealand 10 people have been charged for sharing the video with the christchurch massacre just to remind you back in march a gunman killed 51 people in 2 mosques there the video was uploaded some one and

a half 1000000 times on facebook in the 24 hours that followed the life stream where we discussed who should shoulder responsibility for removing bad content the platforms or the uses of privacy activists bill new media analysts lionel and also rights attorney jennifer brink. you have an army not just with facebook but with twitter there's an army of contractors employees and other people who are there to immediately get it off right away as has been stated this happens with people that espouse certain political opinions and other ideologies and so now we're talking about you know we're talking about getting off far more egregious things monitoring or moderating in real time what these videos are and what becomes and is funding some research to try and improve their ability to detect this in real time with sort of automated means which is absolutely necessary given the volume of content but the technology simply isn't up to it yet the idea of somebody actually showing

in broadcasting real time slaughter of human beings i make it even simpler what if this was an actual real time live stream of child pornography nobody would be even debating this i would say you've got to fix this technology and now this is nothing to do with freedom of expression nothing to do with the dissemination of ideas in no way does it violate and by the way very quickly safe book has the most incredible celerity what it comes to shutting down and immediately knocking somebody off who are spouses a poll a little opinion just by merely supporting somebody you need to recognize the fact that a 1000000 copies were taken down effectively and we need to actually take the ads off to facebook the fact that it did take down so many different copies what do we do if there is a vent that is not necessarily being filmed by the perpetrator but it's already

being filmed by hundreds of thousands of other people be it the olympics or the world cup or the whole joy any large gathering which is already being filmed i mean we had a pipe bomb go off at the atlanta olympics that killed 2 people and injured a 100 if we had had small bones back then there would have been any number of different video. shots of me tell you sleep and actually dealing with all those in real time would be almost impossible but those were the perpetrators do you punish them is that report told do you allow that what about people who have killed me atrocities and they're doing genuine reports do you allow that if it appears to be atrocious attacks of the 4 we actually have to be slightly more realistic than saying the technology could do it come on get you move get a move over there as a formal complicated challenge and they have i do believe and i know that they have this technology not only do they have that they have hundreds upon thousands of employees of contractors of people whose jobs it is to sit there and to see what's

coming up and the moment something that is violent that is agree just that is horrific the horrific thing about this is that we are now given social media giants like facebook and twitter a very very severe amount of power that was supposed to only be a spouse of the us government federal government and state governments under the 1st amendment and now it's as if social media giants and platforms like facebook or twitter have taken over the you know what you guys have your 1st amendment governments you can't do anything we're the ones who dictate your speech now that's dangerous and that's something that needs to be consistently watched i don't want to hear anybody tell me that the technology's not there or there's no way to monitor this because let me tell you something if this war is something that was contrary to the zuckerberg world view it would be awful for anybody even thought it so they're dragging their feet it's nonsense and they know exactly what has to be done and they're simply not doing it he was not international back with more news just off the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is also a spearing dramatic development is only going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. you know world of big partisan loot. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the

middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. again the chinese telecom giant huawei has hit back at the us for thanks if we banning the sale of its products in america washington says it's put the firm on a trade blacklist for security reasons but insists the u.s. will just end up paying more for lower quality 5 g. equipment for an obvious series are increasingly creating an explosive vulnerabilities in information and communications technology and services which store and communicate vast amounts of sensitive information the executive order

says that these foreign adversaries are a major national security threat of course china has said that there has been no evidence that that huawei worked through actually with the chinese government which is what the u.s. is a very. much concerned about this comes days after the u.s. and china fail to meet a trade deal now the u.s. has threatened time and time again countries who continue to use while way products and have said that they will row back on sharing intelligence with these countries australia and japan so far have been to countries who have it here to the us and not using a wall way however just recently the u.k. and germany said that they would allow 5 g.'s a huawei with limited access into their countries and the u.s. has already been angered by this information now the u.s. bans this chinese company from doing business here in the u.s. and this can also delay then 5 g.

in the race for tech. has expressed its willingness to quote to engage with the u.s. government to come up with effective measures to ensure program security expert to tell us the latest move by washington against could affect ordinary consumers of the humor. basically you potentially could see a slowdown in 5 g.s. women taishan those that are armed to not go along with the hallway buying. that could then impact impact on of different things a lot of different new innovations and things like that could be could be impacted in it just creates a big mess and smardz trade goes and i think the consumers overall will end up paying a price that some some point in time whether or not getting the type of industry and innovation that they're expecting or do stuff particularly in the 5 g.

area or focus you need to deal with this company and that that and so really will shut down the competitive nature that we're supposedly advocating. and we're stuck with that trade will between the 2 countries because u.s. stocks did take a tumble over the last few days cheating to protect terrorists imposed by beijing and also washington and american farmers are apparently among those who are losing at. the prices that we can get forever so i beings has put as. close to $2.00 a bushel below breakeven which is you know it is nobody can can make that last very long and stay in business. at this point we are definitely not seeing any benefit it's it's just pain.

however you feel about the chinese market and the way that they've treated. trade wise in the past. it's a fact that the chinese market is is what has made us profitable in growing soybeans hopefully in the end the trade agreement is something that is very beneficial to me as a producer here in the united states but also to the people in china. the trade agreement has to be win win or it's not going to happen last week washington high tariffs on $200000000000.00 worth of chinese goods beijing responded with similar countermeasures claims that america is actually benefiting from the trade with

china by cashing in on import taxes the head of the bin association says that chinese tariffs will have a severe impact on the u.s. . so libyans are really been at the tip of the spear if you will and the retaliation from the chinese over the u.s. trade in the chinese trade dispute but it certainly impacted corman of products from the u.s. as well as livestock particularly pork kultury and of course a host of other non agricultural products so you know this you know the any disruption in trade between the u.s. and any of its major trading partners will certainly have an impact on farmers from a soybean perspective keep in mind that china currently buys spots 60 percent of all the soybeans traded in the world 60 percent so when the u.s. says destruction in that relationship that china it certainly has a major impact on soybean it's about one out of every 3rd row worth or about

a 3rd of the toll the u.s. oil being brought to piggly would end up in china course today that's not happening . meanwhile the u.s. has clashed with the european union in one of the blocks plans to create a nami president donald trump slammed the idea saying it undermines the can i tell you the parliament recently voted in favor of allocating 13000000000 euros to a joint military budget as peter all of the reports. it's been one of the foreign policy tropes of the trump presidency that european nato allies need to boost their defense spending i want europe to pay germany pays one percent they should be paying 4 percent. to pay one percent they should be paying even more than that european nations have stepped up their research and development into weapon systems away from the us defense industry including a franco german plan to develop a new european fighter jet but this doesn't sit well with washington in fact the

trump government has sent a letter to the e.u. foreign policy chief federica maka rini warning that the european defense cooperation all pascoe under 15000000000 euro european defense fund could fall foul of existing transatlantic military agreements the draft european development fund regulation and permanent structured cooperation general conditions represented dramatic reversal of the last 3 decades of increased integration of the transatlantic defense sector it would seem that the european union haven't really understood what president meant by spend more money on defense reading between the lines it probably would have been clearer if he'd said by made in the usa the letter to mockery me also contained well less than subtle threat should the e.u. continue down this path it's clear that simulate reciprocally imposed u.s. restrictions would not be welcomed by our european partners now allies and we would

not relish having to consider them in the future when you take a look at how much defense sales for european allies was worth to the us economy between the period of 2008 to 2018 it's clear to see why washington isn't keen on a move away from the status quo germany spent a $1000000000.00 and took almost 2 thirds of its foreign military imports from the united states norway notes and a u. member of course but a member of the nato alliance on greece. they spent almost one and a half $1000000000.00 while italy took over half of its foreign military imports from the u.s. and spent close to $2000000000.00 the white house will you would expect also be watching closely how proposals for a european defense force backed by french president emmanuel macdraw in chancellor merkel here in germany develop of the e.u. reaction to the letter from the united states to try and keep things calm. the european union is and remains open to u.s.

companies and equipment with trump said to be in europe next month we can expect more calls to boost defense spending as long of course as you buy from the united states peter all of the berlin the former vice president of the parliamentary assembly of the u.s. even even to say that nato would not speak weakened by any you are me. it is 0 ongoing war effort on the side of you know just suits and their farm when we come. in your we have to be loyalists to go bold so this question the legality is that there was always pressure on the side of soon not just suits to move it to look at them from your sources and there's us not seeing your when it comes to all the looting in it all where nobody sees as it at least not. as

a country is located in the triune arm or even so action for the nation and therefore orders policy in the west and therefore it is the behavior of somebody who sees your there's a plunder a are not as a. san francisco has banned the use of facial recognition technology by police and other agencies saying it endangered civil rights and liberties the move makes the city america's 1st to block it despite the fact the much of it was developed in the local tech hub of silicon valley. the propensity for facial recognition technology to enduring just civil rights and civil liberties substantially outweighs its purported benefits and the technology will exacerbate racial injustice and threaten our ability to live free of continuous government monitoring we all support good policing but none of us want to live in a police state. facial recognition technology uses video to identify

a person from large databases to facial imagery can be used for marketing purposes to for example to deliver targeted to 1st instance on hoardings so we're already being deployed for security at many american airports and stadiums by a number of police departments to the widest state of california has also taken measures to protect people's liberties from new technology in particular from surveillance last year it approved legislation bolstering people's rights in this area it came after the data harvesting scandal involving facebook and cambridge analytical we spoke to chris kate c. he's the founder of unseen an encrypted internet he thinks that it is hypocritical . in so facial technologies but that mistreat them in your own country. says that this is very powerful technology and the question is do you need safeguards for it or not if the police are going to use it to find criminals and

then the question is what rights do people actually have to keep their face from being used it's only a matter of time before they abuse it and use it turn it into a police state and turn everyone into a criminal if you're selling something that's used to persecute people in some other place. you know and yet you you you make it illegal to do that in your own home country it's definitely a double standard to give you an example we call it cisco doing exactly the same thing with the communist chinese they were taking they were actually helping persecute people using their technology to identify people in china who are meditating who are being persecuted and yet they sell that same hardware all over the world so it's against the law in the u.s. to do that kind of thing but yet there this giant multinational corporation ends up doing it in places like china it's completely hypocritical. international thanks the company don't forget that we've got plenty of stories to you at our website you

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