still. fails to appear before a london court for an extradition hearing with the wiki leaks founder lawyers saying his health is in rapid decline. pressure gets back at us claims that it is probably conducting nuclear tests in the arctic are calling the allegations are baseless. and a dramatic surge in crime in the london leads to some in the somali community to send their children to east africa to live in study. they feel for the safety of those children they fear dipsy could still feel themselves it's created very

dangerous for them. or broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us at a british court has postponed an extradition hearing for julian assange after the health of the wiki leaks founder sharply deteriorated this according to lawyers and songes currently in prison in london boyko has more. the extradition hearing isn't taking place any longer today the sound was actually meant to be here in person he was meant to pair via video link but he's not even well enough to appear via video link 10 minutes on has been moved to the hospital wing all belmarsh prison that's up to a maximum security prison where 7 out of 53 eccentric specifically when he went into the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 and went to the stable brain inside about

the face of his health what we know is that he was of course only the medical ward of belmont and the fact that they did this and it may put him on the world speaks speaks publicly and so you know being in a higher security max the maximum security prison is difficult for anyone but julian spent 7 years confined in the ecuadorian embassy before but without medical treatment without most of the medical treatment so he's gone in a bit of a worse state than most people might think i'm here we are outside westminster magistrate school this was meant to be the 2nd hearing about this on just the extradition it will have to be a fairly procedural affair when there wasn't any major arguments from a scientific team or the presentation the official start of it has been moved to around about the 12th of june we think but essentially the question of what's meant to be all huge and boils down to 2 fundamental things it is take to get us on to

act as a journalist when he published those roads that secret us materials and information and crucially for him is the u.k. going to allow him to be handed over to the us also as he is where he could face up to hundreds and 75 years behind bars which are. 17 counts on the espionage act and one commentator just about actually in his face and i'm 75 years in prison which is outrageous the idea that a publisher can be. prosecuted and persecuted publishing the truth and face a lifetime and in a prison in another country is outrageous this espionage act was never the full of induced against agenda certainly against government officials who leaked secrets in the cost of course washington's argument is that a sound isn't such on the list that he's a cad and that his publications put the lives of informants for the u.s.

. for its allies around the world in grave danger although what's interesting here is that with the charges unveiled against. a lot of people even his critics of which there have been many many press freedom organizations and just journalists some whistleblowers around the world say that what happens with this exhibition case could have serious implications for the freedom of the press them for journalists all around the world which is why i think on this so you much attention . right supporters of the wiki leaks founder also staged a protest outside the court earlier in the week calling for his release documentary filmmaker john pilger told us earlier he believes the songes case it's a dangerous precedent for journalists but what these new charges really or to strike. ring a bell at the very least it strikes fear into many investigative journalists

who have been have been with wiki leaks in the meanwhile julian assange through this whole i would say the sting would step aside. for releasing the book through about government secrets and how they affect all of us to warn the sisters those people should be very very good. their own old. newspapers gaudium new york times or spiegel you know. there are individuals who have done no more. no less no less than julian assange so they could all be targets and. meanwhile an alleged wiki leaks associate and friend of joiners songe was denied bail by a judge in ecuador on wednesday being me who is a swedish national stands accused of hacking the government computers in the south

american nation the 37 year old cyber security expert was arrested last month while trying to leave ecuador on that same day that assad was affected from the country's embassy binny has been refusing to cooperate with investigators and has not yet been formally charged his lawyer told us bin his rights are being violated. or this process is only taking place because my client is a friend of julian and song there is no other explanation than. any has been living here for more than 5 years and he has been developing special software designed to protect privacy in other words he has been working on the very opposite of what he stands accused of the way their quote during government is treated my client is unconstitutional it violates his human rights from the beginning the reasons for his arrest have been unclear it is still unclear exactly what system was attacked when and how he did it and such that the prosecutors have no grounds to prove this case any further. russia has denied us allegations that it is probably

conducting nuclear bomb tests in the arctic the head of america's defense intelligence agency made that claim on wednesday without providing any evidence. united states believes that russia probably is not hearing the nuclear testing moratorium in a manner consistent with 0 year old standard. our understanding of nuclear weapon development leads us to believe russia is testing out to use would help improve its nuclear weapon capabilities. in public between the u.s. and russia what you saw there was a speech that was given at the huston institute in washington by the director of the u.s. defense intelligence agency to the world questioning moscow's approach to nuclear testing and saying that this help russia in hans new head designs now russia's categorically denied any of the violations that they've been accused of of that

accord and perhaps this time on this occasion russia have got a point they've actually got the backing of an organization called the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty organization the to be. a bit of a mouthful there let's have a listen quickly to what they had to say the sea has full confidence in the ability of its monitoring system to detect nuclear test explosions but despite having that backing the opposition to russia has continued as you can see by that speech by the americans and it's these specific accusations that have angered the russians this time the officials have not been shy in responding we've got a little insight into what the foreign ministry had to say about this unfortunately search verbal attacks transmitted by the world's media have become commonplace. as a rule they occur when washington is determined to withdraw from another international treaty or has been accused of not complying with one we cannot rule

out the washington is preparing to use this as cover for the resumption of its own full scale nuclear weapons it seems that has become the norm and it is those loose words that they seem to be using like russia is probably not adhering to an international treaty or a questionable approach overwhelming evidence highly likely we've heard it so often and those general accusations have really caused again these diplomatic tensions despite the fact that they have the backing on this occasion we can really have a look at what accusations we've seen over the last few years the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible quarrel is with putin's kremlin and we think overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision we also believe that it's highly likely that they're complicit with the chemical weapons use but what mike said yesterday i think we have very very high confidence is

accurate i think it reflects the role russia has in venezuela from russia's standpoint the russia's ambassador to the u.s. he said he doesn't understand why that these discussions go on going through the correct channels the correct diplomatic channels from the u.s. point of view they've made it absolutely clear that they do not trust the way that russia is doing its nuclear testing and developments and the question is are they going to be able to sort out this latest batch behind closed doors or are we going to continue to see them wash their dirty laundry in public international affairs commentator jonathan steele believes the u.s. should provide evidence to support its allegations. but if they said there is strong evidence there's convinced you know that in secret sound better than just to say. probably is to very. it's based on intelligence which is to be fooled anyway well this is standard us unilateralism i mean if you come on to the

iranian scene it's the same thing is it should be done with visions at a press conference which everybody has a chance to ask questions to him favorite media outlets and giving them little tidbits of so-called intelligence assessments which nobody can prove one way or the other. a knife crime epidemic in london has prompted some families to take a drastic action growing numbers of british teenagers of somali heritage are being sent to live in east africa by their parents away from the violence despite somalia being regarded as one of the world's most dangerous countries u.k. foreign office warns against all travel there due to the high risk of terrorism and kidnapping partridge has more on the surprising trend. stabbings of young people across england have become epidemic in those few years i was doing my a levels it was tough just seeing people being dropped every other day being stabbed

london is not the place to be for a teenager when they're living here in britain the context is britain this is a british problem and it's a problem that with fallen into one of the things i'll never forget is the fact that when you walk in the streets of kenya you don't have to go over your shoulder here i could travel women out of the city go and visit her about wanted and it was good i felt a sense of freedom when i came here it was like a clean slate my mum feels i'm much safer here than anywhere else in the world and it's not just parents and teenagers who are worried the author or it is are also raising the alarm i'd have to say that the last couple of years on down to julie have been as dave said the highest and most worrying levels i think in my service and it is really worrying 50 people who have been stabbed to death in the capital since the beginning of the year and what's even more worrying that number has almost doubled in the past 2 years in hammersmith and fulham in west london there

has been an 84 percent rise in these crimes from 236 in 2017 to 18 to 434 in 2018 to 19 while in central london there has been a hike of around 52 percent in knife crime the number rising from 652985 and kensington and chelsea has also experienced an increase in knife related incidents a 25 percent spike from 262-2328 were home secretaries side you job it has called the rise in violent crime a national emergency and the targets are often teenagers from black communities i know for terms of. the 5. 5 there is. you know a very different picture than lee what used to be people could buy here they say to you. they feel for the safety of their children they fear death safe if you're

really off them selves i think it's very very dangerous for young people it's really dangerous even do a lot of. positive activity good for them out of london for the local authorities from the event do a lot of good for good and the problem is so you wall off camera somali people in north london say gang related crime is the real problem several refused to be filmed because they fear reprisals for speaking out and to save their children some parents even prefer to send them back to africa while job it is promising to put 20000 policeman back on the streets to fight this virulent disease somehow africa seems safer than london us establishment remains polarized over the trump russia probe after the resignation of a special counsel robert muller that story and much more when we come back.

what politicians do you sometimes think. they put themselves on the line they get except throw. so when you want to be president and you. want. to going to be pros this is what the 3 of them can't be good. i'm interested

in the war. i welcome back this is our team international now donald trump has lashed out at former special counsel robert muller who led the 2 year inquiry into alleged russian collusion speaking outside the white house the us president called him totally conflicted and condemned the probe as a giant presidential harassment and is after miller resigned from his post and said his report did not exonerate trump of obstruction of justice and his commentary. robert muller is all done the special counsel's office is closing and he's going to

retire and to celebrate $35000000.00 in 2 years' worth of work he decided to address the media there's an old psychological test they call the war shack and basically it's a set of ambiguous ink blots it's up to the mind of the patient to determine what to see and 10 minute presentation of robert seems a very much be in the eyes of the holder if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime it's not that different from what he said at the end of his report but the democrats certainly took a lot from the statement of the mother was essentially referring impeachment to the united states congress. statement makes it clear congress has a legal and moral obligation to begin impeachment proceedings immediately miller statement makes clear with those who have read his report no it's an impeachment referral and it's up to congress to act they shewed given the special counsel was

unable to pursue criminal charges against the president if the congress threw stones of the crimes and other wrongdoing of president trump and we will do so i think it was very clear if you could clear the president he would have but he couldn't makes clear well muller said the report speaks for itself we chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself and the report is my testimony now trumper the opposite from robert mueller he says he's in the clear nothing changes from the reports there was insufficient evidence and therefore in our country a person is innocent the case is closed thank you then the white house press secretary clarified with the statement there was no real news and there he reiterated the points that he'd already made in the report. that we agree with them there was no collusion there was no conspiracy and we consider this case closed he completed his investigation now he's closed his office and it's time for everybody

to move on the report has been published the investigation is long over but the saga continues both sides are sticking to what they said all along so you have to ask yourself if everyone was just going to keep saying what they've said the entire time impeached or no collusion why did we have the investigation to begin with. our new york legal and media analyst the lionel believes there was never any justification for the mower. the interesting thing to note is one of the reasons why many suspect he doesn't want to speak to congress is one that republicans asked him when did you know this how many years ago how many months into this investigation did you come to the conclusion a either there was no evidence are there was no reason to charge him but how long have you been stringing the country and the president and the world along why here's another question for you if you

can't end dive here if those were the rules why did you investigate him in the 1st place did you know these rules before or did you know the rules before that say you can indict him or charge him then what were you investigating ah you were investigating collusion and by the way did you notice such a paltry a de minimus amount of time that was that was given to the reason for this what was this russian collusion explain this more. now for something completely different dutch u.f.o. spotters went into overdrive on saturday when a row of strange objects were seen in the sky over the netherlands an amateur astronomer captured the images of a mystery trail turned out to be the 1st part of a satellite program by entrepreneurial on musk's space x. a company heading into orbit he plans to launch nearly $12000.00 of them this year

with the aim of helping provide internet access to unwired parts of the globe but it seems not everyone was prepared for the surprise of seeing so many new celestial bodies heading skywards one that local u.f.o. website received 150 reports of an alien invasion and some professional stargazers are concerned that the night sky will now be changed to for the worse. i know people are excited about those images of the train of space x. stalling satellites but it gives me pause if space x. launches all 12000 they will outnumber the stars visible to the naked eye i consist of us from my garden down to magnitude 5 i'm on the edge of the city lots of light pollution and can just see the milky way 1600 stars a bright of the night 5 thanks to space 6 star link i will soon see 7 satellites for every single star to those upset about how bright the elon musk's starling set

allies are please don't forget their hair and his impact on radio astronomy you know on musk later asked his team to investigate ways to reduce the amount of light reflecting off the satellites one astrophysicist we spoke to things that even more companies will be encouraged to use the night sky as a business platform in the future. visual issue which is that. you telescopes usually track the stars in the sky and then the satellites move not according to the stars in the sky but according to their orbits which is a bit faster and that leaves huge trade treats in the images when you analyze them and therefore this is a huge problem that you have to deal with we usually s.s. numbers we deal with these kind of problems but if the number of satellites increased to post to us with the brightness is maintained as we hope served ross weekend then that this could be really problematic but that's in the optical

reading which is the kind of light that we can see the order praline to the radio which i think it's even worse because there's some leakage of radio signals from the southern lights it might have been that the vehicle ation have to be updated in terms of how many players want to get into this business which is you know really big providing law internet for everyone sounds like a good idea but is really this kind of this the price but we want to paper because you know this this case for everyone in. the i mean if we want to pay the price of the fine but someone has to ask this 1st i think. the pentagon has confirmed it is adding russia to a list of countries who space technology services cannot be used to beyond 2022 russia has long provided the international market with engines on boosters for satellites and is involved in numerous projects aimed at launching foreign spacecraft into orbit in the coming years among the other countries on the u.s.

blacklist are china north korea and iran russia space agency has strongly criticized the move saying it undermines international cooperation in space. political analyst question morality believes that world powers need to work together on space exploration. but relation in space affairs is essential to maintain or use these things so no matter what these moves from the us are but it's still the way so it does seem as if more concepts will go to other players and their region seems to come up and it takes real negotiation it takes hold you got to approach make sure. that doesn't for me i'll be back with more news of the top of the hour you are watching our team interact national.

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aims are because it's going to be the sum total of all the people who are working on these algorithms a whistleblower someone who used to work for facebook came forward last year and said i was one of the news curators at facebook a bunch of us to sit around every day and we used to remove stories from the news feed that were too conservative and now and then we inject a story that we thought was really cool. facebook founder mark zuckerberg says he's committed to giving everyone a voice he's from responding to an allegation that facebook edits conservative views out of its trending topics they can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be seeing based on what your followers are presenting now a new report claims that according to a former facebook employee the social media mega con. sometimes ignore is what is actually trending among its 1000000000 users if the story originated from

a conservative news source or if it's a topic causing buzz among conservatives. facebook cosily manipulates or users they do it by the things that they insert into the news feeds they do it by the types of posts they allow their users to see and the fact that they actually decided to do psychological experiments on the users is something that i think a lot of people need to really fully understand and they were doing it based upon the fact that different things that people posted they want to see how other people would react to it on how to watch what your facebook friends posts can have a direct effect on your mood new research shows the more negative post you see the more negative you could become. so if for example let's say somebody wanted to post something that was on the news feed that was a very negative story they want to see how their users would react via their likes by their statements for their posts and they would show people who already had

a predilection to maybe having some depression or maybe having some other issues in their lives and they can figure that out based upon your like space upon your connections based upon where you're going and so what they want to do is take that information and then use it to basically weaponize this information against their users so that way their users could see different things that may affect their mood and may affect how they interact with others and that's something that is highly unethical it appears that some young people may have been so affected by this that they may have done harm to themselves based upon what they saw on their facebook feed and it was all because it is experiments and things that we have no standing with facebook we're not citizens of facebook we have no blood on facebook it's not a democracy it is this process is not a way we can design the future we can't rely on this single company to invent our digital future.

there's there's what i call the creepy line and the little policy about a lot of these things is to get right up for the creepy line but not cross at google crosses the creepy line every day. not only does google cross the creepy line the location of that line you keep shifting well it's an interesting word creepy right because it's a word that connotes horror he didn't say dangerous he didn't say an ethical there's all sorts of words that could have fit in that slot he said creepy and a creep is someone who creeps around and follows you and spies on you for unsavory purposes right that's the definition of a creep you know i don't think the typical ethical person says i'm going to push right up to the line of creepy and stop there you know they say more something like how about we don't get near enough to the creepy line so that we're ever. in gauging in even pseudo creepy behavior because creepy is really bad you know it's.

a creepy mugger is worse than a mug.