just try reading. the u.s. and iran trade barbs at a un security council meeting as the other member states call for calm. this hour the u.k. stop citing crowd control weapons to hong kong over the recent protests the crackdown that seeks to resume arms exports to saudi arabia that despite the bombing campaign in yemen. government admits it's lost track of around $160.00 islamic extremists who travel to iran and syria. from moscow what's your thought international just for midnight here in the caps i

don't holkins thanks for joining us on the program. and world powers have called for an urgent deescalation between the u.s. and iran and boys from the 2 countries addressed the u.n. security are threatening peace and security globally must not be downplayed in the name of preserving a deal the doesn't fully cut off iran's path to a nuclear weapon the international community should also visit against us lawlessness if you want our ward to be governed by the rule of law not by a good will of power the united states has made clear its willingness to engage in dialogue with iran to negotiate a deal that will better serve international peace and security we hear certain that nobody is planning a regime change in iran and at the same time we hear threats about obliteration and new sanctions are being introduced there are calls for dialogue and then in power of well openly they declare the intention to increase military presence in the region such signals which even an experienced cryptologist would struggle to decode which can only bring the situation to

a point of no return germany jointly with the remaining participants will continue to work to ensure that iran can receive the economic benefits from sanctions really i won't. once again to call for deescalation for dialogue and for full respect the international rules of the u.s. president threaten to obliterate iran if iran attacks anything american that was off the ranch president said the white house was suffering from a mental disorder and later defended his aggressive tweets but it measured did you want to see your tweet did you know ok with the messages when they're ready to have to let us know. when they're ready they'll let us know very simple to go to. whatever doesn't make any difference whatever they want to do i'm already have an exit strategy for iran if we're. going to need an exit strategy. i don't need the exit strategy. i mean while the president of iraq has said he

won't allow the u.s. to use his country to launch any kind of military action against their neighbors the american troops the coalition troops in iraq again at the invitation of the iraqi government for the specific exclusive mission of fighting isis we do not want to be a staging post foot any hostile action against any of our neighbors including iran former u.k. army officer charles shoe british believes america is isolated in its harsh starts on to iran. what iraq has said today is largely consistent with what the rest of the world is saying 2 or rather perhaps more pointedly what the rest of the world isn't saying even britain arguably the closest one of the closest u.s. allies hunting herself said today that he couldn't imagine or couldn't. the circumstances under which the u.k. would join in with the us and in that attack on iran it's an indication of the messaging that's going on that perhaps with the exception of maybe israel or

countries such as saudi arabia the united states perhaps stands pretty isolated in its campaign of i think what could be fairly called aggression against iran at the current time so increasingly we're seeing america actually isolated from even its closest allies in its campaign against iran at present donald trump has also claimed that the real reason lee rainie and people are suffering is because of their government spending all of its money on terror while the white house continues to insist it's not seeking regime change in the country there is one group that would perhaps like to see take power there were guys there for ports. sometimes i get the impression that trump knows what the iranian people want better than the uranian people he his government congress talk so much about how the iranian people want the said that this is good for them and math bad for them it's almost like they knew each other obviously the people of iran are great people you

know i know many of them i live in new york have been there very much less to have for years but i know many arabians living in new york and they're fantastic people personally i have my doubts about the iranians trump knows being representative of the entire nation but whatever there is one group of the rains that the white house and friends knew very well could even say that pounds jad dean heil or the people of iran will make for sure they've been busy bees lately last friday they got together in washington protested leslie calling for regime change and the removal of iran's supreme leader. we've always been saying no war no appeasement but change by the iranians and

they've shown that in uprisings that it's what the across iran where they chant just like you hear in the background we want regime change in iran and that's that never mind what moves the rain ians the ones actually in iran think on the matter but i digress american politicians love these guys mek they were almost called them you stand for free or rhyme but you stand for democracy you stand for human rights keep up your fight. those who love and cherish freedom in our country and throughout the world stand with you stand. you're on the right side of history right in fact the united states has big plans for these mujahedeen great expectations they're destined to rule the declared policy of the united states of america should be the overthrow of the mullahs

regime in tehran and that's why the 429 t. we here will celebrate in tehran thank you for. now that introductions are over let me tell you about them or just dean of iran it hasn't been 10 years since they were removed from america's terror lists still in plenty of others make killed anyone who didn't like shootings assassinations bombings targeting police iranian officials civilians just for supporting the government americans yeah both in iran and in america and yet since they renounced violence they would taken off these blacklists the department does not overlook or forget the mujahideen had exposed to acts of terrorism including its involvement in the killing of us citizens in the run in $2970.00 s. and an attack on the us soil in 1902 the department also has serious concerns about

the mujahedeen hynix as an organization particularly with regard to the geishas of abuse committed against its own members oh yeah they don't just target others they target each other to the best traditions of every crazy cult human rights watch says abuses carried out against dissident members range from beatings and imprisonment to torture and threats of execution according to each r.w. one guy tried to naive the mujahideen would you believe it for this. he cried he was kept in solitary confinement for 8 years scientologists you've got nothing on these guys aside from maybe influence according to recently released documents makers organize dozens of meetings with us politicians interviews features articles with big media begs the question of course where do they get the money iranians are

donating make has almost no support in iran the answer is well they do the odd job according to this alleged conversation between mek members released by iran. did our best to blame the iranian regime for the oil tanker blasts the saudis have called maryam rajavi the office to follow up on the results to get a conclusion of what has been done and the possible consequences look at it this way whoever's financing them isn't doing it because they're nice they aren't you know the saying the enemy of my enemy is my friend even if he's a murderous crazy cultist apparently unfortunately united states to be very fond of using terror i mean they meet to using terrorist this is a very very dangerous group not because it has any hope of ever being in iran and truly there but they're very dangerous because they were cold they are just they do

not understand a person human rights and they're terrorists there's no way they can replace any government in iran and that i can i would bet on it it's not going to happen i don't think american plans but in america would like to tell them. so that they would continue their activities not because they have been able to we know pretty iranians to their side. the u.k. government has suspended exports of crowd control equipment like tear gas and rubber bullets to hong kong decisions been taken in response to the suspension of this month's protests in the chinese city state which saw millions demonstrating against the proposed extradition law but we remain very concerned with the situation in hong kong and i raise those concerns with the chief executive on the 12th of june i today urged the hong kong essay our government to establish a robust independent investigation into the violent scenes that we saw and we will

not issue any further export licenses for crowd control equipment to hong kong unless we are satisfied that concerns raised on human rights and fundamental freedoms have been fairly addressed. freeze on sales of police equipment to hong kong comes just 8 days after the u.k. was forced to suspend new weapons exports the saudi arabia over weirds alleged abuses in yemen look at the 2 cases apparent discrepancies here is charlotte. becomes just a week after the u.k. government also announced that it would not be allowing any new licenses of exports of arms sales to saudi arabia and to its coalition partners in the war in yemen that followed a decision by the court of appeal here in the u.k. that said that those arms sales had been a norful again citing possible violations when it comes to human rights despite that decision by the court and despite the fact that the government says it will

look at that decision the prime minister to resign made the u.k. government will look to appeal that decision we continue to operate one of the most robust arms export control regimes. take our responsibilities on arms export licensing very seriously we're disappointed that the court found against the government on one ground and we will be seeking permission to appeal this judgement so 2 cases of possible human rights violations let's took a look at the 2 together now let's start with hong kong 3 weeks of protests tear gas being used rubber bullets being used accusations of police brutality and dozens injured but not a single person killed as a direct result on the other hand you have the conflict in yemen which the saudi led coalition is involved in at the moment and what we have a close to 100000 deaths over 4 years the majority of them many say

are civilians so what's the difference between these 2 different scenarios on the ground well some would say what you really need to do is to follow the money and when you look at what the worth is of those sales to hong kong it's apparently only around $1800000.00 pounds to the u.k. economy on the other hand in yemen arms sales since 2015 are worth more than 4700000000 parents it's a huge difference. and some might question whether it's easier to take the moral high ground when there isn't much of an impact to the u.k. economy and that's what this comes down to and not really a stance when it comes to human rights violations political analyst chris bambery told us that humanitarian concerns take a back seat for the u.k. government when it comes to lucrative weapon sales britain along with western governments is very selective about those that it seeks out the situation with the

arms sales to the us so days very different because of the decision of the hong kong as one media by the british government in the question of the arms sales to saudi and its call which in our eyes in the war against yemen this forward a court were brought by the campaign against the armed street and indeed all and what we have here is the british being forced to the british government force to seize these arms sales to saudi arabia and the others but not wanting to do that one iota i think the british will do everything they can to overturn the court's decision and or to find a way around it because this alliance with saudi arabia is fundamentally important to the british to bring great britain p.l.c. they will do everything to maintain it even at the cost of 100000 yemeni dead. the german government says it's lost track of around $160.00 islamic state supporters who travel to syria and iraq to join the ranks of the terror group the mission from

the interior ministry which came in response to a freedom of information request has led to fears that some surviving fighters may try to return to germany with a story spiritual of. the best estimate suggests at least a 1000 people left germany to go enjoy an isis and following a question from a member of the bundestag to the interior ministry it's been revealed that in 160 cases those identified as extremists have disappeared without a trace occasionally such individuals could have succeeded in escaping and all disappearing in an attempt to alleviate fears of isis terrorists living among german society the federal government has said that they are convinced that it would be extremely unlikely that anyone who had traveled to join isis would be able to come back to germany and live or noticed however the m.p. that 1st raised concerns says she's not convinced considering the surest fragmented

protection of the ease external borders it is particularly worrying that the federal government has a patent taken no further measures to prevent the uncontrolled reentry of isis militants 2 thirds of those who have left the country have german citizenship this presents another issue what to do with those who want to return to germany well in the case of isis supporter of. currently being held in a kurdish jail his lawyers are suing the german government they say has a responsibility to bring him home from our point of view the federal government is constitutionally obliged to bring fabien back to germany it has not fulfilled this obligation for political reasons the lawyers maintain that there is a german constitutional obligation for the government to protect the fundamental rights of their citizens even when they are held in foreign nations and his younger brother who's location is unknown traveled from the central german city of castle

to syria to join isis in 2014 their father says he was assured that would be released if requested it however he believes the germans turning a blind eye to the sea. the german government would prefer it if my children on the other islamist would just disappear forever here's the thing it isn't that easy for the german government to intervene even if they wanted to and there is no indication that they really do germany currently has no diplomatic relations with syria and the federal government doesn't recognize the kurdish y p g group who is holding gary hart in the case of the at least 160 people who travelled from germany to join isis and remain unaccounted for or perlin doesn't know whether they are alive or dead whether they remain in the middle east or whether they've come back here and if they've come back here whether they pose any potential threat to society the german government and the security of the secret service us

intelligence services seem to know exactly how many people left germany to go to syria and to iraq and to try with one of those armed groups and suddenly they say now we lost track of them germany seems to have been sleeping officially they didn't say a lot about this and certainly they have no real policy about us this is why nothing is happening now and that discussion is being put forward through the media are through the facts on the ground they will be forced to do one thing or the other eventually and our society is not really aware and cannot really imagine what these people are might be up to we need a public discussion about this without stigmatizing without being a racist or islam or for big but the german society and the politicians have to be more realistic about the threats. but all trump the lashed out at facebook and twitter claiming that they deliberately repress his reach online and so after

the social media giant doubled their efforts to remove comments on account suspected of hate speech as well as possible bots. people are all democrats it's totally biased toward democrats if i announce tomorrow that i'm going to become a nice liberal democrat i would pick up 5 times more followers twitter is is just terrible what they do they don't let you get the word out they should be sued because what's happening with that guy is ickes ations of bias are also being leveled at google investigative group project veritas for lease the probe which claims the search engine is politically motivated the video of alleged google employees discussing policy was posted on you tube but was quickly removed from the platform includes an interview with the whistleblower as well as a secretly filmed conversation with a company executive. about furnace there's a. resource so it gives them the political. and

so they have to borrow through algorithms so they can good job of course they were and it is a great that. like a letter c. is very like saying you make a well these are. the resources that we do start with to take the example. of. the google executive films by project veritas says the claims are nonsense and that she's got no connection to the projects being discussed although admits imprecise language was used meanwhile the revelations have triggered heated debate in the u.s. congress. due to remove the video from project which appears to show senior google executive acknowledging politically motivated search manipulation within a did to influence election outcomes none of us here want on this side of this i

appreciate the concern and the desire to foster a robust debate look like they're talking about. very serious political bias in it and their intent to implement that bias in their job let me be clear this employee was recorded without her consent i believe these statements were taken out of context but the statements that i quoted from were full of complete statements that were not heeded so it is concerning when you see somebody who is an executive with google and who are more than one in that video by the way we do not allow anyone lower level our level to manipulate our products in that way in this project very this video which i did watch last night they allege that there are internal google documents which they put on the video and this is what it's sad it may be desirable to consider how we might helps this guy and the eat reach a more and equitable state via project intervention what does that mean every

robust set of guidelines to ensure that we're providing relevant trustworthy information we work with a set of readers around the world around the country to make sure that those search trader guidelines are followed those are transparent and available for you to read on the web all right well i personally don't think that answered the question at all he spoke to bring in a senior lecturer at the melbourne university of technology who believes algorithms have made google more influential than many nations. google has and this is the great paradox of it it's a system as a company it's bows its transparency to information but of course the reality is we do not know. the nature of its algorithms function in an open sense it's not entirely transparent where that is of course on a certain level of google's influence is greater in many ways than states and

governments themselves and that's rather dangerous if you believe in the notions other and accountable of accountable public institutions and so forth but that is the nature of information management it tends to produce interests of a specific type and that's what google tends to through its algorithm system employ . the world 1st facebook and france have struck a deal to hand over data relating to hate speech and possible terrorist activity from the online platform is artie's portfolio with more on that agreement. facebook has agreed to give up daughter to the french authorities in cases where it will help identify those uses on its platform that are engaging in hate speech this is the 1st time that the media giant has of me to hand over identifying information regarding its uses that are not related to violence or terrorism cases now france's digital affair is a minister has applauded the news this is huge news it means that the judicial

process will be able to run normally it's really very important they're only doing it for france now it follows a number of meetings that were held earlier in the month between the french president emmanuel necron and the founder of facebook mark zuckerberg and also these things between facebook's global affairs head and french ministers however a spokesperson for facebook says that this does not mean that the french authorities are being given carte blanche and that the media giants will scrutinize each and every request from the french authorities for basic information in criminal hate speech cases he also says that in those situations where they feel that the authorities request is too broad or inconsistent with human rights or in some way is legally and sound they will push back at the moment facebook uses artificial intelligence to identify hate speech and it defines hate speech as a direct attack on a person based on their ethnicity their national our region their sexual

orientation their gender they religious affiliation and they race. also is the struggle on 2 fronts spoke to the co-founder of a french media outlets who thinks the different mission of offensive needs clothes and scrutiny. the whole problem is about how we understand the terms hate speech and offensive content that's the problem if they want to include racist anti-semitic content content which is offensive to a certain sex or religion they will need to define it and understand what's behind it otherwise blasphemy will be included as an offense which is not so you need to be extremely careful about what will be included in the concepts of rhetoric that incite hatred and offensive content and who will decide this is a man your microphone said this will be a working group in which there will be a french controller and representatives from facebook they will work together to define it or. a top dutch engineering university has triggered

a massive debate over workplace discrimination and softer stablished an academic recruitment policy exclusively for women men will only be offered a job if no suitable female candidates can be found so attractive female employees a fellowship with r. and haven university of technology it will boost research funds 510-0000 euros the spend on research and mentoring institution hopes the filler around 150 positions over the next 5 years that's an attempt to correct what i haven't called a gender imbalance we attach great importance to equal respect and opportunities for women and men we are aware that we are suffering from an implicit gender bias we're now using the fact that plans to expand our academic staff considerably in the coming years can be used as a means to make a big step forward in one fell swoop we discussed the move with our guests media commentator gina loudon and political activist kate smyth way. inequality it's a self reciprocating process inequality inequality breeds inequality because if

young women don't see women in positions of power doing the jobs that they might want to do it slows their progress through without women at the top it's harder for women to break through so they're just taking this opportunity when it comes to discriminating specifically against men that's one problem i have with this but secondly and i think perhaps even even more more imperative is the fact that from this point on if a woman has a high powered job at that particular institution everyone's going to know that she had special advantages to get there honestly right now when i see men in positions of power i think most of them are only there because the system is totally set up to favor men i don't look around even you know the government big companies working but around the world when i see their board of directors and it's white guys white guys white guys white guys i don't think i but those are the 10 guys best qualified

to run this company as a woman in a male dominated field who has managed to do ok despite discrimination that i've definitely incurred as many women have i would still rather i would still rather fight and win then have a participation trophy which is what this is tantamount to yeah you know you have to you've done great but maybe you deserve to do brilliantly maybe you deserve an even better job than the one you've got maybe you deserve a better salary than the one you've got i think when i look around there are also women i know who've overcome obstacles but i don't feel like you know they've overcome obstacles but have they really reached their full full potential no you would have gone much further if you hadn't had to spend so much time and energy overcoming these obstacles but but i don't think that we do any groups anything in playing identity politics especially where we're shutting down an entire group of people just to give something to another group of people i think it sends a message that those people somehow weren't competent or nothing couldn't earn it. i think that's very dangerous for women i think it's very dangerous if you're

talking about you know hiring a doctor for a hospital i don't want to go to hospital and and look around and then not be a doctor but this is an academic institution and much as i love reading scientific research papers i have never woken up in the morning that i must have 600 milligrams of scientific research paper or i'm going to die this is not the kind of job which cannot possibly be left open for 6 months in fact it's very very common that these kind of academic positions are left open for a lot much longer than that but k k what if what if the research they're doing is for example on cancer or something and it's it's now postponed for 6 months how many people are going to die because that research didn't get out there in time because we were all obsessed with making sure once but special group was equally represented i say let the best people in but hold on a minute and let me answer that let's have the positions and i believe that women will be equally represented in that group because i think women are perfectly competent to get there we know when it comes to academic research that it's really really important to have a wide base of people doing that research and there are lots of instances actually

in the past where we've seen research being done by all male groups and when we look at the research when it's published we realize that it's not as widely a political as it could be because it's failed to take into account female viewpoints and female experiences so you know how many lives are being lost because research into all sorts of aspects of human life is being undertaken are just going soon to a lot international back at the top of next hour with the latest global headlines. are all the people that are.